In CHS, the index CHF event was adjudicated by an expert panel that reviewed all pertinent data on the hospitalization or outpatient visit for CHF, including history, physical examination, chest x-ray ...

A simple points system may soon help guide treatment of elderly heart failure patients. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that by counting how many of seven ...

Both patients with HF/PEF and HF/low-EF can develop ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death that can be managed with ICDs. Sudden death can result from two main causes: Arrhythmias, usually ...

My husband is 74 and has congestive heart failure. He has what look like burns on his left leg. There is a lot of swelling, and his leg is leaking blood and fluid. He sees a cardiologist and has been ...

"[...] this is the first study to address the effects of Xa-Is on composite cardiovascular events, congestive heart failure, arteriosclerotic disease, and ...

When the heart can no longer pump blood efficiently throughout the body, kidney function issues are among the first complications to develop. Congestive heart failure (CHF), a condition that reflects ...

Patients with heart failure who took dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor, after undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) were significantly less likely ...

Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) subtypes, specifically non- DNMT3A genes, were associated with incident heart failure in older patients in a recent study published in JAMA ...

Systolic congestive heart failure involves the left side of your heart losing its ability to pump effectively. Common ...