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When a 70-year-old man with advanced heart failure and a left ventricular assist device seemed to intentionally disconnect ...
Twenty years after she was diagnosed with heart failure, Aubyn Baker says she would love to see the name of the serious chronic condition changed. “It is a scary name,” she acknowledges.
A rapidly growing heart failure epidemic calls for prioritizing primary prevention, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published in Circulation in April.
OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian Heart Failure Society (CHFS), the trusted voice in Canada for heart failure professionals, is marking the seventh annual National Heart Failure Awareness Week from May 4 ...
Allowing patients with heart failure to drink as much fluid as they want had no negative effects on safety outcomes — including hospitalization and death — and prevented discomfort related to ...
Slower gait speed is independently associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular death or worsening heart failure in patients with stable heart failure with reduced or improved left ...
Data from India’s first nationally representative heart failure registry with prospective follow-up data has found that heart failure patients in India are almost 10 years younger than their ...
New computational method reveals congestive heart failure Date: February 6, 2025 Source: Tampere University Summary: A team of physicists has developed a groundbreaking method for detecting ...
The NHS has highlighted that swelling in the ankles is a key indicator of heart failure. This condition, known as oedema, can also impact the feet and legs, potentially making it harder to move ...
After an evaluation that rules out an acute coronary syndrome, she receives a diagnosis of heart failure. The N-terminal pro–B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) level is 1529 pg per milliliter.
He lives it every day, as he and his fellow researchers study and reprogram the potential of the blood to treat disease, specifically heart failure in children. Building on the work of Dr. Shinya ...
A new gene therapy can reverse the effects of heart failure and restore heart function in a large animal model. The therapy increases the amount of blood the heart can pump and dramatically improves ...