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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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Results of Tenax Therapeutics’ Phase 2 HELP study of levosimendan in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) demonstrated that I.V. Getty Images milla1cf Mon, 05/06/2024 - 10:48 May 6, 2024 — Tenax Therapeutics, Inc. ,

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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in Fabry disease: is it an early marker of cardiomyopathy?

Heart BMJ

Cardiomyopathy is a primary determinant of prognosis in FD and typically presents as a heart failure (HF) with a preserved ejection fraction phenotype. 4 Indeed, the use of CPET is recognised in HF guidelines 5 and parameters such as peak oxygen consumption (VO 2peak ) offer a.

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Mavacamten linked to cardiac biomarker improvements in HFpEF patients

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Mavacamten, a drug initially developed to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, has shown signs of reducing heart stress in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

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Healthy longevity-associated protein improves cardiac function in murine models of cardiomyopathy with preserved ejection fraction

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Aging is influenced by genetic determinants and comorbidities, among which diabetes increases the risk for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. There is no therapy to prevent heart dysfunction in ag.

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Mavacamten Shows Promise in Heart Failure With Normal to Supranormal EF

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- There may be a future for cardiac myosin inhibitors in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), according to the proof-of-concept EMBARK-HFpEF trial. An established cardiac myosin inhibitor for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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Top 10: Must-reads from the Month of May

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American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) Issue New Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) Management Guidelines 2. Geisinger Enrolls First Patient in Amyloid Cardiomyopathy Trial 9. Here is a look at the Top 10 pieces of content viewers were reading during the month of May.

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Genetic, clinical and imaging implications of a noncompaction phenotype population with preserved ejection fraction

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Results Of the LVNC population, 24% carried pathogenic or likely pathogenic (P) mutations; 56% carried variants of uncertain significance (VUS); and 20% were free from cardiomyopathy-related mutations. Medical data suggesting a higher risk of cardiovascular complications were considered “red flags”.