Case 4 – A 79-Year-Old Man with Congestive Heart Failure Due to Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
Clinical Aspects
The patient JAB, a 79-year-old previous smoker and alcoholic man residing in São Paulo, attended an outpatient clinic at InCor due to heart failure which worsened progressively since 2012, requiring hospitalization for treatment.
Heart failure is a systemic and complex clinical syndrome, defined as a cardiac dysfunction that causes the blood supply to be insufficient to meet tissular metabolic demands, in the presence of a normal venous return, or which only meets the demands with high filling pressure.
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