Why the study?
What is the etiology of unexplained heart failure in the elderly?
What is the etiology of unexplained heart failure in the elderly?
The authors aim to clarify the etiology of unexplained heart failure in the elderly, challenging the assumption that it is invariably due to myocardial ischemia.
Questions ischemic primacy in unexplained elderly HF; leaves open alternative etiologies for targeted investigation.
Failure of the heart is frequent in old people. The clinician often assumes that myocardial ischmmia is invariably a factor in its wtiology Faced with this common clinical problem we decided to collect data about such cases, in the hope of clari- fying their etiology.
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