The mortality and morbidity of congestive heart failure (CHF ... We call the interaction between chronic renal failure, CHF and anemia the cardiorenal anemia syndrome. Each of these three elements ...

In infants with cardiomyopathy-associated chronic HF, baseline LVEF of less than 40% and β blocker use indicate a decreased chance of LVEF normalization.

Introduction A robust and systematic approach is key to ensuring that people living with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) receive a timely and accurate diagnosis and ...

People with heart disease — and more specifically, heart failure — are extremely vulnerable to air pollution-induced ...

Discover why high-flow nasal oxygen therapy is a comfortable and effective alternative to traditional noninvasive ventilation ...

Winters in Utah usually come with inversions, smoggy lines of stagnant pollution dividing the Salt Lake Valley. And often, ...

Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a life-threatening condition characterized by acute deterioration of liver function in patients with pre-existing chronic liver disease. It is often ...

While previous research has shown that people with some chronic health conditions, like heart failure, coronary disease ... not as capable in responding to acute inflammation as people who ...

Although diuretics do not directly treat the pathologic changes that occur with heart ... chronic CHF and chronic renin hypersecretion, intravenous loop diuretics may cause an acute increase ...

Factors portending the greatest risk for cardiovascular death in control patients were inflammation (baseline plasma high-sensitivity C-reactive protein ≥2 mg/L; p=0.003) and ischemic HFrEF etiology ...