Heart failure and atrial fibrillation are among the most common heart conditions affecting older adults. For many years, ...

Kidney disease often develops silently without noticeable symptoms. Know the early warning signs, risk factors, and when to ...

The drug finerenone significantly slows the decline in kidney function in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who do ...

Finerenone reduced kidney function decline and cardiovascular-kidney events in non-diabetic CKD. Find out more from the ...

It is a common perception that approximately 50% of heart failure (HF) patients present with a normal or near-normal left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction ("HF with preserved systolic function"), ...

Researchers at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, and the University of Utah School of Medicine, have demonstrated that a gene therapy can ...

A new gene therapy can reverse the effects of heart failure and restore heart function in a large animal model. The therapy increases the amount of blood the heart can pump and dramatically improves ...

During embryonic development, the right ventricle is formed from the secondary heart field into a crescent-shaped, thin-walled structure. 6 It is the most anterior heart chamber, sitting just beneath ...

Fulminant liver failure, or acute liver failure, is a life threatening condition that happens when liver function rapidly deteriorates. It can affect people with no preexisting liver disease. The ...