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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July 30, 2014 — Following a heart attack, many heart failure patients suffer from enlargement of their left ventricle ...

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July 21, 2014 – The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium announced that Texas Children's Hospital has earned the ...
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July 18, 2014 — The Freedom portable driver has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for use with ...

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July 16, 2014 — CorMatrix Cardiovascular and the Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior in Warsaw ...

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July 11, 2014 — DC Devices Inc. has closed a $34 million Series D financing round. Accelmed led the round with ...

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In the current era of healthcare reform with the overarching goal of reducing healthcare costs, heart failure (HF) ...

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July 7, 2014 — Thoratec Corp. has acquired Apica Cardiovascular Ltd. for an upfront cash payment of $35 million and ...

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July 1, 2014 — BioVentrix announced the successful completion of it 50th clinical case using the Revivent myocardial ...

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June 23, 2014 — Men who reported being sedentary, with low levels of physical activity, were at a significantly higher ...

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Interventional thought leaders at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2014 meeting shared their predictions about ...

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June 10, 2014 — Mast Therapeutics Inc. announced that, in a placebo-controlled, nonclinical model of chronic heart ...

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June 2, 2014 — St. Jude Medical announced the completion of its acquisition of the privately held CardioMEMS Inc ...

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May 30, 2014 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted market clearance to the CardioMEMS Heart Failure ...

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May 23, 2014 — Medtronic announced the results from the first prospective randomized clinical trial to show that ...

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