TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Assessment of Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices A1 - Del Rio, J. Mauricio A1 - Milano, Carmelo A. A1 - Nicoara, Alina A2 - Mathew, Joseph P. A2 - Nicoara, Alina A2 - Ayoub, Chakib M. A2 - Swaminathan, Madhav PY - 2018 T2 - Clinical Manual and Review of Transesophageal Echocardiography, 3e AB - Heart failure represents a major public health problem worldwide. There are approximately 5.1 million patients diagnosed with this disease in the United States, and more than 650,000 new heart failure cases are diagnosed every year. In fact, in the United States the lifetime risk for developing heart failure is more than 20% for individuals more than 40 years old. As the U.S. elderly population is continuously growing, the expected incidence of heart failure will rise. Therefore, the health care cost and burden of heart failure in medical systems will become even more significant.1 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1195103138 ER -