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Imaging in Women with Heart Failure: Sex-specific Characteristics and Current Challenges

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents a significant threat to women's health. Heart failure (HF) is one CVD that still has an increasing incidence and about half of all cases involve women. HF is characterised by strong sex-specific features in aetiology, clinical manifestation and outcomes....

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Autores principales: Leo, Isabella, Nakou, Eleni, de Marvao, Antonio, Wong, Joyce, Bucciarelli-Ducci, Chiara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Radcliffe Cardiology 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9585642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36303591
http://dx.doi.org/10.15420/cfr.2022.17
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author Leo, Isabella
Nakou, Eleni
de Marvao, Antonio
Wong, Joyce
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description Cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents a significant threat to women's health. Heart failure (HF) is one CVD that still has an increasing incidence and about half of all cases involve women. HF is characterised by strong sex-specific features in aetiology, clinical manifestation and outcomes. Women are more likely to have hypertensive heart disease and HF with preserved ejection fraction, they experience worse quality of life but have a better overall survival rate. Women's hearts also have unique morphological characteristics that should be considered during cardiovascular assessment. It is important to understand and highlight these sex-specific features to be able to provide a tailored diagnostic approach and therapeutic management. The aim of this article is to review these aspects together with the challenges and the unique characteristics of different imaging modalities used for the diagnosis and follow-up of women with HF.
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spelling pubmed-95856422022-10-26 Imaging in Women with Heart Failure: Sex-specific Characteristics and Current Challenges Leo, Isabella Nakou, Eleni de Marvao, Antonio Wong, Joyce Bucciarelli-Ducci, Chiara Card Fail Rev SF on Imaging in HF Cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents a significant threat to women's health. Heart failure (HF) is one CVD that still has an increasing incidence and about half of all cases involve women. HF is characterised by strong sex-specific features in aetiology, clinical manifestation and outcomes. Women are more likely to have hypertensive heart disease and HF with preserved ejection fraction, they experience worse quality of life but have a better overall survival rate. Women's hearts also have unique morphological characteristics that should be considered during cardiovascular assessment. It is important to understand and highlight these sex-specific features to be able to provide a tailored diagnostic approach and therapeutic management. The aim of this article is to review these aspects together with the challenges and the unique characteristics of different imaging modalities used for the diagnosis and follow-up of women with HF. Radcliffe Cardiology 2022-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9585642/ /pubmed/36303591 http://dx.doi.org/10.15420/cfr.2022.17 Text en Copyright © 2022, Radcliffe Cardiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This work is open access under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 License which allows users to copy, redistribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is cited correctly.
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