Use of routine thoracentesis in addition to medical therapy yielded no significant benefits for adults with heart failure and pleural effusions, according to a new study.

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is when the heart does not pump blood around the body efficiently. This can cause symptoms such as lung congestion and swelling due to fluid retention. According to ...

This finding was largely driven by congestive heart failure. The practicing clinician should not abandon doxazosin completely because of the ALLHAT findings, although these findings are ...

When people think of heart problems, they often imagine chest pain, shortness of breath, or fatigue. But there’s another, ...

Learn about the symptoms of congestive heart failure. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), there are two ways to stage heart failure. The first is the New York Heart Association ...

There are various signs and symptoms of heart failure and people can exhibit one or many of those signs that you have to watch out for. For example, shortness of breath with exertion can be a sign ...

Twenty-seven of the 188 patients whose parents were queried had congestive heart failure, and 161 had no evidence of failure ().Twenty per cent (32 of 161) of the patients with no failure were ...

Heart failure is a syndrome, not a specific disease, and occurs as a final common pathway in multiple disease states. The section presents a review of diastolic congestive heart failure ...

Adults who had underlying medical conditions and then developed the flu were four times more likely to be hospitalized with the virus compared to those who didn’t have underlying medical issues, ...