DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband is 73 and was diagnosed with heart failure and a severely dilated left ventricle. At the time, he was pumping 10 liters per minute. He had a proBNP natriuretic peptide level ...

Advanced heart failure is when heart failure progresses to the most severe stage. When you have advanced heart failure, your blood pressure, blood flow, kidney and liver function, exercise capacity, ...

Heart Failure Awareness Week (HFAW), which takes place February 11-17 2024, was created to encourage education and awareness on heart failure and best practices for prevention.¹ While the entirety of ...

Congestive heart failure and heart failure are the same and mean the heart can't pump enough blood. Heart failure can be left-sided or right-sided, affecting different parts of the heart. Different ...

Heart failure is a chronic and serious condition, where the heart muscle cannot pump blood properly. This causes fluid ...

New drugs and a growing awareness of the common condition offer hope for patients. By Nina Agrawal Ann Ramirez first noticed something was wrong when, at age 48, she started waking up in the middle of ...

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a type of heart failure that affects the left side of the heart. It occurs when the lower left chamber of the heart, called the left ventricle ...

Most people who undergo chemotherapy do not develop heart failure. However, specific chemotherapy drugs may significantly increase your risk of heart failure and other cardiac problems. Chemotherapy ...