Affiliation:
1. National Medical Research Center for Therapy and Preventive Medicine
Abstract
Heart failure (HF) is a prognostically unfavorable complication of cardiovascular diseases. The presented case report describes the management of a patient with severe progressive biventricular HF due to myocarditis, refractory to therapy and requiring heart transplantation. Issues of timely diagnosis of HF and the feasibility of radical surgical treatment are discussed.
Subject
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Education