Search Tag: CHF

2024 30 Jul

  Patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) who have impaired blood supply are at a higher risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD), with an estimated incidence of up to 22%. Current clinical guidelines recommend implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) to reduce this risk. However, these guidelines are based on studies that did not include individuals...Read more

2015 08 Jul

Common extra heartbeats that occur in the ventricles, or premature ventricular contractions (PVCs), could predict heart failure and even death, according to researchers at UC San Francisco. The research is based on more than a decade of investigation of 1,139 participants from the national Cardiovascular Health Study. “We cannot exclude the possibility...Read more

2015 10 May

In a study published online in the European Heart Journal, researchers from the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of all studies published in peer-reviewed journals between 1993-2014 that looked at the effects of digoxin on death from any cause in AF and CHF patients. 19 relevant studies...Read more