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Unstable Heart Failure

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Unstable heart failure represents the clinical state of progressively worsening or decompensated heart failure, which, if not improved within a reasonable time (usually minutes to hours), often evolves into markedly symptomatic heart failure, cardiovascular collapse, and shock or death. The clinical settings include, among others, the patient who arrives in the emergency room in acute pulmonary edema, the patient with postinfarction cardiogenic shock, the patient who cannot be weaned from cardiopulmonary bypass after cardiac surgery, or the chronic heart failure patient who is experiencing a rather abrupt worsening of symptoms. Most patients with unstable heart failure must be approached with a certain sense of urgency.

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  1. Cardiovascular Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Wilson S. Colucci MD (Professor of Medicine, Chief) (Professor of Medicine, Chief)

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Leier, C.V., Orsinelli, D.A. (2005). Unstable Heart Failure. In: Colucci, W.S. (eds) Atlas of HEART FAILURE. Current Medicine Group, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4558-0_9

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