Clinics and Practice
Beyond Ejection Fraction: Inflammatory Risk and Mortality in Heart Failure
By Bozhidar Krastev, Natalia Spasova, Desislava Somleva and 4 others.
Abstract
Background
Inflammation is increasingly recognized as an important contributor to the progression of heart failure and may partly explain differences in prognosis beyond conventional clinical characteristics. Simple laboratory-based inflammatory indices may offer additional prognostic information, but their value across different heart failure phenotypes remains uncertain.