Systolic congestive heart failure, or systolic heart failure, is a type of heart failure that involves the left side of the heart. As the left side of the heart begins losing some function, it loses ...

Heart failure sounds alarming—and rightfully so. Yet approximately 6.5 million Americans currently live with this condition, many with the specific variant called systolic heart failure, and a ...

Patients with either systolic (HFrEF) or diastolic (HFpEF) heart failure usually present in the same way. Common signs and symptoms include the following: worsening fatigue; dyspnea on exertion, which ...

Chicago, IL - Prolongation of the QRS interval, an electrocardiographic marker for ventricular dyssynchrony, is present in more than a third of low-LVEF patients hospitalized for acute heart failure ...

A new study has found that even people with “normal” blood pressure in their 30s may face a higher risk of heart attacks, ...

LBBB is linked to electrical abnormalities, causing inefficient heart pumping, dilation, and systolic dysfunction. The study found LBBB associated with increased heart failure risk, surpassing other ...

The SGLT2 inhibitor medicines have changed how heart failure is managed. Originally sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors were used to lower blood sugar levels in people who have type 2 ...

Why has a 64-year-old man become increasingly short of breath over the past 2 weeks? That's what Sandra K. Rabat, DO, of A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Mesa, Arizona, and ...

If you're suffering from chronic systolic heart failure, tai chi may help. Although it may not improve your performance on a six-minute walk test, it may improve your mood, your daily activity and ...

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 ...