RESICARD: East Paris network for the management of heart failure: absence of effect on mortality and rehospitalization in patients with severe heart failure admitted following severe decompensation.

Background: Heart failure presents a major public health problem due to its high prevalence and the increasing number of hospital admissions for this condition. A coordinated healthcare network involving general practitioners and cardiologists was set up in the east of Paris in an effort to improve the management and outcomes of patients with severe heart failure.

Aims: To reinforce patient education, improve compliance with medications and identify symptoms requiring treatment modification.

[Comparative study of the global left ventricular ejection fraction obtained by ECG gated perfusion MIBI and thallium scintigraphy].

The isotopic LVEF was measured by a planar method with injection of a product visualising the ventricular cavity. Perfusion was assessed by Thallium and sesta MIBI. The investigation of ischaemia and assessment of wall motion in the coronary patient, therefore, requires two isotopic methods.