The CardioNerds With Dr. Mark Drazner: Identifying the Correct Heart Failure Status

Drs.  Hirsh Elhence and Mark Belkin of the CardioNerds are joined expert faculty Dr. Mark Drazner, Professor of Medicine, and Clinical Chief of Cardiology at UT Southwestern, to answer the following question:

A 50-year-old woman with a history of congestive heart failure, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and obstructive sleep apnea presents to the outpatient clinic to follow up on her heart failure management. One year prior, echocardiogram showed an ejection fraction of 30% with an elevated BNP, for which she was started on appropriate GDMT. Repeat echocardiogram today showed an EF of 50%. Which of the following best describes her heart failure status?

The question refers to Section 2.2 of the 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure.

This podcast episode originally appeared on The CardioNerds.