Heart sounds are one tool providers use to assess heart health. Learn about systolic, diastolic, and S1 to S4 heart sounds in ...

The following is a summary of “Impact of Exercise on Atrial Functional Mitral Regurgitation and Its Determinants: An Exercise ...

Normal or mildly abnormal LV systolic function (LV EF >50% or LV end-diastolic volume ... Valsartan Heart Failure Trial; VALIANT: Valsartan In Acute Myocardial Infarction Trial.

Acute heart failure (AHF) results from the acute or subacute onset ... Thus, while all episodes of AHF are accompanied by an increase in LV end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP), there are certain patients ...

Endothelial dysfunction in the coronary arteries can lead to acute coronary events ... study in patients with mild heart failure, 2 left ventricular mass index (a measure of hypertrophy) and left ...

Ultimately, a total of 222 patients with acute decompensated heart failure and 103 control patients were enrolled ... left ventricular end‐diastolic diameter, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ...

In 2017, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) determined that systolic blood pressure (the top number of a blood pressure reading) should be below 120 ...

respiratory failure or previously required mechanical ventilation: (1) mechanically ventilated prior to surgery, (2) had history of preoperative trauma, sepsis, aspiration, shock, acute congestive ...

New research explores how point-of-care lung ultrasound can improve prehospital identification of acute heart failure ...

Researchers from Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical ...