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What Is The Life Expectancy Of Stage Three Heart Failure Patients ?
What is the life expectancy of stage three heart failure patients ? What is the life expectancy of stage three heart failure patients?
Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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alexander's
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There are 4 stages of HF, A B C & D. Stage 3 or C is when the doctors have done just about all they can and it is now up to the patient to take care of them self. (Short of a transplant= Stage D)
IF the patient is taking all their meds, Eating right and exericing from the doctors orders (Sometimes no exerice is allowed at this point) & the stents, pacemaker, A fibs etc etc are in olace AND working and no infections set in the person can live a long life, maybe 15 years or more!
Hope this helped
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wiltfong's
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What if the patients has no stents or pacemaker and is the third stage? His doctor told him he had 5 years and that was last year.
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