Diastolic dysfunction increasingly is recognized as an important cause of congestive heart failure (CHF). In this study, Mayo Clinic researchers surveyed a random sample of 2042 adults (age, 45 or ...

BACKGROUND: Heart failure occurs in roughly one out of 100 people. A total of almost five million Americans are suffering from the progressive condition. In heart failure, the heart cannot pump blood ...

Columbus-based Ohio State University’s Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital is the first in the world to study the clinical benefits of a device used to treat diastolic heart failure. Diastolic heart ...

Of the estimated five million patients in the U.S. diagnosed with heart failure annually, nearly half will have heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Also known as diastolic heart ...

Once largely a diagnosis of exclusion, new tools and treatments are unraveling some of the mysteries surrounding heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Corvia Medical Inc. has closed $54 million in equity financing to support a confirmatory trial for its Interatrial Shunt Device, designed to reverse diastolic heart failure (HF), otherwise known as ...

M ore than 6 million adults in the United States have heart failure. Of these, about half have diastolic heart failure and the other half have systolic heart failure. In February 2021, the U.S. Food ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this 12-part journey through a disease state ...

Feb. 1 (UPI) --People with the most common form of heart failure may benefit from a new, minimally invasive cardiac implant device, particularly if they exercise, a study published Tuesday by the ...