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 ...

Heart transplantation remains the optimal long-term treatment for appropriate patients with advanced heart failure. However, the donor heart shortage is a limiting factor, and the risk profile of ...

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, ...

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 ...

Rationale Heart failure (HF) management in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is often delayed or suboptimal. Objectives To examine the effect of HF and HF medication use on ...

If you have heart failure, you may feel weak and fatigued during the day. The illness can also affect you during the night. Here’s what to do about it. Quality sleep allows the body to rest and ...

Background Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a complex clinical syndrome in which signs and symptoms of heart failure (HF) occur despite a normal left ventricular ejection ...

Objective Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a common heterogeneous syndrome that remains imprecisely defined and consequently has limited treatment options and poor outcomes.

Other heart conditions — such as congenital heart defects or myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) — can also lead to heart failure. How to help prevent heart failure. While not all causes of ...