Congestive heart failure (CHF), also simply called heart failure, is a chronic condition in which the heart progressively becomes less efficient at pumping blood around the body. Heart failure impacts ...

In heart failure, the body’s accumulation of salt and fluid produces increased pressures in the cardiac chambers. Elevated cardiac pressure causes some of that excess fluid to accumulate in the lungs.

This finding was largely driven by congestive heart failure. The practicing clinician should not abandon doxazosin completely because of the ALLHAT findings, although these findings are ...

That test revealed that his ejection fraction, a measure of how effectively your blood pumps, was “really low” and the then-41-year-old was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2019.

1 Department of Cardiology, Zhangzhou Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Zhangzhou, Fujian, China 2 Department of Endocrinology, Shengli Clinical Medical College of Fujian Medical ...

Therefore, using new definitions for mode of death due to heart failure, we performed a retrospective chart review of records from a university-based heart failure disease management program to ...

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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia complicating cardiac surgery. Patients who develop AF following cardiac surgery are at increased risk of stroke, congestive heart failure, and ...

Sexual dimorphism is identified in a mouse model of Friedreich’s ataxia, with males exhibiting a worse cardiac phenotype, low survival rate, as well as kidney and reproductive organ deficiencies.

Background New-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) increases ...

Our aim was to assess the efficacy of telemedicine incorporating telemonitoring of patients’ vital signs in decreasing readmissions with a focus on a specific patient population particularly prone to ...