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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April 24, 2014 — Boston Scientific Corp. has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its latest ...

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April 23, 2014 — The PROCEED II heart transplant U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pivotal trial results using the ...

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April 21, 2014 — Decision Resources Group announced in a report that Servier's ivabradine (procoralan) is set to become ...

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April 18, 2014 — Cytori Therapeutics announced publication of safety and efficacy data from a 36 month European clinical ...

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April 18, 2014 — New research presented at the 34th annual meeting of the International Society for Heart and Lung ...

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April 17, 2014 — Medtronic announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an expanded indication for ...

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April 10, 2014 — CardioKinetix Inc. announced results of a pooled analysis study of the catheter-based Parachute ...

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April 10, 2014 — The largest single-center study of patients implanted with a total artificial heart found the device ...

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The biggest news item from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 63rd Annual Scientific Session ...

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Patients in mild heart failure who receive a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) device may live ...
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April 7, 2014 — Strategies aimed at reducing the number of patients with heart failure and other cardiovascular ...

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March 18, 2014 — Thoratec Corp. initiated a voluntary worldwide Medical Device Correction in order to update its ...

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A big trend in healthcare IT at HIMSS 2014 was the creation of enterprise-wide image access systems. With the ...

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LAPTOP-HF Telecardiology Remote Patient Monitoring ICM EP Lab Heart Failure ECG
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February 19, 2014 — A new treatment option for heart disease is being tested at The University of Kansas Hospital that ...

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February 10, 2014 — Massachusetts General Hospital conducted a biomarker-guided therapy study of chronic heart failure ...
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