Q: Can you tell me about ejection fractions? My wife’s heart doctor recently told us that her heart is weak, and she has a low ejection fraction. He did not discuss this much, but he has put her on ...

Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome affecting around 70 million individuals globally. It has a prevalence of 2% in Europe and North America and approximately 1% in Asia and South America.

A Tale of Two Citizens: A State Attorney General and a Hematologist Facilitate Translation of Research Into US Food and Drug Administration Actions—A SONAR Report The median age was 71 years, and 54% ...

Once largely a diagnosis of exclusion, new tools and treatments are unraveling some of the mysteries surrounding heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Dear Doctor K: My husband has heart failure. His doctor often uses the term "ejection fraction." Can you explain what this means? Dear Reader: With heart failure, the heart is still pumping it's just ...

Valeeta Gibson thought it was "kind of strange" when her husband, Carl, received a letter from the Tampa Bay Heart Institute at Northside Hospital, asking whether he knew his "ejection fraction'' ...

The American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the Heart Failure Society of America released new guidelines Friday that add a fourth class of medication to the recommended ...

In 105 boys and young men enrolled in the HOPE-3 trial, patients given deramiocel every three months for a year had 54% ...

The outside advisors analyzed the results of the RELIEVE-HF pivotal trial, which randomized 508 patients to either receive ...

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Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a type of heart failure that affects the left side of the heart. It occurs when the lower left chamber of the heart, called the left ventricle ...