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Incidence, clinical and etiologic features, and outcomes of advanced chronic heart failure: the EPICAL study

Faiez Zannad, MD, PhD^* , Serge Briancon, MD, Yves Juilliere, MD^*, Paul-Michel Mertes, MD^*, Jean-Pierre Villemot, MD^*, François Alla, MD, Jean-Marc Virion, MSc and the EPICAL Investigators

^* Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Departments, Nancy, France
Centre d’Investigation Clinique (CIC) INSERM-CHU, Nancy, France
Service d’Informatique Médicale Epidémiologie et Statistiques (SIMES), Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire, Nancy, France

View larger version (23K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Incidence of advanced congestive heart failure according to age and gender.

View larger version (23K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Survival of patients with advanced congestive heart failure (including index hospitalization mortality) (Censorship is represented by vertical bars).

View larger version (23K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Hospital readmission-free survival in patients with advanced congestive heart failure (censorship is represented by vertical bars).