Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Key Takeaways Congestive heart failure and heart failure are the same and mean the heart can't pump enough blood. Heart failure can be left-sided or ...

In the United States, about 6.2 million adults have been diagnosed with heart failure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Heart failure is a chronic condition, and ...

Cardiac cirrhosis refers to a spectrum of liver disorders that dysfunction in the heart can cause. It can occur when issues with blood circulation congest the liver and cause injury. Without healthy ...

The recent decision by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to cover tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (T-TEER) could help change the model through which physicians think ...

Some people with heart failure need to take multiple medicines each day in order to keep their symptoms under control. Heart failure not only leads to issues in the heart but other organs in the body ...

When the patient arrived, she was breathing faster than normal and had been progressively tired and sweaty when feeding. Her temperature was 97.7 °F, with pulse of 175, respiration 70, blood pressure ...

Left-sided heart failure occurs when the left ventricle of the heart is unable to adequately pump blood to the rest of the body. This is the most prevalent type of heart failure and it becomes ...

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a type of heart failure that affects the left side of the heart. It occurs when the lower left chamber of the heart, called the left ventricle ...

WASHINGTON, DC—For patients with right-sided infective endocarditis (RSIE) who don’t respond to medical therapy, percutaneous mechanical aspiration (PMA) appears to offer clinical efficacy, according ...

Every morning, Donna Whitworth turns on two device monitors for her heart. For the first device, she puts on a belt, which is hooked up to a laptop. When the belt is in the proper position, the ...