Search Tag: chronic heart failure
2022 15 Feb
The new ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure outline ten key messages: The guidelines recommend an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor, a beta-blocker, a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, and a sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor to reduce...Read more
2017 01 May
Researchers at Indiana University are creating new information technology so patients with chronic heart failure can have easy access to their own health data. The new technology, called Power to the Patient, is intended to enable quick and preventative action to protect these patients, the researchers say. See Also : New Tools to Design Personalised...Read more
2015 12 Jan
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy: failing to accept illness is associated with poorer quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure. According to a research study in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, patients with lower illness acceptance also suffered low energy levels, limited mobility, negative and draining emotional feelings,...Read more
2014 12 Sep
According to the Ferric CarboxymaltOse evaluatioN on perFormance in patients with IRon deficiency in coMbination with chronic heart failure (CONFIRM) study, presented at the recent European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Barcelona, treating symptomatic heart failure in patients with iron deficiency using intravenous ferric carboxymaltose resulted...Read more