Aims Early, slow-onset heart failure is difficult to diagnose from just signs and symptoms. The physician needs ancillary diagnostic tests. The 'loop-diuretic test' or 'furosemide test ...

The present study evaluated the diagnostic and long-term prognostic ... The primary inclusion criteria were patients presenting with acute dyspnoea and/or peripheral oedema to the emergency ...

“So there’s a lot of data to cover, and we need that data to refine that diagnostic criteria to help the patients.” Just a few years ago, heart failure was not broken into different type ...

HFpEF is a type of left-sided heart failure. Left-sided heart failure occurs when the left ventricle does not function as it should. Another type is heart failure with reduced ejection fraction ...

In the study, people’s heart failure severity had to meet a certain criteria, including having an ejection fraction of 35% or less and meeting a certain level of b-type natriuretic peptide (BNP ...

The Jones criteria is a diagnostic tool for diagnosing acute rheumatic fever (ARF). It involves testing heart function using echocardiograms, X-rays, blood tests, and other screenings. Rheumatic ...

More information: Sarah Hofer-Zeni et al, Sex differences in the diagnostic algorithm of screening for heart failure by symptoms and NT-proBNP in patients with type 2 diabetes, Cardiovascular ...

your doctor will diagnose you with cardiomyopathy if you meet the following criteria: Heart failure that develops in the last month of pregnancy or within 5 months of delivery Reduced heart ...

and two major conditions that fall under that umbrella—heart attack and heart failure—are no joke. Here’s what you should know about heart attack vs. heart failure, including the symptoms ...