When the heart can no longer pump blood efficiently throughout the body, kidney function issues are among the first complications to develop. Congestive heart failure (CHF), a condition that reflects ...

Your heart is a muscular organ that helps circulate your blood, which delivers oxygen and nutrients to your tissues. There are four chambers and four valves in your heart, and each ensures proper ...

Advanced heart failure is when heart failure progresses to the most severe stage. When you have advanced heart failure, your blood pressure, blood flow, kidney and liver function, exercise capacity, ...

You can follow a treatment plan and take medications as a doctor prescribes to manage congestive heart failure. Eat a heart-healthy diet and stay physically active to slow heart failure progression.

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 ...