Ejection fraction (EF) measures the amount of blood pumped out of your heart's lower chambers, or ventricles. It's the percentage of blood that leaves your ventricle when your heart contracts. The ...

Ejection fraction is a measurement doctors can use to help diagnose heart failure. A normal range is between 52% and 72% for males and between 54% and 74% for females. An ejection fraction that ...

A low ejection fraction lets a doctor know that the active pumping phase of the heart isn't working. It's usually tied to some, but not all, types of heart failure. Heart failure with a low EF is ...

Part 3: Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction: Diagnosis and Evaluation. Part 4: Case Study: Lightheadedness, Fatigue in Man With Hypertension. Up next: Medical Management ...

An international team of researchers at the University of Manchester, Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions has discovered a natural mechanism that protects the heart from ...

A low ejection fraction, which is defined as 40% or below, indicates that the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body’s requirements. Low ejection fraction symptoms include fatigue ...

Heart failure normal ejection fraction (HFNEF) is growing at an alarming rate and has a complex pathophysiology. The mortality and morbidity of HFNEF is comparable to heart failure with reduced ...

Heart failure, a condition where the heart struggles to pump blood efficiently to meet the body's needs, comes in various forms and one of them, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction ...

Background: Standard pharmacotherapy for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) comprises “quadruple therapy” with a renin–angiotensin system inhibitor, a β-blocker, a ...

July 24, 2024 — In mice with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), increasing ketone supply to the heart allowed their hearts to utilize more ketones and produce more ...