Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and right ventricular (RV) dysfunction are important predictors of prognosis in heart failure (HF). We investigated the relationship between RV dysfunction and CKD in ...

Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Congestive heart failure (CHF) and heart failure are the same thing. Both terms describe the inability of the heart to pump enough blood to service the body ...

Luís Beck-da-Silva, MD; Adolfo de Bold, PhD, FRSC; Ross A. Davies, MD, FRCPC; Benjamin J.W. Chow, MD, FRCPC; Terrence D. Ruddy, MD, FRCPC; Margaret Fraser, RN ...

Chronic heart failure occurs when either the left ventricle, the right ventricle, or both require elevated filling pressures to maintain cardiac output. Heart failure is a syndrome, not a specific ...

In the setting of many human diseases such as heart failure and pulmonary hypertension, this means that right ventricular (RV) function predicts survival. Our group is interested in understanding how ...

The severity of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction affects risk for incident stroke and transient ischemic attack, as well as major bleeding.

High-level endurance exercise is associated with high cardiac output, which results in high-pulmonary pressures and high right ventricular wall stress. This high RV wall stress may explain findings of ...

The pathophysiology of chronic heart failure (HF) exists when either the left ventricle, the right ventricle, or both, require elevated filling pressures to maintain cardiac output. The ...