Heart failure is a syndrome, not a specific disease, and occurs as a final common pathway in multiple disease states. The section presents a review of diastolic congestive heart failure ...

What Is Diastolic Heart Failure? A classic example of diastolic ... tachycardia, and signs of congestive failure such as rales in the lungs, and an elevated jugular venous pressure.

People can experience heart failure differently. Sometimes symptoms appear suddenly, and sometimes they develop slowly over time. The most common heart failure symptoms are shortness of breath and ...

Complications of acute M.I. occur in a time-dependent ... conduction system tissue), and hypotension and congestive heart failure (due to ischemic or injured muscle tissue, resulting in abnormal ...

Acute heart failure-acute coronary syndrome; CHF-CHD: Congestive heart failure-chronic heart disease; CRS: Cardiorenal syndrome. Reproduced with permission from [1].

Diastolic dysfunction occurs when the left ventricular myocardium is non-compliant and not able to accept blood return in a normal fashion from the left atrium. This can be a normal physiologic ...

Acute congestive cardiac failure and hypoglycemia were observed simultaneously in 27 patients with underlying heart disease. Seventeen of this group had the hypoplastic left heart syndrome, two had ...

Acute heart failure refers to sudden, severe symptoms that can also improve rapidly. Chronic heart failure is when symptoms develop slowly over time and gradually worsen. If you have congestive ...

Tatsuya Yoshida, Mikito Takefuji, and Toyoaki Murohara in the Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, identified an enzyme, alpha-kinase 2 (ALPK2) that is specifically ...

These acute mechanical effects of ... significant reductions in end-systolic and end-diastolic volumes were also demonstrated. A “second” MUSTIC (MUSTIC-AF) trial evaluated similar end points in heart ...

Congestive heart failure—often referred to as heart failure—is the term used to describe what happens when the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs. Heart failure should not ...