Heart Failure

This heart failure channel offers news and new technology to treat heart failure. This includes for new innovations to treat congestive heart failure (CHF). The channel includes news on HFpEF and HFrEF. Heart failure occurs when the heart is no longer able to pump as much blood as the body requires. This can lead to enlargement of the heart because the muscle works harder to supply blood, but the pumping is ineffective. This may be due to defects in the myocardium, such as an infarct, or due to structural issues such as severe valve regurgitation. The disease is divided into four New York Heart Association (NYHA) classes. Stage IV heart failure is when the heart is completely failing and requires a heart transplant  or a left ventricular assist device (LVAD).

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March 11, 2011 – Texas Children's has become the world's first pediatric hospital to complete the first phase of ...

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March 8, 2011 – Nile Therapeutics is pursuing a new indication for cenderitide, formerly CD-NP. The company is ...

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March 7, 2011 – Nile Therapeutics will partner with Medtronic to develop natriuretic peptide, cenderitide ...

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February 17, 2011 – On Jan. 15, after 864 days of life with an artificial heart, Charles Okeke received a dual ...

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February 14, 2011 – Results from the CHAMPION study have been published online in The Lancet. The study ...

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January 27, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an Investigational Device Exemption ...

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January 26, 2011 - The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center and the University of Pittsburgh have been ...

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January 24, 2011 – The first U.S. clinical implant of a device designed to restore more natural breathing ...

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December 29, 2010 - Research on reducing risks, improving medical treatment and improving lifestyle behaviors to ...

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December 21, 2010 - The outcome of a recent expert consensus workshop offers six specific research recommendations ...

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December 6, 2010 – The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has partnered with Philips Healthcare on a new ...

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November 17, 2010 – Chronic heart failure patients treated with eplerenone (Inspra) experienced a significant ...

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November 15, 2010 – Data from the RAFT clinical trial show that cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillators ...

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November 5, 2010 – The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has awarded the University of Illinois at ...

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October 18, 2010 - A 54-year-old Italian man has become the first patient to surpass 1,000 days of support with an ...

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