Heart Failure
Commentary
The new heart failure: A call for new research initiatives
Progress in treating ischemic heart disease has resulted in more patients with heart failure, and we must work to develop more effective heart...
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: ICDs cut mortality in younger, healthier heart failure patients
Key clinical point: Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators significantly cut the rate of sudden cardiac death in patients with nonishemic...
News
Inadequate diversity snags hypertrophic cardiomyopathy genetic linkages
Key clinical point: Five high-frequency genetic variants that collectively had been linked to 74% of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy cases are...
News
Solid INRs on warfarin don’t predict future stability
Six months of stable INRs while on warfarin therapy doesn’t predict continued INR stability.
News
Statement warns of drugs causing or exacerbating heart failure
Conference Coverage
Insomnia in young men boosts cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk
DENVER – Insomnia symptoms are associated with increased cardiovascular and cerebrovascular event rates in young to middle-aged men.
News
Escitalopram falls short in patients with heart failure and depression
News
Elusive evidence pervades ESC’s 2016 heart failure guidelines
FLORENCE, ITALY – The new European heart failure guidelines underscore the great dependence that many new approaches have on expert opinion rather...
Conference Coverage
LAA occlusion studied for stroke prevention in atrial fib with prior intracerebral hemorrhage
PARIS – Left atrial appendage occlusion appears to be better than medical management for stroke prevention in patients with AF and prior...
Commentary
New heart failure interventions face outcomes test
Commentary
New heart failure guidelines
Although the two new heart failure drugs that are the focus of a new guideline update are improvements to the current therapeutic options, the...