Because life expectancy and the prevalence of risk factors such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes are rising globally, heart failure (HF) is growing into a major health problem. Impairment of ...

Heart failure due to isolated left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) is common among older adults. The purpose of this study was to develop a model based on admission clinical features to ...

The initial clinical assessments elicited stark awareness of a syndromic condition of varied causes (originally rheumatic heart disease, hypertension, and coronary disease) characterized by abysmal ...

Saint Francis is in the middle of a two-year double-blind clinical trail for a device that could potentially help people with congestive heart failure. When Gail Knox was diagnosed with a type of ...

Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are increasingly common across the heart failure population ... Risk factors for right ventricular failure after LVAD implantation obtained using pulmonary ...

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF ... represents a non-invasive option to refining the diagnosis in this subset of patients. Diastolic responses to exercise are most commonly ...

Purpose: Left ventricular end-diastolic diameter (LVEDD ... Previous studies also have found that LVEDD level is a risk factor for mortality in patients with or without heart failure. Seko et al.

is an incurable form of heart failure with limited drug treatment options. By studying mice, researchers found that low ALPK2 levels weakened heart relaxation, while high ALPK2 expression increased ...

Orchestra BioMed Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: OBIO) revealed promising new findings on its atrioventricular interval modulation (AVIM) therapy during a late-breaking presentation at the Technology and ...

Meli Del Carmen Hohner discovered she had cardiomyopathy after giving birth. Now living with an LVAD, she advocates for her ...