Author(s)

Assétou Soukho Kaya¹, Abdel Kader Traoré¹, Djibril Sy¹, Djenebou Traoré¹, Ilo Diall², Youssouf Fofana³, Ibahima Amadou Dembélé¹, Boua Daoud Camara⁴, Mamadou Saliou¹, Karim Dao¹, Mamadou Cissoko¹, Kaly Kéïta¹, Barry Boubacar Sangaré¹, Mamadou Mallé¹, Alassane A. Doumbia¹, Hadiza A. Kaïlou¹, Mamadou Dembélé¹, Hamar Alassane Traoré¹

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Point G University Hospital, Bamako, Mali.
²Department of Cardiac Disease, Point G University Hospital, Bamako, Mali.
³Department of Internal Medicine of Children and Mothers, Le Luxembourg University Hospital, Bamako, Mali.
⁴Internal Medicine Service, Nianankoro Fomba Hospital, Ségou, Mali.

Justification: Heart failure (HF) is the evolutionary end of all cardiac diseases. Given the aging population, the rate of incidence is increasing among the elderly. Objectives: The study aims to determine the prevalence of heart failure in the elderly; to describe the clinical aspects; describe etiologies; describe the therapeutic aspects; and describe the evolution of heart failure among the elderly. Method: This was a retrospective study over five years on the operating records of patients hospitalized in the internal medicine department of Hospital Point G. Result: The study included records of 22 elderly patients who were with heart failure of a total of 595 patients hospitalized from 1st January 2008 to 31st December 2012. The prevalence rate was 3.7%, and the average age was 67 ± 7.79 years. The sex ratio was equal to 1. HTA accounted for the cardiovascular risk factors in 77.3%. 72.7% of patients had the symptom of dyspnea and 95.5% of patients had the symptom of IMO. According to the cardiac ultrasound, dilation of the OG represented 68.2% of cases, followed by impaired LVEF (63.6%). The etiologies of IC were represented by dilated cardiomyopathy (95.5%), followed by 13.6% in cardiothyreosis. Drug treatment was dominated by the use of diuretics, ACE inhibitors and sodium diet respectively 95.5%; 81.8% and 45.5% of cases. The clinical outcome was favorable in 73%. We recorded four (4) cases of death, which accounted for 18% of patients.

Heart Failure, Clinic, Etiology, Therapeutics, The Elder

Kaya, A. , Traoré, A. , Sy, D. , Traoré, D. , Diall, I. , Fofana, Y. , Dembélé, I. , Camara, B. , Saliou, M. , Dao, K. , Cissoko, M. , Kéïta, K. , Sangaré, B. , Mallé, M. , Doumbia, A. , Kaïlou, H. , Dembélé, M. and Traoré, H. (2019) Clinic Evaluation of Heart Failure of Old People in the Department of Internal Medicine of Point G University Hospital from 2008 to 2012. Open Journal of Internal Medicine, 9, 83-88. doi: 10.4236/ojim.2019.93012.