Science news articles about 'acute heart failure'

... medicine to more quickly and reliably diagnose acute heart failure (AHF) in emergency room patients. ... -peptide levels (a peptide hormone released from heart muscle to help regulate body fluids and ...

Relaxine, a naturally occurring hormone that helps women adapt to pregnancy, is showing promise as a treatment for acute heart failure, a new study has found.

... , President of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC, it was not long ago that acute heart failure admissions were "overwhelming" hospitals, but the better identification of symptoms as indicative ...

... resistance to bloodflow in these vessels - and hence the work the heart has to do to pump blood through them. ... dilemma – but results showed that during acute heart failure beta-blocker therapy should ...

... helps preserve and improve kidney function during heart failure, without affecting blood pressure. ... of kidney function every time one of these acute heart failure episodes happens," says Dr. Simari. ...

TORONTO, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Canadian medical scientists say they have developed a mathematical model that more accurately diagnoses acute heart failure in hospital emergency rooms.

... improved: * Better selection of treatments. To date, he said, therapy in acute heart failure has been administered with little attention to the clinical presentation of each patient. Guidelines on ...

... 1A receptor antagonists studied in a large trial enrolling more than 2000 patients hospitalized for acute heart failure, the Placebo-controlled Randomized study of the selective A1 adenosine receptor ...