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ReviewJournal of cardiovascular development and disease2021

Cognitive Impairment in Acute Heart Failure: Narrative Review.

Ioannis Ventoulis, Angelos Arfaras-Melainis, John Parissis, Eftihia Polyzogopoulou

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Review in Journal of cardiovascular development and disease, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ioannis VentoulisDepartment of Occupational Therapy, University of Western Macedonia, 50200 Ptolemaida, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7572-4527
Angelos Arfaras-MelainisHeart Failure Unit and University Clinic of Emergency Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, 12462 Athens, Greece.
John ParissisHeart Failure Unit and University Clinic of Emergency Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Eftihia PolyzogopoulouHeart Failure Unit and University Clinic of Emergency Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, 12462 Athens, Greece.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRUniversity of Western Macedonia · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cognitive impairment (CI) represents a common but often veiled comorbidity in patients with acute heart failure (AHF) that deserves more clinical attention. In the AHF setting, it manifests as varying degrees of deficits in one or more cognitive domains across a wide spectrum ranging from mild CI to severe global neurocognitive disorder. On the basis of the significant negative implications of CI on quality of life and its overwhelming association with poor outcomes, there is a compelling need for establishment of detailed consensus guidelines on cognitive screening methods to be systematically implemented in the population of patients with heart failure (HF). Since limited attention has been drawn exclusively on the field of CI in AHF thus far, the present narrative review aims to shed further light on the topic. The underlying pathophysiological mechanisms of CI in AHF remain poorly understood and seem to be multifactorial. Different pathophysiological pathways may come into play, depending on the clinical phenotype of AHF. There is some evidence that cognitive decline closely follows the perturbations incurred across the long-term disease trajectory of HF, both along the time course of stable chronic HF as well as during episodes of HF exacerbation. CI in AHF remains a rather under recognized scientific field that poses many challenges, since there are still many unresolved issues regarding cognitive changes in patients hospitalized with AHF that need to be thoroughly addressed.

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acute heart failurecardiocerebral syndromecognitive impairmentepidemiologyneurocognitive disorderpathophysiological mechanismsscreening tools

Identifiers

PMID34940539
PMCPMC8703678
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