Background: Frailty is highly prevalent in acute heart failure (AHF), yet whether it is more strongly associated with all-cause mortality or with non-fatal heart-failure events, and whether it adds information beyond cardiac severity, is seldom examined. Methods: In a prospective single-center registry of 530 consecuti...
G. Aletras, M. Marketou, M. Bachlitzanaki et al.· Medicina· 0 citations
Background: Valvular heart disease frequently accompanies acute heart failure (AHF), yet most studies address single valve lesions, and the prognostic weight of concurrent multivalvular involvement is less well defined. We examined the prevalence of single- and multi-valve disease and its relationship with one-year mor...
G. Aletras, Stylianos Fiflis, T. Georgopoulou et al.· Medical Science· 1 citation
Background: The prognostic relevance of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) categories in acute heart failure (AHF) remains debated. We compared the clinical phenotype of patients hospitalized for AHF with preserved (LVEF ≥ 50%) versus reduced (LVEF < 50%) ejection fraction (EF), and compared the prognostic influ...
G. Aletras, K. Stylianou, M. Marketou et al.· Journal of Cardiovascular De...· 1 citation
