title: Severe heart failure: a focus on the quality of care.
abstract: Heart failure usually originates from conditions such as coronary heart disease, valvular disease, hypertension or cardiomyopathy. Heart failure may develop after several heart attacks as a result of extensive myocardial damage. Despite many advances in treatment for heart disease, chronic heart failure is a terminal condition with a death rate as high as that for many malignant tumours.
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authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Linden
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010166:Palliative Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D011788:Quality of Life