Heart failure sounds alarming—and rightfully so. Yet approximately 6.5 million Americans currently live with this condition, many with the specific variant called systolic heart failure, and a ...

Living with a heart that struggles to pump effectively creates daily challenges for millions of Americans. Systolic heart failure fundamentally changes how patients experience everyday activities.

To distinguish the two groups, you really need to see the echocardiogram and the measurement of LVEF. "That doesn't preclude that these medications could have a longer-term benefit—maybe the ...

Chicago, IL - Prolongation of the QRS interval, an electrocardiographic marker for ventricular dyssynchrony, is present in more than a third of low-LVEF patients hospitalized for acute heart failure ...

Through a deep-learning model, researchers have shown that ordinary ECG images can be leveraged to identify patients with an LV ejection fraction below 40%. Their approach also appears able to ...

The heart is a muscle like no other, beating 60 to 100 times per minute on average, around the clock. But when it grows weak, it can lead to serious problems: from debilitating shortness of breath and ...

LBBB is linked to electrical abnormalities, causing inefficient heart pumping, dilation, and systolic dysfunction. The study found LBBB associated with increased heart failure risk, surpassing other ...

Optimal NT-proBNP cut-off values increased progressively with advancing CKD: 694 pg/mL in Stage 3a, 1,452 pg/mL in Stage 3b, ...

—Starting cardiac medications, using the proper timing and dosing, to optimize the efficacy of therapies and improve patient outcomes, is key to cardiac care for patients with Duchenne muscular ...