ReviewCurrent heart failure reports2014
Comorbidity of heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: more than coincidence.
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- Effects of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in EMPHASIS-HF and RALES.European journal of heart failure · 2022Trial
- Mapping the Comorbidome in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Prevalence and Mortality Risk in a Colombian Cohort.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- How nurses address psychosocial needs in patients with advanced heart or lung failure: a qualitative interview study.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- COPD-Asthma-Heart Failure Overlap: Optimizing Bronchodilators and ICS in a High-Risk Triad.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2026Review
- Lung function impairment and risk of incident heart failure: the NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study.European heart journal · 2022Article
- Responses to incremental exercise and the impact of the coexistence of HF and COPD on exercise capacity: a follow-up study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Implications of Managing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Cardiovascular Diseases.Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases · 2021Article
- [Dyspnea : A challenging symptom in the primary care setting].Der Internist · 2020Review
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- Prognostic influence of prior chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in patients admitted for their first episode of acute heart failure.Internal and emergency medicine · 2018Article
- Impact of airflow limitation in chronic heart failure.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2017Article
- Practical approach on frail older patients attended for acute heart failure.International journal of cardiology · 2016Review
- Diagnostic and prognostic utility of mid-expiratory flow rate in older community-dwelling persons with respiratory symptoms, but without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2015Article
- Long term effects of an integrated care intervention on hospital utilization in patients with severe COPD: a single centre controlled study.Respiratory research · 2015Article
- Influence of heart failure on resting lung volumes in patients with COPD.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e TisilogiaArticle
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Abstract
Heart failure and COPD are very common in the elderly. As both syndromes share common risk factors, such as tobacco smoking, and pathophysiological pathways, including systemic inflammation and activation of the neurohumoral system, they frequently coincide. Because of the similar clinical presentation, diagnoses of COPD in the presence of heart failure may be difficult. If spirometry is performed, caution should be taken in the interpretation of the data, as heart failure by itself (in the absence of true COPD) may exert restrictive as well as obstructive alterations in pulmonary function testing. Once COPD is established, concurrent heart failure may impact on the accurate management of these patients as severity grading of COPD could easily be overrated, and thus there is a risk of overuse of pulmonary medication, with the risk of causing cardiac side-effects. The present review focuses on the pathophysiological interrelation of comorbid COPD and heart failure, and provides practical help on how to deal with both diseases in daily practice.
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