NICE has published updated guidance on the diagnosis and management of acute heart failure (AHF). The guideline includes recommendations on diagnosis, assessment and monitoring, initial ...

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Case demonstrates initiation of a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor in a patient with type 2 diabetes and heart failure. A 56-year-old man with a history of hypertension and type 2 ...

Systolic congestive heart failure involves the left side of your heart losing its ability to pump effectively. Common ...

conditions affecting the heart muscle (cardiomyopathies and myocarditis). Around 920,000 people in the UK were living with heart failure in 2018 with an estimated 200,000 new diagnoses each year.

You can follow a treatment plan and take medications as a doctor prescribes to manage congestive heart failure. Eat a heart-healthy diet and stay physically active to slow heart failure progression.

When the heart can no longer pump blood efficiently throughout the body, kidney function issues are among the first complications to develop. Congestive heart failure (CHF), a condition that reflects ...

Why has a 64-year-old man become increasingly short of breath over the past 2 weeks? That's what Sandra K. Rabat, DO, of A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Mesa, Arizona, and ...

Alexandria Nyembwe is a registered nurse and health writer. She has worked in street medicine serving populations experiencing homelessness in Skid Row Los Angeles as well as in cardiovascular care in ...