Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Systolic congestive heart failure involves the left side of your heart losing its ability to pump effectively.Common symptoms include shortness of breath, ...

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"), ...

The heart is a muscle like no other, beating 60 to 100 times per minute on average, around the clock. But when it grows weak, it can lead to serious problems: from debilitating shortness of breath and ...

Right ventricular systolic function evaluated through VO2 max is a more accurate measure of functional capacity of persons with heart failure compared with left ventricular systolic function. This ...

To the Editor: In their Video in Clinical Medicine, Prada et al. (Nov. 24 issue) 1 summarize the assessment of right ventricular systolic function with cardiac ultrasonography. Even though the ...

A Savannah teenager is making national medical history after surviving a surgery so rare that only one other person in the country has ever recovered well enough to leave the hospital. 18-year-old ...

A rat study has found that aerobic exercise may reshape nerves that control the heart. However, the impact was not the same ...