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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July 7, 2010 – Vicor Technologies Inc. recently announced that it has submitted a 510(k) premarket notification to ...

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June 22, 2010 – St. Jude Medical Inc. last week announced the first enrollment in its LAPTOP-HF (Left Atrial ...

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Feature | Keyur B. Shah, M.D.; Daniel P. Tang, M.D.; Michael Hess, M.D; and Vigneshwar Kasirajan, M.D. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va., Advanced Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program

The practicality and expense of maintaining patients on total artificial hearts (TAH) may be significantly ...

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June 16, 2010 – A ventricular assist system has received conditional approval from the U.S. Food and Drug ...

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June 2, 2010 – Heart failure patients whose treatment was guided by pulmonary artery pressures obtained through a ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

New U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) indications for two key heart failure device therapies may help ...

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May 4, 2010 — New research released this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology shows the value ...

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March 22, 2010 – The FDA’s Circulatory System Devices Panel last week unanimously recommended expanding the ...

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March 9, 2010 — Initial clinical study results published in the journal Circulation indicates use of a physician ...

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February 19, 2010 – A chemical compound found normally in the blood has shown promise in treating and preventing ...

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January 27, 2010 – A German study enrolled its first 20 patients to investigate the utility of muscular counter ...

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July 24, 2009 – All results from a recent Mayo Clinic study validate the measurement accuracy of the Shape-HF ...

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June 2, 2009 - IDEAL LIFE Inc. and home care agency Bayada Nurses Inc. said today hospitalizations for patients ...

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April 21, 2009 - The Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus has successfully completed the first two ...

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April 2, 2009 - Vasomedical Inc. this week conducted two presentations on the beneficial effects of EECP external ...

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