A noteworthy case study. How to help a teenage girl with familial hypercholesterolemia who has chest pains and is ...

Natriuretic peptide levels may be normal in patients who have heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction, particularly in obese patients or those with symptoms only on exertion. Right heart ...

for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (PH-HFpEF). The LEVEL study will evaluate six-minute walking distance (6MWD) as the primary endpoint ...

But some people will ask me for their ejection fraction (EF) number if they’ve read about it, or had it discussed with them. This is especially true if they want to know if it’s changing over ...

This is particularly the case in patients with obesity, who often have significantly lower BNP levels than their nonobese counterparts. In the patient with dyspnea who has an LV ejection fraction ...

In this particular test of healthy patients, the drug was well tolerated, but more importantly, didn't lead to lowered left ventricular ejection fraction levels. That is to say, the treatment ...

to commence clinical development for the treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Imara plans to initiate a Phase 2 trial in the second quarter of 2022 to evaluate ...

Overall, the rate of serious adverse events was similar across the groups, but rates of hyperkalemia - elevated levels of potassium ... regardless of the ejection fraction and even in patients ...

Among iron-deficient patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), receiving ... defined as a blood ferritin level of less than 100 ng/mL or a blood ferritin level of 100-299 ...

Several epidemiological studies confirm that the prevalence of heart failure with normal ejection fraction is increasing. Given the current trends, heart failure with normal ejection fraction will ...

"Medical Journeys" chart a path each step of the way for ... groups based on readily available left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) measurements. It became clear that ejection fraction ...