Cardiovascular · UKMLA & AKT

Heart failure

A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test. Below are the key points to recognise heart failure — the full SA Note notes add investigations, management, complications and 10 practice questions.

Key high-yield points

  • Heart failure (HF) - clinical syndrome where the heart cannot generate sufficient cardiac output to meet metabolic demands, or only does so at the cost of elevated filling pressures
  • UK prevalence 1-2%; mean age at diagnosis 75 years; ~50% dead within 5 years (comparable to malignancy)

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