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NYHA Heart Failure Classification
Aka: NYHA Heart Failure Classification, NYHA Class, AHA Heart Failure Stage, AHA/ACC Heart Failure Classification
- See Also
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Left Ventricular Dysfunction
- Classification: NYHA
- Class I: Symptoms with more than ordinary activity
- Class II: Symptoms with ordinary activity
- Class III: Symptoms with minimal activity
- Class IIIa: No Dyspnea at rest
- Class IIIb: Recent Dyspnea at rest
- Class IV: Symptoms at rest
- Classification: Alternative Heart Failure classification
- Asymptomatic (NYHA Class I)
- Symptomatic (NYHA Class II and Class III)
- Symptomatic with recent Dyspnea at rest (Class IIIb)
- Symptomatic with Dyspnea at rest (Class IV)
- Classification: AHA/ACC Heart Failure Stage
- Stage A
- No symptoms
- No heart disease
- Heart Failure risk factors
- Hypertension
- Diabetes Mellitus or Metabolic Syndrome
- Obesity
- Atherosclerotic disease
- Cardiomyopathy risks (e.g. cardiotoxin exposure, Family History)
- Stage B
- No symptoms
- Structural heart disease
- History of Myocardial Infarction
- Valvular heart disease (asymptomatic)
- Left Ventricular Hypertrophy or other evidence of remodeling
- Decreased ejection fraction
- Stage C
- Heart Failure symptoms
- Structural heart disease
- Stage D
- Symptoms at rest requiring aggressive medical management
- Advanced structural heart disease
- References
- Chavey (2001) Am Fam Physician 64:769-74 [PubMed]