Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Congestive heart failure (CHF) and heart failure are the same thing. Both terms describe the inability of the heart to pump enough blood to service the body ...

Approximately 30–50% of patients with heart failure have normal or near normal left ventricle function ... of heart failure with normal ejection fraction is increasing. Given the current ...

But sometimes drugs can do their job too well, suppressing cardiac function — a measure known as reduced left ventricular ejection fraction ... slipped 0.6% to 55.60. Cytokinetics is working ...

Chronic heart failure occurs when either the left ventricle, the right ventricle ... HFpEF connotes diastolic dysfunction despite a normal ejection fraction. Diastolic dysfunction also occurs ...

studied 412 patients with acute myocardial infarction. A subset of 50 patients had a low left-ventricular ejection fraction (<40%) and ventricular arrhythmia, late potentials or low heart-rate ...

The study enrolled 4128 patients 60 ... ejection fraction; HF = heart failure; HR = hazard ratio; I-PRESERVE = irbesartan in heart failure with preserved systolic function; LV = left ventricular ...