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Heart failure in low-income and middle-income countries

Heart BMJ

Heart failure (HF) is a complex syndrome which leads to significant morbidity and mortality, poor quality of life and extremely high costs to healthcare systems worldwide. In this review, we aim to comprehensively describe the burden of HF from an LMIC perspective, based on the more recent available data.

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Cardiovascular outcomes in long COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Care for survivors after an acute attack of COVID-19 should include paying close attention to cardiovascular health and disease.Systematic Review RegistrationPROSPERO [CRD42022353965].

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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)

DAIC

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. Getty Images milla1cf Mon, 05/06/2024 - 10:48 May 6, 2024 — Tenax Therapeutics, Inc. ,

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Pulse pressure and aortic valve peak velocity as new predictors of heart failure in patients post-myocardial infarction

Heart BMJ

Heart failure (HF) is one of the significant complications in patients with myocardial infarction (MI), leading to increased risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Common predictors include older age, prior hypertension, diabetes and atrial fibrillation. HFrEF is more commonly.

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Identifying etiologies of heart failure using non-contrast cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: cine imaging, T1 and T2 mapping, and texture analysis for T1 mapping

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

ObjectiveThe aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the usefulness of non-contrast cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, including cine imaging, T1 and T2 mapping, and texture analysis for T1 mapping, for identifying etiologies of heart failure (HF).MethodsForty-seven MethodsForty-seven patients with HF were examined using a 1.5T

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Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: the therapeutic assessment

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) is a severe and complex condition that evolves from unresolved pulmonary embolism, leading to fibrotic obstruction of pulmonary arteries, pulmonary hypertension, and potential right heart failure.

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Data Demonstrates Favorable Impact of AVIM Therapy on Diastolic Dysfunction

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The retrospective analysis of data from the MODERATO II study demonstrated that AVIM therapy significantly improved echocardiographic (Echo) markers of diastolic dysfunction, an important component in the development of heart failure, in hypertensive patients. Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist, Duke Health on Feb.