Patients with ejection fraction <40% were excluded ... placebo on the functional status of elderly patients with diastolic heart failure. [21] This was a smaller study that enrolled 74 patients ...

Diastolic heart failure is defined clinically when signs and symptoms of heart failure are present in the presence of preserved left ventricular systolic function (ejection fraction >45%).

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Diastolic dysfunction is a heart condition that happens when there is a “stiffening ...

BACKGROUND: Despite the high morbidity and mortality of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), treatment ...

Of note, diastolic heart failure disproportionately affects women, particularly elderly women. ‘These data confirm that heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, also know as diastolic ...

Patients who have been treated for heart failure and experience an improvement in their pump function are still at higher ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for Priority Review the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for finerenone for the treatment of ...

Living with a heart that struggles to pump effectively creates daily challenges for millions of Americans. Systolic heart ...

Inter-atrial shunt device therapy has shown mixed results in clinical trials, with clinical 'non-responders' typically showing features of more advanced heart failure. We aimed to analyse the ...

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), also called diastolic heart failure, occurs when the heart’s left ...

There are two main kinds. The first type is the one Ms. Ramirez experienced, known as heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, in which the heart muscle is weak and does not squeeze out as ...

USA: Researchers have found in a recent randomized clinical trial, HuMAIN-HFpEF, that among patients with obesity-related ...