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 28, 2020 — AstraZeneca's heart failure medication dapagliflozin (Farxiga) significantly reduced the worsening of ...

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July 9, 2020 – The Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation (MHIF) is conducting additional research on a novel hydrogel ...

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June 30, 2020 —  BioCardia, Inc. announced that the company has resumed cases in the CardiAMP Heart Failure Trial. The ...

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June 23, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Program status for the ...

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Russian interventional cardiologist Alexey Pankov in full personal protective equipment (PPE) for a cath lab procedure in Moscow during the COVID-19 era. Right, an image of the COVID-19 virus from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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It was originally thought novel coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) was primarily a respiratory disorder, but as larger ...

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News | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD)

May 29, 2020 — Medtronic is recalling its HeartWare HVAD left ventricular assist device (LVAD) pump outflow graft and ...

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News | Artificial Heart

May 27, 2020 — Carmat, a developer of the of a next generation advanced total artificial heart, announces the first ...

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The American College of Cardiology (ACC) released a list of the latest practice-changing presentations at the ACC.20 annual meeting March 28-30, 2020, in Chicago. This includes five late-breaking clinical trial (LBCT) sessions and three featured clinical research sessions. There also are two LBCT deep-dive sessions where the experts will break down the hottest trials and attendees can find out what the impact might be on the practice of cardiology and patients.
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Here is the list of American College of Cardiology (ACC) practice-changing late-breaking study presentations at the ACC ...

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News | Heart Failure

March 29, 2020 — Patients with worsening heart failure and reduced ejection fraction who received the investigational ...

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March 28, 2020 — New data from a sub-analysis of the landmark Phase III DAPA-HF (Dapagliflozin And Prevention of Adverse ...

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Medicare, CMS, calls for cancelling or postponing all elective or non-essential medical procedures, test and surgeries due to COVID-19. #COVID19 #SARcov2 #coronavirus #cardiology
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March 20, 2020 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced March 18, 2020, that all elective ...

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News | Artificial Heart

March 10, 2020 —  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the SynCardia Systems 50cc temporary Total ...

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March 5, 2020 — Abbott recently received Breakthrough Device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA ...

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