Pronóstico a corto plazo en pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca congestiva y función sistólica del ventrículo izquierdo normal. / [Short-term prognosis in patients with congestive heart failure and normal left ventricular systolic function]

ABSTRACT

Congestive heart failure (CHF) has been traditionally associated with impairment of the left ventricular systolic function (LVSF). There are few clinical assays that describe the prognosis of patients with CHF and intact LVSF. The aims of this prospective assay are to describe a group of 70 patients admitted to an internal medicine department with the clinical syndrome of CHF, to determine the contractile state of the left ventricle with echocardiography and to establish the short term prognosis. There were 39 males and 31 females with a mean age of 76.4. The LVSF was impaired in 38 (54.3