Stage B, A Pre-cursor to Heart Failure, Part II, An Issue of Heart Failure Clinics

Download or read book Stage B, A Pre-cursor to Heart Failure, Part II, An Issue of Heart Failure Clinics written by Jay N. Cohn and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2012-04-28 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the joint American College of Cardiology /American Heart Association classification system, Stage B heart failure refers to patients with structural heart disease but no symptoms of heart failure. Preventing progression of heart failure in Stage B patients is a central concern to heart failure specialists, so two issues have been devoted to this topic. Part II focuses on screening to identify patients with Stage B HF and monitoring and therapeutic approaches to patients with a diagnosis of Stage B HF.