Characteristics of current heart failure patients admitted to internal medicine vs. cardiology hospital units: the VASCO
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Characteristics of current heart failure patients admitted to internal medicine vs. cardiology hospital units: the VASCO study Elisa Ricciardi1 · Giovanni La Malfa2 · Giulia Guglielmi2 · Elisabetta Cenni3 · Marco Micali1 · Luca Moisio Corsello1 · Patrizia Lopena4 · Luca Manco5 · Roberto Pontremoli5 · Paolo Moscatelli3 · Giuseppe Murdaca6 · Natale Musso7 · Fabrizio Montecucco4 · Pietro Ameri2 · Italo Porto2 · Aldo Pende1 · Marco Canepa2 Received: 6 December 2019 / Accepted: 26 February 2020 © Società Italiana di Medicina Interna (SIMI) 2020
Abstract The majority of patients hospitalized for heart failure (HF) are admitted to internal medicine (IM) rather than to cardiology (CA) units, but to date few studies have analyzed the characteristics of these two populations. In this snapshot survey, we compared consecutive patients admitted for HF in six IM units vs. one non-intensive CA unit. During the 6-month survey period, 467 patients were enrolled (127 in CA, 27.2% vs. 340 in IM, 72.8%). IM patients were almost 10 years older (CA 75 ± 10, IM 82 ± 8 years; p
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