Publications by authors named "Juan Igor Molina-Puente"
Article Synopsis
- 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.
Article Synopsis
- 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.