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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January 26, 2011 - The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center and the University of Pittsburgh have been ...

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January 24, 2011 – The first U.S. clinical implant of a device designed to restore more natural breathing ...

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December 29, 2010 - Research on reducing risks, improving medical treatment and improving lifestyle behaviors to ...

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December 21, 2010 - The outcome of a recent expert consensus workshop offers six specific research recommendations ...

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December 6, 2010 – The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has partnered with Philips Healthcare on a new ...

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November 17, 2010 – Chronic heart failure patients treated with eplerenone (Inspra) experienced a significant ...

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November 15, 2010 – Data from the RAFT clinical trial show that cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillators ...

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November 5, 2010 – The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has awarded the University of Illinois at ...

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October 18, 2010 - A 54-year-old Italian man has become the first patient to surpass 1,000 days of support with an ...

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October 18, 2010 – Toronto General Hospital is the first Canadian medical center to implant a left-ventricular ...

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September 14, 2010 –To support proactive patient care for those at risk for worsening heart failure, Medtronic ...

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September 10, 2010 – The first patient was successfully supported for six days by the Impella Right Peripheral ...

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August 19, 2010 – The 12-month follow-up results from the TITAN trial of the Carillon Mitral Contour System will ...

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August 17, 2010 – Middle-aged and elderly Swedish women who regularly ate a small amount of chocolate had lower risks of ...

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August 13, 2010 – A rotary blood pump designed for long-term patient support had another patient surpass four ...

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