Enhancement of self-care ability is essential for patients with heart failure (HF), and executive function plays a critical role. We investigated the clinical influence of a home-based remote care ...

Physician-scientists from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine recently conducted a large-scale analysis to assess the impact of a newly introduced equation ...

It is a common perception that approximately 50% of heart failure (HF) patients present with a normal or near-normal left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction ("HF with preserved systolic function"), ...

Researchers at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, and the University of Utah School of Medicine, have demonstrated that a gene therapy can ...

Heart failure is a serious health condition that affects millions of people worldwide. Although the name sounds alarming, ...

Heart failure is a decline in cardiac function caused by a variety of conditions that reduce myocardial contractility and can lead to cardiovascular events with poor prognosis. 1 With the development ...

Heart failure and atrial fibrillation are among the most common heart conditions affecting older adults. For many years, ...

A new gene therapy can reverse the effects of heart failure and restore heart function in a large animal model. The therapy increases the amount of blood the heart can pump and dramatically improves ...

During embryonic development, the right ventricle is formed from the secondary heart field into a crescent-shaped, thin-walled structure. 6 It is the most anterior heart chamber, sitting just beneath ...

Many people wonder if renal failure is the same as kidney failure. In short, they are different names for the same condition. A person has kidney failure, or renal failure, if their kidneys can no ...