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).
News | Pharmaceuticals | June 14, 2019
June 14, 2019 — Quantum Genomics announced the enrollment of the first patient in its QUORUM Phase IIb study of its...
News | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) | June 12, 2019
June 12, 2019 — In a letter sent to healthcare providers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) validates that...
News | Heart Valve Technology | May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced strategic clinical and regulatory milestones for its Edwards Pascal...
News | Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices (CRT) | May 15, 2019 | Dave Fornell, Editor
May 15, 2019 — A pilot trial has shown His pacing in cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has been shown to...
Technology | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) | May 14, 2019
May 14, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the expansion of Abiomed’s Impella 5.0 and...
Tafamidis meglumine (Vyndaqel) is one of two new drugs cleared by the FDA for the treatment of the cardiomyopathy caused by transthyretin mediated amyloidosis (ATTR-CM) in adults. These are the first FDA-approved treatments for ATTR-CM.
Technology | Heart Failure | May 06, 2019
May 6, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved tafamidis meglumine (Vyndaqel) and tafamidis (...
The Aortic intra-aortic axial flow pump is designed to unload the heart and increase renal perfusion in heart failure patients experiencing cardiorenal syndrome.
Feature | Heart Failure | April 29, 2019 | Will Clifton, M.D.
The heart and kidneys are inextricably linked through a diverse web of hemodynamic, neural and hormonal mechanisms. As...
News | Heart Failure | April 19, 2019
April 19, 2019 – Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have demonstrated that the recently...
News | Heart Failure | March 29, 2019
March 29, 2019 — The cardiovascular benefits of the diabetes drug dapagliflozin extend across a wide spectrum of...
![New data from a four-week extension of the landmark PIONEER-HF Trial showed the drug sacubitril/valsartan (Entresto) continued to deliver reductions in the heart failure biomarker N-terminal pro–B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), an established biomarker for heart failure severity and prognosis.[1] The data was presented as a late-breaker at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2019 Annual Scientific Session in March.](https://www.dicardiology.com/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_medium/public/Entresto_bottles.jpg?itok=5d-QZbix)
News | Heart Failure | March 27, 2019
March 27, 2019 —New data from a four-week extension of the landmark PIONEER-HF Trial showed the drug sacubitril/...
Nicholas Conn, a postdoctoral fellow at RIT and founder and CEO of Heart Health Intelligence, is part of the university team that has developed a toilet-seat based cardiovascular monitoring system. Image courtesy of A. Sue Weisler/RIT.
News | Heart Failure | March 26, 2019
March 26, 2019 — A toilet seat-based cardiovascular monitoring system created by a team of Rochester Institute of...
News | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) | March 22, 2019
March 22, 2019 — Severely ill patients with advanced heart failure who received the HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist...
News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound | March 21, 2019
March 21, 2019 — Clinicians should use echocardiography when determining whether patients with heart failure and a...
Technology | Heart Failure | March 21, 2019
March 21, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Impulse Dynamics’ Optimizer Smart system for...
The opening late-breaking trial at ACC 2019 is the Apple Heart Study, a large-scale, app-based study to identify atrial fibrillation using a smartwatch. Earlier, smaller trials showed this approach might be used in a population health application to proactively identify AFib patients earlier.
Feature | ACC | March 19, 2019
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) released a list of the latest practice-changing presentations at the ACC.19...
