Articles tagged ‘chronic heart failure’

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a complex and lethal clinical syndrome accounting for an increasing number of Australian hospital admissions and more than 2,700 deaths in Australia in 2008, according to a recent update to the National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of chronic heart failure in Australia.¹

A new study published in the journal Clinical Cardiology¹ reveals that in men with chronic heart failure, cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) improves patients’ libido, erectile dysfunction, and sexual performance. Royal Brompton Hospital cardiologists comment on the paper to Arrhythmia Watch.

NICE is in the process of updating its clinical guideline on the management of chronic heart failure in adults and has now published its draft recommendations for public consultation. Since the original guideline was published in 2003, new high-quality evidence from randomised controlled trials in diagnosis, treatment and monitoring have been published. This partial update will ensure that the recommendations take into account the new evidence available.