Science news articles about 'systolic dysfunction'

... particularly since specific, evidence-based treatments are not available for the majority of patients with preserved systolic dysfunction, reports a study in the June issue of the Journal of Cardiac ...

... for kidney transplants were almost six-fold higher than the reported mortality for individuals with systolic dysfunction in the general population. The study “identifies a subset of the chronic ...

... and barely pumping." "In other words, the test only picked up patients who had diastolic and systolic dysfunction," he says. "But now, we can use the diastolic filling curve on a nuclear stress test ...

... damaged heart muscle that results in diminished pumping action — called left ventricular systolic dysfunction — are candidates for ICDs to prevent death from life-threatening arrhythmias. The tiny ...

... death or all-cause hospitalization in patients with medically stable chronic heart failure due to systolic dysfunction (impaired contraction of the heart). Patients in the study (n = 2,331; median [ ...

... Physiological Predictors of Sleep Apnea in Patients with Heart Failure and Systolic Dysfunction," was authored by Dai Yumino, Hanqiao Wang, John S. Floras, Gary E. Newton, Susanna Mak, ...

... looking at use of the aldosterone antagonist eplerenone in patients with mild heart failure (NYHA II, Ejection Fraction <30%) and systolic dysfunction.