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Ohio State First in Central Ohio to Use Novel Heart Failure Therapy

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milla1cf Mon, 02/26/2024 - 12:40 February 26, 2024 — More than 6 million Americans live with heart failure , and about half have an enlarged left ventricle, which causes stress on the heart and less blood pumped with each heartbeat. Patients may experience trouble breathing and fatigue, and at times require hospitalization.

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Remote patient monitoring in heart failure: A comprehensive meta‐analysis of effective programme components for hospitalization and mortality reduction

European Journal of Heart Failure

Remote patient monitoring in heart failure (HF). Abstract Aims Methods of non-invasive remote patient monitoring (RPM) for heart failure (HF) remain diverse. A random-effects meta-analysis assessed outcomes, and additional analyses identified effective RPM components.

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Machine Learning Informs a New Tool to Guide Treatment for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

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Matthew Segar co-authored a study in JACC Heart Failure led by his research and residency mentor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center's Dr. Ambarish Pandey , that utilized a machine learning-based-approach to identify, understand, and predict diuretic responsiveness in patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF).

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Tenax Therapeutics Announces New U.S. Patent Covering the Use of Levosimendan in Pulmonary Hypertension with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (PH-HFpEF)

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The primary outcome measure for the study is change in six-minute walk distance from Baseline to Week 12. Initially discovered and developed by Orion Corporation in Finland, intravenous levosimendan is approved in 60 countries outside the United States for use in hospitalized patients with acutely decompensated heart failure.

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BioCardia Doses First Patient in CardiALLO Phase I/II Clinical Trial of BCDA-03 Allogeneic Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of Ischemic Heart Failure of Reduced Ejection Fraction

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Getty Images milla1cf Tue, 12/19/2023 - 18:09 December 19, 2023 — BioCardia, Inc. , Getty Images milla1cf Tue, 12/19/2023 - 18:09 December 19, 2023 — BioCardia, Inc. , This study follows BioCardia’s three previous co-sponsored clinical trials with MSCs in ischemic heart failure: TACHFT 1 , POSEIDON 2 and TRIDENT 3.

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Clinical characteristics and mortality risk factors in pediatric hypertrophic, restrictive, and rapidly progressive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a retrospective cohort study with follow-up

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Demographic, clinical, and diagnostic data, as well as follow-up outcomes, were reviewed. Infection (75.47%, 160/212) and heart failure (51.42%, 109/212) were common comorbidities. Patients with RP-HCM showed the poorest outcomes, with a follow-up mortality rate of 42.86%.

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The 2023 ESC heart failure guideline update and its implications for clinical practice

The British Journal of Cardiology

In this article we focus on areas of the European Society for Cardiology (ESC) heart failure guideline 2023 update that will be most relevant in the day-to-day management of patients with heart failure.