This includes right-sided heart failure and left-sided heart failure. Heart failure, also known as congestive heart failure, is a condition that occurs when your heart either can’t fill up with enough ...

Left-sided heart failure can be classified further as heart failure with reduced or preserved ejection fraction: Ejection fraction is the percentage of blood the left ventricle of the heart pumps out ...

This includes right-sided heart failure and left-sided heart failure. Heart failure, also known as congestive heart failure, is a condition that occurs when your heart either can’t fill up with ...

A novel transcatheter-implanted system that shunts blood flow from the left to right atrium through the coronary sinus has ...

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-mid-term survival rates close ...

February being Heart Health Month, it's a chance to raise awareness of early heart attack care, hands-only CPR and heart failure awareness to name a few. Gracie Smith, chest pain coordinator at ...

The Aeson Total Artificial Heart helped three people with heart failure and pulmonary hypertension become eligible for a ...

The revolutionary BiVACOR heart device was moved to Phase 2 of FDA trials after success in five human patients.

The term “heart failure” sounds as if the heart has stopped working. Although it’s a serious condition and requires timely medical attention, the words actually mean that the heart isn’t able to keep ...

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 ...

Repair is generally preferred over replacement. Surgical intervention is often considered in patients with severe TR and symptoms of right-sided HF, particularly when associated with left-sided valve ...