congestive heart failure

Implantable device to manage congestive heart failure symptoms

harminka — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:13:35 -0500

Northwestern Memorial’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute is one of seven programs in the country participating in new study aimed at improving the heart’s pumping action and helping to manage congestive heart failure symptoms.

Elderly heart patients with ICD devices live longer after heart failure

harminka — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:41:44 -0500

Elderly patients diagnosed with congestive heart failure who receive implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death live longer than those that do not, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine. Further, the health care costs associated with ICDs, while substantial at the time of implantation, do not greatly increase downstream health care costs in this population.

Congestive heart failure leads to greater disability

harminka — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:53:29 -0600

Medical breakthroughs in recent decades have allowed heart attack survivors and other heart-disease patients to live longer. But as their hearts decline into congestive heart failure, an increasing number will experience disability and the need for nursing-home care.

Why age is a risk factor for heart failure

harminka — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:25:04 -0600

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have evidence to explain why the supposedly natural act of aging is by itself a very potent risk factor for life-threatening heart failure.

Heart failure is rare among leukemia patients on imatinib

harminka — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:33:09 -0500

Congestive heart failure rarely occurs among leukemia patients who take imatinib, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center found after an exhaustive review of the detailed medical histories of 1,276 patients who enrolled in clinical trials for the drug.

Rural work ethic to delay elderly heart patients from seeking care

harminka — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:29:21 -0500

A strong work ethic and sense of place appear to influence how elderly rural Albertans with congestive heart failure manage their illness, in that these values may delay them from seeking help at critical times, a University of Alberta study shows.

Doctors try to save patients with heart failure

Dinka — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:02:22 -0500

American doctors are starting a dramatic experiment this month to try to save patients dying from congestive heart failure by temporarily resting their hearts, then boosting them with a drug long abused for bodybuilding.

Using gene therapy to reverse heart failure in animals

harminka — Thu, 24 May 2007 12:14:32 -0500

Heart researchers at the Center for Translational Medicine at Jefferson Medical College have used gene therapy to reverse heart failure in animals. In addition, they found that this gene therapy strategy had "unique and additive effects" to currently used, standard heart failure drugs called beta-blockers.

300,000 Americans die of congestive heart failure each year

harminka — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:38:35 -0600

Safer way to dose life-saving heart drug

harminka — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:52:48 -0600