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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December 12, 2011 - CardioMEMS announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Circulatory Systems Devices ...

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December 6, 2011 — Boston Scientific Corp. announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Incepta ...

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December 5, 2011 – University Hospitals Case Medical Center researchers could still be close to giving heart attack ...

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

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November 16, 2011 — Heart failure patients with a previous myocardial infarction showed an average of 12 percent ...

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November 16, 2011 – Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development announced that adding oral rivaroxaban to ...

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October 18, 2011 — A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee will discuss and make recommendations to expand ...

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October 18, 2011 – New research published in the October issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine shows hospitals ...

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October 17, 2011 — The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) are ...

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Diagnostic & Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) magazine is looking for readers' opinions about what they think are the ...

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October 3, 2011 – Cardiac Dimensions Inc. announced it received European CE mark approval for a newly enhanced version ...

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October 3, 2011 – Boston Scientific has enrolled the first patients in its NECTAR-HF (NEural Cardiac TherApy foR Heart F ...

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September 27, 2011 – Health 2.0 announced the launch of the Novartis CardioEngagement Challenge, asking multi ...

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September 22, 2011 — The 15th annual scientific meeting of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) will feature a ...

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September 20, 2011 — A new study published in the Sept. 27 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology re ...

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