Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In March, three societies announced a new universal definition and classification of HF designed to standardize ...

A panel of medical experts open a discussion surrounding heart failure and its prevalence in health care. Let’s first start by reviewing the different classifications of heart failure per the updated ...

FLORENCE, ITALY (updated) – The new term for heart-failure patients with LVEF between 40% and 49% should be "HF with mid-range EF (HFmrEF)," according to a report released to a standing-room-only ...

ADVANCENT, funded by Guidant Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana), is a long-term, observational, longitudinal registry that aims to study the management of 100,000 patients with left ventricular ...

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) recently published the 2012 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure (HF). The editors of MPR have provided a ...

Edge-to-edge transcatheter mitral valve repair with the MitraClip (Abbott) in heart failure patients with secondary mitral regurgitation (MR) lowers the risk of death or heart failure-related ...

BNP levels are sensitive to such other biological factors as age, gender, sex, weight, and renal function. BNP levels may be elevated in cases of acute MI, pulmonary embolism, and chronic obstructive ...

Chronic heart failure is a syndrome, not a specific disease, and occurs as a final common pathway in multiple disease states. The pathophysiology of chronic heart failure (HF) exists when either the ...

Heart failure (HF) imposes a large and growing burden on the population, with a prevalence that is projected to increase to more than 8 million adults by 2030. The high risk of morbidity and mortality ...

A Phase Ib/II Study of Lenvatinib and Pembrolizumab in Advanced Endometrial Carcinoma (Study 111/KEYNOTE-146): Long-Term Efficacy and Safety Update We studied 33,991 patients with a history of breast, ...