Evaluation of heart failure patients: Objective parameters to assess functional capacity
- 1 June 1996
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Clinical Cardiology
- Vol. 19 (6), 455-460
- https://doi.org/10.1002/clc.4960190603
Abstract
Measures of disease severity used in the evaluation of patients with heart failure include survival data, the New York Heart Association classification, ejection fraction, functional assessments, exercise protocols, rest and exercise hemodynamic data, and biochemical parameters including catecholamine levels and serum sodium. Clinicians must integrate these multiple variables into an overall assessment. An overview of the clinical application of these techniques in the evaluation and treatment of patients with heart failure is presented.Keywords
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