A 65-year-old woman presents to her primary care provider with a chief complaint of "feeling winded" for the last 3 weeks.

While once considered a terminal diagnosis, significant advances in understanding, prevention, and treatment have transformed the prognosis for many patients. Heart failure represents the leading ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a genetic disease that causes the heart muscle to become thicker, making it harder for the ...

and proposes to address this question by randomizing 190 patients with a clinical diagnosis of heart failure and left ventricular ejection fraction ≥50% to treatment with sildenafil or placebo ...

Doxazosin remains a commonly used antihypertensive medication, although its use has been tainted by recent findings from the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack ...

Foot edema: when heart failure shows in swollen ankles Swelling in the feet and ankles, medically termed edema, frequently signals heart failure—sometimes before other symptoms emerge.

AFib is an abnormal heart rhythm and can be continuous or come and go (paroxysmal). AFib puts people at a higher risk for ...

Specifically, researchers discovered a link between a heart failure diagnosis and having problems with a broad range of mental processes, such as memory, paying attention, and planning.

A new study puts the spotlight on the rising burden of ischemic heart disease across Southeast ... Depending on the symptoms and risk, treatment may be with medication, percutaneous coronary ...

To mark Heart Failure Awareness Week, north Cumbrian specialist nurses are raising awareness of the symptoms and treatment of the condition. It is believed that one million people in the UK live ...

An Israeli study has identified TRIM63 as a significant genetic contributor to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)—the most common hereditary heart disease worldwide. The findings, published in ...