Despite remarkable success in treatments, many interventions are palliative rather than curative, and patients often develop cardiac complications, including heart failure (HF). HF management in the ...

For patients with heart failure and reduced or mildly reduced left ventricular ejection fraction, iron deficiency is common and associated with more severe symptoms, worse quality of life and an ...

Background For the treatment of breathlessness in heart failure (HF), most textbooks advocate the use of opioids. Yet, meta-analyses are lacking. Methods A systematic review was performed for ...

University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg, and German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Germany nDepartment of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Medical University of ...

Among other findings, Get With The Guidelines—Heart Failure data challenged longstanding assumptions that individuals with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction had more favorable ...

The normal function of the human myocardium requires the proper generation ... and infiltrative deficiencies of the heart muscle. Mitochondrial and enzyme defects predominate as disease-related ...

Aims: Left ventricular longitudinal strain (LVGLS) is a robust parameter for predicting adverse events in patients who have undergone a heart transplant (HTx ... with good tracking quality were ...