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How do blood volume profiles change over time in clinically compensated patients with chronic heart failure on stable medical therapy?
How do blood volume profiles change over time in clinically compensated patients with chronic heart failure on stable medical therapy?
Blood volume profiles in clinically compensated heart failure patients remain stable over 6 months, indicating that chronic volume expansion persists despite clinical stability.
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Supports stable long-term volume management without frequent reassessment in compensated HF; leaves open volume homeostasis mechanisms.
The novel findings of this study demonstrate that blood volume profiles while highly variable in clinically compensated patients with HF on stable medical therapy do not change substantially over a 6-mo period regardless of baseline expanded or normal blood volumes. This lack of change in volume profiles particularly from an expanded blood volume has implications for long-term volume management and also for how we understand the pathophysiology of volume homeostasis in chronic HF.
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