Heart failure is a chronic condition and doesn’t go away. But you can always work with your doctor to treat the symptoms and in some cases even improve the course of your disease.

That’s a heart muscle disorder. The end result can be chronic heart failure. Most people, though, get heart failure because they’re vulnerable to certain risk factors.

Plus, most symptoms of heart failure, especially when the condition becomes chronic, can be vague or feel like other health conditions—so some people can have heart failure and not even know it.

Heart failure affects 6.2 million adults living in the United States. It may be acute with symptoms developing quickly or chronic with symptoms worsening over time as heart muscles weaken.

The guidance, which updates NICE’s 2018 clinical recommendations, advises earlier treatment for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction ( HFrEF). NICE said that clinical practice is ...

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is noted for symptoms of heart failure, LVEF of at least 50%, and cardiac or structural abnormalities. Treatment includes diuretics and SGLT2 inhibitors.

Physician-scientists announced today the results of the largest cell therapy trial to date in patients with chronic heart failure due to low ejection fraction. The therapy benefited patients by ...

Heart failure can be chronic (the disease worsens over time) or acute (the disease begins suddenly). Chronic heart failure may commonly be referred to as congestive heart failure. We treat several ...