While heart disease has been the leading cause of death in the U.S. for over a century, the past 50 years have seen a ...

Acute myocarditis—sudden inflammation of the heart—causes mild symptoms in most cases, but about 10% of acute myocarditis ...

Edema of the face, hands, ankles, and hepatomegaly is a later sign of right-sided heart failure. 30 Chest radiographs may provide clues to the degree of shunting in children with ... Kasprzak JD, ...

Context Disease management interventions for heart failure (HF) are inconsistent and very seldom incorporate the views and needs of patients and their caregivers into intervention design. Objective ...

Many of the compensatory biochemical mechanisms activated during early heart failure, such as neurohormonal activation and cytokine and growth-factor upregulation, induce myocellular hypertrophy ...

While a cough might seem like a small problem, in the case of heart failure, it can be a sign that your body is struggling to ...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) describes heterogeneous population of patients with a mean pulmonary arterial pressure >20 mm Hg. Rarely, PH presents as a primary disorder but is more commonly part of ...