Cardiac insufficiency in elderly patients. A non-solve problem.

• Main Author: Angel Julio Romero Cabrera
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos 2004-04-01
• Series: Medisur
• Subjects: cardiopatías; bajo gasto cardíaco; anciano
• Online Access: http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/46

Cardiac insufficiency is a clinical syndrome that is known since ancient times – more than 2000 years – in the pre Christian civilisation as Egypt, Greece and Old Rome where the digital plant was used as a remedy for this disease. As a syndrome it constitutes a point of convergence and many times the final stage of cardiac diseases but as it is known, cardiac insufficiency can be produced by non- cardiac disorders. This review is developed due to the necessity to update the guides about an unsolved problem of high frequency and a bad prognosis as well as to join the clinical practice with updated clinical evidence and to inform the most relevant aspects about cardiac insufficiency in the last few years. <strong><br /></strong>