title: [Anemia in chronic heart failure].
abstract: Anemia is one of the most common comorbidities in patients with decompensated chronic heart failure admitted to the Internal Medicine Ward. However, although there is evidence supporting its treatment to improve the functional capacity of the patients and to reduce the new admissions rate, the clinical practice guidelines do not provide any directives regarding its approach. This is an ideal clinical problem for the internist due to its multifactorial origin and the comprehensive point of view needed to approach the group of syndromes that occur in these patients (anemia, heart failure, geriatric syndromes, diabetes, etc.) The choice of treatment strategy, if such treatment is decided, should always begin after correcting the congestive signs in the outpatient with optimal treatment of heart failure.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Municipal de Badalona, Barcelona, España. jgrau@bsa.cat
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grau-Amorós
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Formiga
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Urrutia
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000465:Algorithms; D000740:Anemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis