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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March 30, 2017 — New late-breaking featured clinical research presented today adds strong clinical support for Abbott's ...

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March 15, 2017 — Using marijuana raises the risk of stroke and heart failure even after accounting for demographic ...

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March 8, 2017 — A Whitehall, Ohio man is the first in the United States to undergo a brand new treatment designed to ...

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March 8, 2017 —  Congestive heart failure patients at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) now have reason for ...

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March 7, 2017 — Medtronic plc recently announced an economic analysis of five-year data showing that patients with mild ...

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March 2, 2017 — BioVentrix Inc. announced that InEk, the German Institute for the Hospital Remuneration System, has ...

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Ursula Wright, MSN/MBA, FNP-BC, from Mercy Health System, explains how the nation's fifth largest Catholic health system ...

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February 22, 2017 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC), Haymarket Medical Education (HME) and myCME have joined ...

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February 21, 2017 — Mercy, the fifth largest Catholic healthcare system in the nation, was named a 2016 Healthcare ...

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 Intra-atrial shunt device (IASD) to lower left atrial pressure by creating a small left atrial to right atrial shunt.  Abraham said these devices are in early stage development with small studies to show proof of concept and demonstrate safety.
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In the past few years there have been a number of device therapies developed to treat heart failure (HF). This is partly ...

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February 9, 2017 — Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) has documented reduced readmissions for congestive heart ...

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February 7, 2017 — A new anticancer agent in development promotes regeneration of damaged heart muscle — an unexpected ...

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February 7, 2017 — Of the more than 700,000 Americans who suffer a heart attack each year, about a quarter go on to ...

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This video, provided by BioVentrix Inc., demonstrates how to implant the Revivent TC System to reduce the volume of the ...

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February 3, 2017 — Penn Medicine announced that its heart failure team is using big data to kick-start a project that is ...

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