Course and prognosis in patients > or = 70 years of age with congestive heart failure and normal versus abnormal left ventricular ejection fraction

Am J Cardiol. 1997 Jan 15;79(2):216-9. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(96)00719-9.

Abstract

In this study of 501 patients aged > or =70 years hospitalized with congestive heart failure, 34.1% had normal left ventricular systolic function. Reduced left ventricular ejection fraction was an independent predictor of an adverse prognosis at 3 months but not at 1 year.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Cohort Studies
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Forecasting
  • Heart Failure / physiopathology*
  • Hospitalization
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myocardial Contraction
  • Patient Readmission
  • Prognosis
  • Prospective Studies
  • Stroke Volume / physiology*
  • Survival Rate
  • Systole
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / physiopathology*
  • Ventricular Function, Left / physiology*