Heart Failure

In March, three societies announced a new universal definition and classification of HF designed to standardize language and practices around the definition and classification of HF.

While not great in number, there exists a distinct subgroup of younger patients with COVID-19 but no risk factors or prior CVD who are at elevated risk for new HF, according to a research letter.

The American Heart Association and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation announced plans to launch an initiative to improve quality of and access to hospice and palliative care for patients with HF.

The diagnosis of depression is strongly associated with increased risk for sudden cardiac death and HF events in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, researchers reported.

Among patients with atrial fibrillation, biomarkers of inflammation were associated with hospitalization for HF, researchers reported.

Despite the introduction of financial penalties for U.S. hospitals with high HF readmission rates, HF readmission rates rose from 2010 to 2017, according to a new analysis in Circulation: Heart Failure.

Echocardiographic and clinical differences by sex in older patients with HFpEF.

Relationship between global electrical heterogeneity and sustained ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation in patients with HF and an implantable cardioverter defibrillator.

The benefits of empagliflozin compared with placebo for HF with reduced ejection fraction occurred regardless of health status at baseline, according to a secondary analysis of the EMPEROR-Reduced trial.

According to two meta-analyses, a mitral contour system for functional mitral regurgitation conferred not only good clinical results, but also positive patient-based outcomes.