Acute Hf News Today

Heart failure patients treated in a short-term unit instead of being hospitalized have similar quality of life and may have an advantage in terms of staying out of hospital.

Voice analysis with an app that uses artificial intelligence may provide early warning of acute decompensated heart failure, researchers suggest. But these are early days, a cardiologist cautions.

A new analysis of a large contemporary registry of patients with cardiogenic shock has shown worse outcomes for women than men, driven particularly by those with shock related to heart failure.

Filling an evidence gap, a pooled analysis of patients with heart failure across the LVEF spectrum supports starting sacubitril-valsartan in the hospital.

Pregnant women who have had a heart transplant are at increased risk for myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest, or other serious maternal outcomes during hospitalization for delivery.

Observational registry data from Sweden showed a significant link between SGLT2 inhibitor use at the time of an MI in people with type 2 diabetes and fewer all-cause deaths in 1-year follow-up.

A tailored electronic health record (EHR) alert system did not significantly increase the prescription of guideline-directed medical therapies (GDMT) at hospital discharge for patients with acute heart failure (AHF).

The new document helps rectify an occasional but familiar problem: the societys 2021 guideline was out of date almost as soon as it hit the presses.

Results of the DICTATE-AHF randomized trial that tested starting dapagliflozin for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure confirmed the safety and benefit of this guideline-directed strategy.

Underlying heart disease, which may manifest itself in fainting episodes and unexplained accidents, may be responsible for sudden cardiac arrest among youth.