Publications by authors named "Beatriz Sanchez-Sauce"
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- Sarcopenia, or low muscle strength, is a significant comorbidity in patients with acute heart failure (AHF), potentially worsening their prognosis, leading researchers to study its impact on these patients.
- The study analyzed 377 AHF patients and found that 82.23% had low muscle strength, which was associated with older age, cognitive impairment, and poorer functional status.
- Results indicated that patients with low muscle strength had higher rates of readmission and mortality, reinforcing the link between low muscle strength and worse outcomes in AHF.
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- Heart failure (HF) is a common and serious condition, especially in older adults, leading to many hospital admissions, with acute heart failure (AHF) as a primary diagnosis.
- Sodium-glucose cotransporter type 2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) can enhance survival and quality of life for HF patients, and this study aimed to evaluate their effects on readmission and mortality rates.
- In a study involving 750 patients, only 28% were treated with SGLT2is; those who received the medication were generally younger and had lower left ventricular ejection fractions, and they experienced lower mortality during their hospital admission.
Background: Most patients diagnosed with heart failure (HF) are older adults with multiple comorbidities. Multipathological patients constitute a population with common characteristics: greater clinical complexity and vulnerability, frailty, mortality, functional deterioration, polypharmacy, and poorer health-related quality of life with more dependency.
Objectives: To evaluate the clinical characteristics of hospitalized patients with acute heart failure and to determine the prognosis of patients with acute heart failure according to the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) scale.
Mortality and re-admission rates for decompensated acute heart failure (AHF) is increasing overall and risk stratification might be challenging. We sought to evaluate the prognostic role of systemic venous ultrasonography in patients hospitalized for AHF. We prospectively recruited 74 AHF patients with a NT-proBNP level above 500 pg/mL.
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- Heart failure is a common issue among the elderly, often leading to symptoms related to fluid congestion, which can be evaluated using clinical signs, imaging tests, and increasingly, ultrasound methods.
- This study examines how effective lung ultrasound and inferior vena cava (IVC) measurements can be in predicting mortality risk in elderly heart failure patients who are admitted to the hospital.
- Findings from the study involving 482 patients indicated that those with more than 6 B-lines on lung ultrasound and IVC collapsibility of less than 50% had significantly higher mortality rates within 30 days, highlighting the utility of these ultrasound techniques in assessing patient prognosis.
The prevalence and incidence of heart failure (HF) have been increasing in recent years as the population ages. These patients show a distinct profile of comorbidity, which makes their care more complex. In recent years, the PROFUND index, a specific tool for estimating the mortality rate at one year in pluripathology patients, has been developed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a common finding among patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and contributes to develop right ventricular systolic dysfunction (RVSD).
Aims: We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of Flowers and Horan electrocardiographic criteria to detect significant right ventricular pressure overload.
Methods: 123 patients were prospectively included.