A multicenter study has identified a potential new treatment for acute heart failure, a leading cause of hospitalization and death. A multicenter study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center ...

Case demonstrates initiation of a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor in a patient with type 2 diabetes and heart failure. A 56-year-old man with a history of hypertension and type 2 ...

During embryonic development, the right ventricle is formed from the secondary heart field into a crescent-shaped, thin-walled structure. 6 It is the most anterior heart chamber, sitting just beneath ...

Why has a 64-year-old man become increasingly short of breath over the past 2 weeks? That's what Sandra K. Rabat, DO, of A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Mesa, Arizona, and ...

The exploration started in 2004 with a 62-year-old man who presented to an emergency department with acute shortness of breath, tachycardia with chest discomfort, and light-headedness, Amado Alejandro ...

Empagliflozin stabilizes kidney function and reduces heart failure risk post-myocardial infarction, with eGFR remaining stable over 24 months. The EMPACT-MI trial confirmed empagliflozin's safety when ...

Malnutrition can affect patients with various acute cardiovascular disease conditions, including acute coronary syndromes, arrhythmias, or valvular disease; however, most of the literature has focused ...

DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Abiomed (Nasdaq: ABMD) announces that Impella RP Flex with SmartAssist has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pre-market approval (PMA), the FDA’s ...

About one in 10 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 experience acute cardiac events, which are linked to nearly double the risks of ICU admission and in-hospital death, a new analysis of 2021 data ...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the term used to describe what happens when the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs. (It should not be confused with cardiac arrest in which ...