Prevalence, Related Factors and Association of Left Bundle Branch Block With Prognosis in Patients With Acute Heart Failure: a Simultaneous Analysis in 3 Independent Cohorts.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence, characteristics and association with prognosis of left bundle branch block (LBBB) in 3 different cohorts of patients with acute heart failure (AHF).

Methods And Results: We retrospectively analyzed 12,950 patients with AHF who were included in the EAHFE (Epidemiology Acute Heart Failure Emergency), RICA (National Heart Failure Registry of the Spanish Internal Medicine Society), and BASEL-V (Basics in Acute Shortness of Breath Evaluation of Switzerland) registries. We independently analyzed the relationship between baseline and clinical characteristics and the presence of LBBB and the potential association of LBBB with 1-year all-cause mortality and a 90-day postdischarge combined endpoint (Emergency Department reconsultation, hospitalization or death).

Prognostic utility of bedside lung ultrasound before discharge in patients with acute heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Background And Objective: The utility of lung ultrasound as a prognostic tool for patients with acute heart failure is well known, but most studies have been conducted in mixed groups of patients with preserved and reduced ejection fraction. While some subgroup analysis suggests that lung ultrasound is useful regardless of ejection fraction, no specific studies have addressed this question. Our objective is to determine the utility of bedside lung ultrasound as a prognostic tool for patients with preserved ejection fraction, acute heart failure.

[Use of lung ultrasound as a prognostic tool in outpatients with heart failure].

Objectives: To assess the prognostic value of lung ultrasound for patients with chronic heart failure.

Methods: Prospective observational cohort study, in which a lung ultrasound was performed on 54 patients at a heart failure outpatient consultation. Ultrasonography was classified as positive or negative for ultrasound interstitial syndrome depending on the number of B lines observed.

[Red cell distribution width and mortality following hospital discharge in patients over 70 years of age].

Background And Objective: To examine whether red cell distribution width (RDW) performs as a mortality predictor after hospital discharge in patients over 70 years of age and if its prognostic power is superior to other laboratory parameters.

Patients And Methods: Longitudinal and prospective study of 426 patients admitted to the Internal Medicine Department who survived hospitalization. Sociodemographic and comorbidity factors, functional and cognitive status as well as disease parameters causing admission (diagnosis, analytical parameters, length of stay) were collected.

Place of residence before hospital admission and mortality at 12-months in Spanish patients aged 70 years or older.

Aim: Hospitalization of elderly people is often followed by high mortality rates. The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of prior residence on 1-year mortality after hospital discharge in patients aged 70 years and over.

Methods: This was a prospective observational cohort study.

[Incidence of pneumonia in HIV-infected patients in the highly active antiretroviral therapy era].

Background And Objective: There is scant data comparing the incidence of pneumonia in the community and in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) population in highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) era.

Patients And Method: Prospective study during 18 months. Data were obtained by the means of the electronic clinical record.