Heart Failure: Focus on Management and Prognosis

Dear Colleagues,

Heart failure has a prevalence of 1–2% in the general population, but this rises to 20% in patients over 80 years old. Considering the aging of the population and the improvements in cardiology care, these numbers are destined to rise. Heart failure is responsible for 5–10% of all hospitalizations and is the most frequent cause of hospitalization in patients over 65 years old in Europe. In total, 75% of the costs of this pathology are related to hospitalization and each new heart failure event increases the risk of new hospitalization and patient mortality.

From these considerations, the need to strengthen the management of patients (as hospitals are not able to manage this number of patients), to reduce the costs of the pathology and to try to manage patients in a preclinical phase, before they reach hospitalization, arises. Telemedicine can be very useful in this regard to enable integrated patient management between the hospital and the general practitioner, monitor the patient and prevent hospitalizations, and educate the patient in recognizing and managing symptoms.

Dr. Massimiliano Maines
Guest Editor

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