fallo cardiaco

15:57 Jul 19, 2006 

Thank you David. My own medical dictionaries provide slighly contradictory definitions and context probably makes the most sense. Good luck with it.

21:04 Jul 17, 2006 

Perhaps the difference is as simple as "heart failure" (an occurence) and "congestive heart failure" (a chronic condition). I'll add notes to my answer.

08:32 Jul 17, 2006 

Thanks for all the feedback, help. The drug is bisoprolol and the sentence is from the section of the information leaflet on interactions with other drugs (in this case Dihydropyridine-type calcium antagonists), which can cause the "fallo cardiaco".

I don't think "heart failure" can be the answer, because a translation "could produce heart failure in patients with heart failure" doesn't sound quite right. If the disease is "heart failure" then I think "fallo cardiaco" must be "heart attack".

03:11 Jul 15, 2006 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=...
Disculpa tantos mensajes, el espacio que dan para escribir es muy limitado.
Saludos!! :) Laura.

03:09 Jul 15, 2006 

Y así dice el original: CONCLUSIONS. The addition of enalapril to conventional therapy significantly reduced mortality and hospitalizations for heart failure in patients with chronic congestive heart failure and reduced ejection fractions. N Engl J Med.

03:08 Jul 15, 2006 

03:07 Jul 15, 2006 

N Engl J Med 1991; 325(5): 293-302.
Conclusión. La adición de enalapril al tratamiento convencional reduce la mortalidad y las hospitalizaciones por fallo cardiaco en pacientes con insuficiencia cardiaca crónica sintomática.

02:09 Jul 15, 2006 

Hola David :). Una pregunta: El trabajo investigativo, es originalmente en español ó en inglés? Por casualidad se trata de un reporte sobre Enalapril?

00:33 Jul 14, 2006 

Medline: Heart failure, (or congestive heart failure) is a disorder in which the heart loses its ability to pump blood efficiently. The term "heart failure" should not be confused with cardiac arrest, a situation in which the heart actually stops beating.

00:25 Jul 14, 2006 

From Roche website Fallo cardiaco no es una enfermedad si no el resultado de una serie de enfermedades...En un fallo cardiaco, la función de bombeo va deteriorandose gradualmente hasta que no es capaz de suplir los requerimientos metabólicos del organismo

21:39 Jul 13, 2006 

I think they mean "cardiac arrest" by "fallo cardiaco" in this case, but am not an expert in the field( I'm just a translator).