Congestive heart failure (CHF) and heart failure are the same thing. Both terms describe the inability of the heart to pump enough blood to service the body's needs. The term "congestive" simply ...

Managing heart failure @home (MHF @home) is an approach that aims to support people to manage their heart failure condition and keep well at home. Remote monitoring, when clinically appropriate and ...

When cardiac output remains severely reduced with vasoconstriction despite increasing doses of dobutamine, the addition of milrinone ... any vasoactive infusion should be added to facilitate diuresis ...

Heart failure is a condition that occurs when the heart can’t pump as well as it should. This may happen when the heart muscle becomes weak or stiff. As a result, it doesn’t deliver enough blood to ...

Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy has been instrumental in saving lives of patients with end-stage heart failure (HF). Recent generation devices have short-to ... Pre-operative use of ...

A cardiac surgery and heart failure team at the University of Michigan implanted a novel mechanical heart pump into a patient as part of a clinical trial that will compare it to the only device ...

Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are increasingly common across the heart failure population. Right ventricular failure (RVF) is a feared complication that can occur in the early post-operative ...

WASHINGTON – Stakeholders, with feedback in hand from the Congressional Budget Office, are working with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to modify previous bills to improve Medicare’s home ...

A novel transcatheter-implanted system that shunts blood flow from the left to right atrium through the coronary sinus has shown an incremental clinical benefit from the 1-year to 2-year follow-up.

When you're looking at adding a heat pump to your home, you'll need to make sure the size is right for your square footage. Erin Gobler is a personal finance writer based in Madison, Wisconsin.

If your heat pump is too small for your home, it likely won't work properly. You could end up paying higher heating and cooling bills because the heat pump will struggle to heat and cool your home.

Hyderabad: Heart failure, a condition often associated with debilitating symptoms and frequent ... Tests focus on the heart’s ejection fraction (EF)—a measure of how effectively the heart pumps blood.