Heart Failure Epidemiology

Report summarizes heart failure epidemiology study findings from Brigham and Women's Hospital

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, March 4th, 2010

A new study, 'Clinical predictors of hepatic fibrosis in chronic advanced heart failure,' is now available. "The clinical features associated with liver disease in patients with advanced heart failure are poorly defined. We investigated the histopathologic spectrum of liver disease in a contemporary population with heart failure to identify the clinical correlates of hepatic fibrosis," scientists in the United States report.

"We identified 61 patients with advanced heart failure undergoing evaluation for ventricular assist device or cardiac transplantation from 1995 to 2006, who had liver tissue obtained during the same time period. Electronic medical records were...

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