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Heart Failure Secondary To A Snake Bite. The Intensivist's Vision: Case Report, Andrés Alirio Restrepo Bastidas, Mateo Aguirre Flórez, Jaime Andrés Hoyos Muñoz, Melissa Gonzales Ramírez, David Ricardo Echeverry Piedrahita
Heart Failure Secondary To A Snake Bite. The Intensivist's Vision: Case Report, Andrés Alirio Restrepo Bastidas, Mateo Aguirre Flórez, Jaime Andrés Hoyos Muñoz, Melissa Gonzales Ramírez, David Ricardo Echeverry Piedrahita
Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana
Background: Ophidic accident is a neglected disease that affects tropical countries. Latin America is the second region after Africa, with the most cases worldwide. Local lesions accompany its clinical course up to systemic affectations such as renal, hematological, and neurological lesions. Cardiac complications are rare, especially in patients who do not have cardiovascular risk factors. There are reports of acute myocardial infarction, but there is little information about heart failure due to Bothrops spp. Case report: We present the case of a 25-year-old man without cardiovascular risk factors who was admitted to the intensive care unit and developed heart failure …
The Difficult Pathway Of Natriuretic Peptides In Heart Failure, Omar Augusto Diaz Cucho
The Difficult Pathway Of Natriuretic Peptides In Heart Failure, Omar Augusto Diaz Cucho
Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana
This review is carried out on the role of natriuretic peptides and attempts to use them properly, as a treatment, their functioning in the pathophysiology of heart failure with depressed systolic function was better understood. It is recounts its journey through multiple failed studies, explaining the reasons for its failures, until it achieved the desired success with the combination of sacubitril/valsartan. This produced a paradigm shift in the management of heart failure.