The heart muscle does not regenerate, instead, it replaces dead tissue with a scar made of cells called fibroblasts that do not help the heart pump. If there is too much scarring, the heart gradually ...

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands—Using catheter ablation to treat atrial fibrillation (AF) provides a benefit even among patients with advanced heart failure who are being considered for heart ...

"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 journey through a disease state contains ...

Heart failure experts are warning that despite seeing some of cardiology’s most exciting therapeutic advances over the last decade, their field has a serious pipeline problem. Unless steps are taken ...

Heart failure prevalence in India alone was projected to be between 1.3 million and 4.6 million in 2022. This makes it important to understand what the condition is, in addition to understanding what ...

Stem cell-based therapy improved quality of life for patients with advanced heart failure, Mayo Clinic researchers and international collaborators discovered in a late-stage multinational clinical ...

CHICAGO — For patients with advanced heart failure, an injection of autologous mononuclear cells into damaged myocardia missed the primary endpoint in the sham-controlled, randomized, blinded CardiAMP ...

The first-of-its-kind TEAM-HF study seeks to improve clinical outcomes in patients with worsening heart failure Trial establishes new, objective criteria to identify patients most at risk for ...

Patients with heart failure are often advised to limit or avoid alcohol consumption altogether, as it can interfere with medications and exacerbate symptoms. Patients with heart failure are often ...

The Oklahoma Heart Institute is celebrating the opening of its new Advanced Heart Failure Center. The new heart failure center is on the campus of Hillcrest Medical Center and offers nearly 10,000 ...