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Potentially inappropriate prescriptions are associated with adverse drug events, increased morbi-mortality and health-care costs, and poorer quality of life. Due to polymorbidity and polypharmacy, it is common among the elderly. Explicit indicators to detect inappropriate prescriptions were developed in geriatrics. The STOPP/START set of criteria is a substantial and validated help for the practitioners...
Congestive heart failure generally represents combined right- and left-sided heart failure, which provokes pulmonary congestion and peripheral oedema. The heart is subject to significant changes: fibrosis affects the electrical and mechanical functioning of the organ and the ventricular function gradually deteriorates eventually leading to death. The different available treatments help to slow down...