Heart failure sounds alarming—and rightfully so. Yet approximately 6.5 million Americans currently live with this condition, many with the specific variant called systolic heart failure, and a ...

Heart failure sounds scary – because it is. But here’s the thing: millions of Americans are walking around right now with a specific type called systolic heart failure, and many don’t even know it.

Chicago, IL - Prolongation of the QRS interval, an electrocardiographic marker for ventricular dyssynchrony, is present in more than a third of low-LVEF patients hospitalized for acute heart failure ...

Patients hospitalized for severe COVID-19 exhibit cardiac systolic dysfunction and small vessel disease at long-term follow-up. This is according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet and ...

Through a deep-learning model, researchers have shown that ordinary ECG images can be leveraged to identify patients with an LV ejection fraction below 40%. Their approach also appears able to ...

Dual angiotensin receptor and neprilysin inhibition as an alternative to angiotensin‐converting enzyme inhibition in patients with chronic systolic heart failure: rationale for and design of the ...

Demographic, systemic sclerosis (SSc)-specific, and cardiac factors raised the risk for left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD) in a study of patients with SSc. Researchers used the Johns Hopkins ...

Severe hypothyroidism is associated with a high burden of systolic/diastolic ventricular dysfunction and myocardial deformation abnormalities.