Rochester, Minnesota—Left ventricular dysfunction is the medical name for a weak heart pump. It's a condition that impacts about 9% of people over the age of 60. Paul Friedman, M.D., a cardiologist at ...

Heart failure occurs when the heart can't pump blood as well as it should. It can affect either the left side of the heart (left-sided heart failure) or the right side (right-sided heart failure).

A recent study revealed a high prevalence of stage B heart failure (HF) in a general clinical setting in India. The authors ...

Ventricular resection is a type of open-heart surgery to reshape and resize the heart. The surgery may help to improve survival in people with heart failure. Ventricular resection is a surgical ...

After enrolling the first patient at the top of this year in a pivotal trial of its ventricle-reshaping heart failure treatment, Ancora Heart has netted $80 million in funding to carry its device ...

Our top 5 heart failure articles of 2025 include FDA approvals, improving guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT), markers ...

A ventricular resection is a type of surgery that removes scar tissue or a tumor from a heart chamber to restore function. Often, a reconstruction or repair procedure follows this. The heart has four ...

LVNC is a structural heart problem that develops before birth. Later in life, it can cause symptoms like shortness of breath, irregular heart rhythms, and chest pain. Treatments include medications ...

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 ...