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Mechanisms and Models in Heart Failure
- Source :
- Circulation. 111:2837-2849
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2005.
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Abstract
- Received August 25, 2004; revision received December 23, 2004; accepted January 19, 2005. Despite repeated attempts to develop a unifying hypothesis that explains the clinical syndrome of heart failure, no single conceptual paradigm for heart failure has withstood the test of time. Whereas clinicians initially viewed heart failure as a problem of excessive salt and water retention that was caused by abnormalities of renal blood flow (the “cardiorenal model”1), as physicians began to perform careful hemodynamic measurements, it also became apparent that heart failure was associated with a reduced cardiac output and excessive peripheral vasoconstriction. This latter realization led to the development of the “cardiocirculatory” or “hemodynamic” model for heart failure,1 wherein heart failure was thought to arise largely as a result of abnormalities of the pumping capacity of the heart and excessive peripheral vasoconstriction. However, although both the cardiorenal and cardiocirculatory models for heart failure explained the excessive salt and water retention that heart failure patients experience, neither of these models explained the relentless “disease progression” that occurs in this syndrome. Thus, although the cardiorenal models provided the rational basis for the use of diuretics to control the volume status of patients with heart failure, and the cardiocirculatory model provided the rational basis for the use of inotropes and intravenous vasodilators to augment cardiac output, these therapeutic strategies have not prevented heart failure from progressing, nor have they led to prolonged life for patients with moderate to severe heart failure.1,2⇓ In the present review we will summarize recent advances in the field of heart failure, with a focus on the new therapeutic strategies that have been developed for treating systolic heart failure. For a complete discussion on recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of diastolic heart failure, the interested reader is referred to several …
- Subjects :
- Heart Failure
Inotrope
medicine.medical_specialty
Cardiac output
Ventricular Remodeling
Heart disease
business.industry
Models, Cardiovascular
Diastolic heart failure
Hemodynamics
medicine.disease
Neurosecretory Systems
Receptors, Adrenergic
Physiology (medical)
Internal medicine
Heart failure
Renal blood flow
Disease Progression
Cardiology
Humans
Medicine
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Ventricular remodeling
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15244539 and 00097322
- Volume :
- 111
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Circulation
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....97983b1725cdb562302729eaa7ae40fc