EDUCATION IN HEART
Heart failure
Surgery for heart failure
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Stephen Large
Papworth Hospital, Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire, CB3 8RE UK; stephen.large@papworth.nhs.uk
Keywords: heart failure; surgery
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The failing heart creates a huge health care problem. It is common and becomes more so with age. Recognising our aging population, it is understandable that the prevalence of heart failure is increasing1 in the UK and is the most common diagnostic related group at hospital discharge. It is the primary or secondary diagnosis in about 1% of the population and consumes a similar proportion of the country’s gross domestic product every year. So how do we recognise this monster? The 2005 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guideline update for the diagnosis and management of chronic heart failure in the adult2 defines heart failure as: "a complex clinical syndrome that can result from any structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ability of the ventricle to fill with or eject blood".
CLASSIFICATION OF HEART FAILURE
It is a progressive disorder and to capture this the ACC/AHA has proposed a
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