How to treat the many heart failure patients who present with preserved ejection fraction has remained a question -- now PEP-CHF reports the benefit of RAS inhibition in these patients.

To the Editor: In their Video in Clinical Medicine, Prada et al. (Nov. 24 issue) 1 summarize the assessment of right ventricular systolic function with cardiac ultrasonography. Even though the ...

The heart is a muscle like no other, beating 60 to 100 times per minute on average, around the clock. But when it grows weak, it can lead to serious problems: from debilitating shortness of breath and ...

Right ventricular systolic function evaluated through VO2 max is a more accurate measure of functional capacity of persons with heart failure compared with left ventricular systolic function.

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 ...

The left ventricular end-systolic volume index is used as a clinical assessment of the systolic function of the heart.

Table 2 compares stages and class. Systolic heart failure is caused by a progressive deterioration of heart function and sometimes can take years before symptoms manifest.

Background Stroke volume is an established echocardiographic marker but has not been widely studied in patients with ...

High blood pressure affects nearly half of people in the U.S. If you have it, here's what to know about the American Heart ...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a diagnosis of exclusion. The differential diagnosis includes preexisting structural heart disease, preeclampsia-induced pulmonary edema in the absence of systolic ...