Congestive heart failure (CHF) and heart failure are the same thing. Both terms describe the inability of the heart to pump enough blood to service the body's needs. The term "congestive" simply ...

The optimal puncture site can be assessed by simultaneous detection of the characteristic downward jump of the transseptal needle onto the fossa ovalis by intracardiac ultrasound and fluoroscopy.

Heart failure is a condition that occurs when the heart can’t pump as well as it should. This may happen when the heart muscle becomes weak or stiff. As a result, it doesn’t deliver enough blood to ...

They are thought to arise from hypothetical subendothelial vasoformative reserve cells or from primitive cells which reside in the fossa ovalis and surrounding endocardium. In 1951 Prichard ...

The seemingly ordinary news of wedding plans for a young man whom she knew as a child reminds this doctor of how far medicine has come in treating cystic fibrosis — it only took a village.

The magnitude of cognitive changes after incident heart failure (HF) is unclear. We assessed whether incident HF is associated with changes in cognition after accounting for pre-HF cognitive ...

A single dose of the investigational therapy TX45 improved heart function and blood flow, or hemodynamics, in people with pulmonary hypertension and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction ...

New Computational Method Reveals Congestive Heart Failure Feb. 6, 2025 — A team of physicists has developed a groundbreaking method for detecting congestive heart failure with greater ease and ...

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During the surgery, the woman's heart was implanted with tiny patches of heart muscle cells, which had been grown from stem cells in a lab. These 10 patches, each comprised of about 400 million ...

Evidence from rhesus macaques and an individual with advanced heart failure suggests that structural and functional augmentation of the failing heart is possible. We observed long-term (up to six ...