Heart Failure
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Heart Failure Is Increasing in Younger Adults
Once seen mostly in older adults with a history of heart disease, it’s becoming increasingly common in younger people.
How Sudden Temperature Changes Affect Your Heart
Sudden temperature swings can be dangerous for some people, including older adults and people with heart disease.
Cardiac Amyloidosis: A Hidden Cause of Heart Failure Is Now Treatable
Once considered rare, new drug therapies have greatly improved outcomes for the condition, now recognized as a common cause of heart failure.
Heart Transplant Recipient Is Back to Work and Attending Broadcasting School
After receiving a heart transplant at UH Harrington Heart & Vascular, Pierre Mays of Akron, Ohio, is back to living a healthy, active life.
Implantable Device Can Improve Cardiac Function in Heart Failure Patients
An innovative therapy called cardiac contractility modulation can improve symptoms of heart failure for patients like Lela Glass.
How Heart Disease Affects the Kidneys
The heart and kidneys share a special, life-sustaining connection, so that what’s good or bad for one is generally good or bad for the other.
Genetic Testing Helps Woman Beat Inherited Cardiomyopathy
Heart patient DeAnn Bartram has a good prognosis after genetic testing helps identify her hereditary arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy – a condition that claimed the lives of her two sisters.
From Nursing Student to Needing Nursing
Myocarditis patient Carmen Darien recovers after being placed on veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenatio, or ECMO.