High output and low output heart failure refer to how much blood your heart pumps to your body with each heartbeat. In both cases, the output is not enough to meet your body’s needs. A diagnosis of ...

Low output heart failure occurs in people with heart failure who have little or no lung congestion. In these situations, the main problem tends to be that the heart muscle has become so extremely weak ...

Arginine vasopressin (AVP), also known as antidiuretic hormone, is a nonapeptide secreted from the posterior pituitary gland. The primary stimulus for the secretion of AVP is a rise in serum ...

When Sherry Mansour, MD, assistant professor of medicine (nephrology), first began her training at Yale, she was struck by ...

Medtronic Plc MDT has recalled certain implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds) with glassed feedthrough. The FDA has identified ...

Some people with heart failure need to take multiple medicines each day in order to keep their symptoms under control. Heart failure not only leads to issues in the heart but other organs in the body ...

How Does Jardiance Work for Heart Failure? Jardiance helps to lower the workload on the heart. Normally, the kidneys filter in a way that keeps all of the sugar in the bloodstream rather than allowing ...