Living with Heart Failure

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An overview of the treatment of heart failure.

Symptoms of heart failure are usually due to pulmonary congestion, poor cardiac pumping function or cardiac arrhythmias.

A discussion of how heart failure is diagnosed.

Here is what you need to know if you have heart failure.

The causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy.

Diastolic dysfunction and diastolic heart failure occur when the heart's ventricles become too stiff, leading to impaired filling of the ventricles with blood.

Treating diastolic dysfunction and diastolic heart failure depends mainly on treating underlying causes, such as hypertension and coronary artery disease.

While diastolic dysfunction often does not cause symptoms, diastolic heart failure causes extreme and often acute episodes of shortness of breath. Diagnosing diastolic dysfunction and diastolic heart failure often presents a challenge.

When heart failure is accompanied by fluid buildup in the lungs, it is called congestive heart failure.

Treating heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy requires the aggressive use of beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, and often diuretics.

A discussion of the many medical conditions that can cause dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure.

articles on the treatment of heart failure

Mortality rates from diastolic heart failure similar to rates from classic heart failure

Some unique aspects of heart failure in women.

Patients with heart failure are still undertreated, and those with high-risk heart failure disproportionately so

new guidelines for treating heart failure

Symptom: cough

Diastolic dysfunction and diastolic heart failure are important cardiac conditions that are more common than once thought.

Quality of heart failure care varies from place to place

Steps that should be taken to prevent heart failure after a heart attack.

Overweight patients have a higher risk of developing heart failure

A novel treatment for heart failure

Beta blockers are good for heart failure

A brief description of the status of using the hormone EPO for heart disease.

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) yields remarkable results in some patients with heart failure.

Women with heart failure do poorly with digoxin

ACE inhibitors are an important part of the treatment for heart failure

A review of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Certain diabetic drugs are dangerous in patients with significant heart failure - but docs are still prescribing them.

Here are some of the gradual symptoms of heart failure

Genetics and cardiac hypertrophy

Drugs to avoid in heart failure

How to prevent heart failure

Loop diuretics for heart failure

Coughing can be an important symptom of heart failure

Spironolactone for heart failure

beta blockers for heart failure

amlodipine for heart failure

Gene therapy and stem cell therapy for heart failure are both in their early investigational stages, and a lot more work has to be done before they become widely available.

A review of ARB therapy and heart failure

Isosorbide dinitrate and heart failure

Dopamine and heart failure

Hydralazine for heart failure

Eplerenone for heart failure

Dobutamine for heart failure

Milrinone for heart failure

Nesiritide for heart failure

ACE inhibitors for heart failure

A discussion of the use of digoxin for heart failure

A left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is a battery driven pump that helps a failing heart to pump more effectively.

Here is a description of the World Health Organization classification of pulmonary hypertension.

Pulmonary hypertension is elevated pressure in the pulmonary artery. Here's what you should know about it.

A review of the treatments available for pulmonary hypertension.

Cardiomyopathy is a term that refers to heart muscle disease.

Several different types of medication have been proven effective in the treatment of heart failure.

A discussion of restrictive cardiomyopathy, an abnormal "stiffness" of the heart muscle that can lead to heart failure.

All about myocarditis - heart muscle inflammation.

There is evidence that sildenafil (Viagra) might be beneficial in some people who have diastolic heart failure.