[Comorbidity of chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].

Cardiovascular diseases most frequently coexist with the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The studies report on over 10 million patients of population suffering both chronic heart failure (CHF) and COPD. Similarity of the clinical symptoms and risk factors found in the medical history of patients with chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease often causes diagnostic mistakes. At present, medicine has the wide...