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).

Technology | Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices (CRT)

April 18, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the U.S. launch and first U.S. implants of the Quadra Assura MP cardiac ...

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News | Heart Failure

April 15, 2016 — An investigational stem cell therapy derived from patients’ own blood marrow significantly improved ...

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April 15, 2016 — A new implantable medical device intended to help patients with heart failure by stimulating the vagus ...

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News | Heart Failure

April 15, 2015 — In patients with heart failure, use of an investigational device that monitors the accumulation of ...

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News | Stem Cell Therapies

April 6, 2016 — End-stage heart failure patients treated with stem cells harvested from their own bone marrow ...

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News | Analytics Software

March 29, 2016 — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) released a new interac ...

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News | Structural Heart

March 28, 2016 — V-Wave Ltd, maker of an investigational interatrial shunt device for patients with advanced heart ...

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News | Artificial Heart

March 24, 2016 — A new documentary produced by Retro Report for The New York Times looks at the history and modern use ...

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Blog | HIMSS

The need for improved efficiency in healthcare and the new requirements of U.S. healthcare reform have rapidly made the ...

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News | Blood Testing

March 22, 2016 — Critical Diagnostics announced that it entered into a license agreement for the exclusive worldwide ...

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News | Artificial Heart

March 18, 2016 — A surgical team at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas successfully performed a heart transplant ...

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News | Stem Cell Therapies

March 1, 2016 — Cardiac stem cells could be an effective treatment for a common but difficult-to-treat type of heart ...

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News | Heart Failure

March 1, 2016 — For the first time in the United States, a clinical trial is underway that’s evaluating a device ...

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News | Remote Monitoring

February 17, 2016 — Increasingly patients and providers are interested in using remote monitoring devices to help with ...

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