Problems Of Medication Adherence, And Their Impact On The Quality Of Life In Patients With Chronic Systolic Heart Failure

Volume 26, Number 2 (2016)

Raimondas Kubilius, Ieva Česnavičiūtė, Laura Pereckaitė, Algirdas Rudys Abstract Objective. To determine the problems of medication adherence, and their impact on the quality and fullness of life in patients with chronic systolic heart failure. Materials and methods. Our research was executed in the Clinic of Cardiology at Kaunas Clinics of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.…

Dose Up-Titration Of Neurohormone Blockers For Chronic Heart Failure Treatment In Real Clinical Practice: Data From Single University Centre

Volume 25, Number 6 (2015)

Aušra Kavoliūnienė, Goda Maciulevičiūtė, Rasa Sadeckaitė, Kristina Vasiljevaitė Abstract Objective. To describe treatment peculiarities of ambulatory chronic heart failure patients’ in one of Lithuania’s university centres, participating in European Society of Cardiology EURObservation Research Programme (EORP) Heart Failure Long- Term Registry. Methods. 240 ambulatory patients with chronic heart failure were entered in European Society of…

THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE DECOMPENSATED HEART FAILURE, RESISTANT TO DIURETICS WITH NESIRITIDE: A CLINICAL CASE

Volume 21, Number 5(77) (2011)

Pranas Šerpytis Abstract Summary Despite modern treatment and diagnostics methods, patients suffering from acute decompensated heart failure 60 day mortality rate remains at 9,6%, furthermore, the hospitalization of patients with such diagnosis remains one of the most expensive. Nesiritide (recombinant human B-type natriuretic peptide) is a comparatively new drug for intravenous infusions, indicated for patients…