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Heart Failure – Does Testosterone Hold the Key?

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Heart failure is a chronic clinical syndrome characterised by the inability of the heart to pump out enough blood to meet the body’s requirements. Unfortunately the term ‘heart failure’ has unnecessarily negative connotations- a better term is cardiac insufficiency.

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Resynchronising the Heart in Heart Failure

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

The heart is a pump and if the heart is in some way damaged – be that by a heart attack or a virus or harmful drugs then the heart is unable to pump out enough blood to meet the body’s requirements especially when the body is asking for more blood such as during exercise.