Red cell distribution width - a potential new marker of acute decompensation of chronic heart failure

• Elizaveta G. Skorodumova
• Kostenko V.A.
• Elena A. Skorodumova
• Rysev A.V.

AbstractAcute decompensation of chronic heart failure is accompanied by the development of a number of adaptive and maladaptive changes in the cardiovascular system, available through the definition of clinical and anamnestic and laboratory and instrumental examination. The paper deals with the changes detected by electro-, echocardiographic and biochemical studies in patients with chronic heart failure, high functional class, in particular, especially eccentric remodeling, arrhythmias and conduction mioendokrine cardiomyocytes function in conjunction with the wide distribution of red blood cells. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of the red cell distribution width, as a predictor of adverse outcome in AD CHF. To achieve this raised a number of problems, namely the study of the activity of a number of indicators that reflect the systemic inflammatory response, to determine the level of brain natriuretic peptide in the blood of these patients, and the relationship with the ejection fraction.

Keywords:heart failure, brain natriuretic peptide, echocardiography, red cell distribution width

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