Focused cardiac ultrasonography is a point-of-care, qualitative or semiquantitative means of assessing cardiac size, structure, and function that is performed and interpreted by the clinician at the ...

Researchers in China report that a simple heart ultrasound measure of left ventricular underfilling is a valuable prognostic ...

Because life expectancy and the prevalence of risk factors such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes are rising globally, heart failure (HF) is growing into a major health problem. Impairment of left ...

A-HeFT enrolled 1050 patients self-identified as black who had symptomatic New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III or IV heart failure with dilated ventricles. Patients were randomized to receive ...

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 ...