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Original Source: Sleep Disordered Breathing in Patients with Heart Failure: Pathophysiology and Management.
OPINION STATEMENT: Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is common in heart failure patients across the range of ejection fractions and is associated with adverse prognosis. Although effective pharmacologic and device-based treatment of heart failure may reduce the frequency or severity of SDB, heart failure treatment alone may not be adequate to restore normal breathing during sleep. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the major treatment for SDB in heart failure, especially if obstructive rather than...
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Hallucinations of musical notation
Professor of neurology, physician, and author Oliver Sacks M.D. has outlined case studies of hallucinations of musical notation, and commented on the neural basis of such hallucinations, in a new pape...
Hallucinations Of Musical Notation: New Paper For Neurology Journal Brain by Oliver Sacks
Professor of neurology, physician, and author Oliver Sacks M.D. has outlined case studies of hallucinations of musical notation, and commented on the neural basis of such hallucinations, in a new pape...
Heart Failure Pacemaker Could Help Less Severe Cases Too
Patients with milder forms of heart failure may also benefit from having a pacemaker inserted, not only those with severe heart failure, researchers from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, reported in...
Heart failure set to spike in US, Heart Association says
Cases of heart failure – a chronic and expensive condition – are set to spike 46 percent by 2030, the American Heart Association projected on Wednesday. As Americans get older, and more of...
Orlando, FL - Dr. P. Phillips Hospital Receives Full Heart Failure Accreditation Status
Dr. P. Phillips Hospital Heart Failure Program has been awarded full Heart Failure Accreditation status from the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care (SCPC). Dr. P. Phillips Hospital has been awar...
First UK trials of heart failure gene therapy
US Biotech Celladon is funding some gene therapy research against heart failure. The first UK trials of gene therapy for heart failure have begun. The British Heart Foundation at Imperial College Lon...
More Heart Failure Patients Could Be Helped By Advanced Pacemaker
A new study from Karolinska Institutet demonstrates that a change in the ECG wave called the QRS prolongation is associated with a higher rate of heart-failure mortality. According to the team that ca...
Heart failure successes not seen in younger patients
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Though fewer American adults were hospitalized with heart failure during the last decade, hospitalization rates among heart failure patients under age 55 saw the least chan...
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Epidemiology of Anemia in Heart Failure.
Anemia is being increasingly recognized as an important comorbidity in patients with heart failure. Despite wide variations in defining anemia, approximately one-fifth to one-third of patients with he...
Systolic and diastolic heart failure are overlapping phenotypes within the heart failure spectrum.
This study sought to determine the potential pathophysiological link between anemia and disease severity, and adverse outcome in heart failure (HF).
Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) is a disorder in which psychologically normal people, often with vision impairment, experience complex visual hallucinations. The hallucinations are purely visual and do...
Treatment options in end-stage heart failure: where to go from here?
Chronic heart failure is a major healthcare problem associated with high morbidity and mortality. Despite significant progress in treatment strategies, the prognosis of heart failure patients remains...
