Almost half of patients hospitalized for acute heart failure in Europe are readmitted within a year, according to a new study ...

Current models of mortality risk after heart failure (HF) rely primarily on cardiac-specific clinical variables and may underestimate risk in elderly East Asian patients. Researchers from Japan used ...

Heart failure (HF) is estimated to affect over 60 million people globally and its prevalence is expected to rise as a consequence of aging populations. It results from an inability of the heart to ...

Among patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), those taking a “polypill” combination of three medications typically prescribed for heart failure, once daily for six months, ...

While proven to help, primary care clinicians have been slow to use the drugs once considered only for patients with diabetes.

Cardiologists and radiation oncologists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis pioneered the use of radiation therapy - a strategy typically used against cancer - to treat patients ...

During embryonic development, the right ventricle is formed from the secondary heart field into a crescent-shaped, thin-walled structure. 6 It is the most anterior heart chamber, sitting just beneath ...

Following the course of lung function in treatment-naïve patients, researchers found that lung function decline does not accelerate prior to mechanical ventilation. Patterns in the decline of lung ...

Researchers have reduced scar formation and improved heart function in mouse models of heart failure using a monoclonal antibody treatment, similar to that approved by the FDA to treat other ...

NEW ORLEANS -- A polypill that combines three of the four mainstays of treatment for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction improved cardiac function and reduced the risks for serious medical ...

The FSB, which monitors financial systems and proposes rules to help prevent financial crises, said it was assessing the financial stability implications of multifunction crypto-asset intermediaries ...