Evidence-based On-call

internal medicine

Congestive heart failure

Prevalence
Causes
Clinical features
Differential diagnosis
Investigations
Therapy
Prevention
Prognosis

Prognosis

Arterial thromboembolic events are rare. ^b

Why?

Roughly 2% of patients with chronic heart failure have arterial thromboembolic events per year. ^b

Expiry date: June 2003
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Author	CM Ball
Reviewer	B Lee
CAT Writers	CM Ball , CJ Wotton , A Yates