Dimitrios Farmakis, Panagiotis Simitsis, Vasiliki Bistola, Filippos Triposkiadis, Ignatios Ikonomidis, Spyridon Katsanos, George Bakosis, Erifili Hatziagelaki, John Lekakis, Alexandre Mebazaa, John Parissis
BACKGROUND: Heart failure with mid-range left ventricular ejection fraction (HFmrEF) is a poorly characterized population as it has been studied either in the context of HF with reduced (HFrEF) or preserved (HFpEF) left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) depending on applied LVEF cutoffs. We sought to investigate the clinical profile, in-hospital management, and short-term outcome of HFmrEF patients in comparison with those with HFrEF or HFpEF in a large acute HF cohort. METHODS AND RESULTS: The Acute Heart Failure Global Registry of Standard Treatment (ALARM-HF) included 4953 patients hospitalized for HF in nine countries in Europe, Latin America, and Australia...
May 2017: Clinical Research in Cardiology: Official Journal of the German Cardiac Society