Fast Five Quiz: Can You Confront Heart Failure?

Specific underlying factors cause various forms of heart failure, such as systolic heart failure (most commonly, left ventricular [LV] systolic dysfunction), heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), acute heart failure, high-output heart failure, and right heart failure.

Underlying causes of systolic heart failure include the following:

• Coronary artery disease

• Diabetes mellitus

• Hypertension

• Valvular heart disease (stenosis or regurgitant lesions)

• Arrhythmia (supraventricular or ventricular)

• Infections and inflammation (myocarditis)

• Peripartum cardiomyopathy

• Congenital heart disease

• Drugs (either recreational, such as alcohol and cocaine, or therapeutic drugs with cardiac side effects, such as doxorubicin)

• Idiopathic cardiomyopathy

• Rare conditions (endocrine abnormalities, rheumatologic disease, neuromuscular conditions)

Learn more about the etiology of heart failure.

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Cite this: Wai Hong Wilson Tang, Yasmine S. Ali. Fast Five Quiz: Can You Confront Heart Failure? - Medscape - May 19, 2021.