Congestive heart failure and heart failure are the same and mean the heart can't pump enough blood. Heart failure can be left-sided or right-sided, affecting different parts of the heart. Different ...

Heart failure is a serious medical condition that affects millions of people around the world. Despite its name, heart ...

Heart attack and heart failure are two distinct but often confused cardiovascular conditions. A heart attack occurs suddenly when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked, causing tissue ...

The recent decision by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to cover tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (T-TEER) could help change the model through which physicians think ...

A patient fact sheet outlining the differences between heart failure and cardiomyopathy, including subtypes of each condition and diagnostic procedures for both. Cardiomyopathy is a group of heart ...

Some people with heart failure need to take multiple medicines each day in order to keep their symptoms under control. Heart failure not only leads to issues in the heart but other organs in the body ...

Some people feel uncomfortable sleeping on the left side (if they have heart failure or recent procedures/pacemakers), and may prefer sleeping on the right side, says Puja Mehta, M.D., director of ...

The SGLT2 inhibitor medicines have changed how heart failure is managed. Originally sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors were used to lower blood sugar levels in people who have type 2 ...