[Analysis of causes of death of patients with chronic circulatory insufficiency].
The presented analysis is based on the case reports of 166 patients who had been treated in the A. L. Myasnikov Cardiology Institute, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, for rheumatic heart diseases (97), postinfarction cardiosclerosis (35), myocardiopathies (24) complicated by Stage III or IIB circulatory insufficiency. Chronic circulatory insufficiency free of complications was the cause of death of only 1/3 of the mortality cases. The rest of the patients' death was considered to be caused by thromboembolism, predominantly to the pulmonary artery system, pneumonias, haemorrhages from acute and subacute gastric ulcers, etc. The factors most frequently complicating the chronic circulatory insufficiency in patients suffering either from heart diseases, cardiosclerosis, or myocardiopathy, were thromboembolisms.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001775:Blood Circulation; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*
Analiz prichin smerti bol'nykh s khronicheskoĭ nedostatochnost'iu krovoobrashcheniia.