Heart Failure

This heart failure channel offers news and new technology to treat heart failure. This includes for new innovations to treat congestive heart failure (CHF). The channel includes news on HFpEF and HFrEF. Heart failure occurs when the heart is no longer able to pump as much blood as the body requires. This can lead to enlargement of the heart because the muscle works harder to supply blood, but the pumping is ineffective. This may be due to defects in the myocardium, such as an infarct, or due to structural issues such as severe valve regurgitation. The disease is divided into four New York Heart Association (NYHA) classes. Stage IV heart failure is when the heart is completely failing and requires a heart transplant  or a left ventricular assist device (LVAD).

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February 20, 2012 — Biopharmaceutical company Celladon Corp. this week completed a $43 million equity financing to ...

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February 16, 2012 — Few hospitals have as much experience with the Berlin Heart pediatric ventricular assist device (VAD ...

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February 2, 2012 — Abiomed Inc. announced that initial clinical data from the safety study for Symphony was presented by ...

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January 27, 2012 — A miniature, battery-free, wireless, cardiac implant being developed by a University of Michigan ...

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January 26, 2012 — St. Jude Medical recently announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Unify ...

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January 25, 2012 — CJPS Medical Systems announced that VitalPoint, its remote patient monitor, can be used with ...

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January 12, 2012 — Clinical analytics company Humedica announced the launch of a predictive analytic model that ...

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Jack Miller, 62, is probably the only politician in America who smiles when people call him “heartless.” Four months ago ...

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January 11, 2012 — HeartWare International, Inc. and Dualis MedTech GmbH, a subsidiary of AVRA Surgical, Inc., announced ...

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January 3, 2012 – Ikaria Inc. announced it commenced its global development program, the PRESERVATION I clinical trial ...

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December 29, 2011 – Heart failure remains by far the single biggest reason for acute hospital admission but is ...

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Each year that I attend Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), I comb the event and its sessions looking ...

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December 19, 2011— Newborns, toddlers and teens who suffer from heart failure and need heart transplantation to survive ...

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December 15, 2011 — InterComponentWare Inc. has been honored with the 2011 Karl Storz Prize for Telemedicine through its ...

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December 14, 2011 — Flagstaff Medical Center (FMC) has begun enrollment for a new program, Care Beyond Walls and Wires ...

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