[Prognosis of hospital mortality in patients with acute decompensation of chronic heart failure].

We assessed prognostic value of clinical-laboratory and instrumental parameters in 100 patients with acute decompensation of chronic heart failure (CHF) in relation to hospital mortality. Independent predictors of lethal outcome in patients with acute decompensation of CHF were low systolic arterial pressure at admission (odds ratio [OR] 1.03, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.

[Immunoinflammatory changes (myocarditis?) in chronic heart failure in alcoholic patients].

Aim: To estimate the contribution of immuno-inflammatory changes to the formation of clinical and hemodynamic features in alcoholic patients with chronic heart failure (CHF).

Subjects And Methods: Forty-five males with CHF in the presence of alcohol-induced heart damage (AIHD) who had been admitted to therapeutic units for decompensated heart failure were examined. A control group consisted of 20 men with the CHF severity comparable with the NYHA classification in the presence of prior myocardial infarction.

[Hypotension followed the first dose of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor in patients with heart failure (a multicenter clinical trial)].

Aim: To study the hypotensive effect of the first dose in administration of perindopril and enalapril in patients with chronic cardiac failure (CCF).

Material And Methods: The trial enrolled 213 patients with CCF of functional class II-III (mean age 57 +/- 1.4 years, 155 males and 58 females).