TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Acute Heart Failure
A1  - Whelan, Lori
A2  - Cydulka, Rita K.
A2  - Fitch, Michael T.
A2  - Joing, Scott A.
A2  - Wang, Vincent J.
A2  - Cline, David M.
A2  - Ma, O. John
PY  - 2017
T2  - Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine Manual, 8e
AB  - Acute  heart  failure  covers  a  wide  spectrum  of  illness,  with  symptoms  ranging  from  a  gradual  increase  in  leg  swelling,  shortness  of  breath,  or  decreased  exercise  tolerance  to  the  abrupt  onset  of  pulmonary  edema  and  respiratory  distress.  While  the  term  congestive  heart  failure  was  historically  used  to  describe  volume  overload,  current  terminology  describes  patients  as  having  acute  heart  failure  when  they  present  with  an  acute  exacerbation  of  chronic  heart  failure  or  when  new-onset  heart  failure  is  diagnosed.  Heart  failure  has  a  poor  prognosis  with  an  approximately  50%  mortality  rate  within  5  years  of  initial  diagnosis.  The  most  common  precipitating  factors  of  acute  heart  failure  are  atrial  fibrillation,  acute  myocardial  infarction  or  ischemia,  discontinuation  of  medications  (diuretics),  increased  sodium  load,  drugs  that  impair  myocardial  function,  and  physical  overexertion.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/18
UR  - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1143139979
ER  -