Ancora Heart kicked off a European clinical study for its device designed to directly repair an enlarged left ventricle from the inside, as a treatment for patients suffering from heart failure. The ...

CHICAGO, IL — AUGMENT HF, a phase 2 trial of 78 patients with advanced heart failure, showed that an injection of the novel hydrogel Algisyl-LVR hydrogel (LoneStar Heart, Dallas, TX) into their left ...

Elevated left ventricular mass, known as left-ventricular hypertrophy, is a stronger predictor of coronary artery disease-related death and heart failure than coronary artery calcium score, according ...

Despite the fact that patients with diastolic heart failure usually have a normal ejection fraction, it has been proposed that significant abnormalities in left-ventricular systolic function are an ...

Ventricular resection can significantly improve your life span if you have severe heart failure due to an enlarged left ventricle. If you have an enlarged heart (also known as cardiomegaly), it means ...

Sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors reduce the risk of hospitalization for heart failure and cardiovascular death among patients with chronic heart failure and a left ventricular ...

Whether revascularization by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can improve event-free survival and left ventricular function in patients with severe ischemic left ventricular systolic ...

Because life expectancy and the prevalence of risk factors such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes are rising globally, heart failure (HF) is growing into a major health problem. Impairment of left ...

The meeting will feature sessions on AI in heart failure, advanced LVAD technologies, cardiac xenotransplantation, and more.

Ventricular resection is a type of open-heart surgery to reshape and resize the heart. The surgery may help to improve survival in people with heart failure. Ventricular resection is a surgical ...

A ventricular resection is a type of surgery that removes scar tissue or a tumor from a heart chamber to restore function. Often, a reconstruction or repair procedure follows this. The heart has four ...