Review Article

A Contemporary Systematic Approach to Assessing the Patient with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: Multimodal Noninvasive and Invasive Evaluation

Figure 5

Correlation of AHA stage and survival. Note the marked deterioration in survival once the patient becomes symptomatic (the patient in the current case is AHA class C, mild to moderate with an annual mortality between ten and twenty percent) (adapted from Mayo Board Review, Figure 93.1 (page 859)).