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HFSA 2011 - Boston, MA

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Voodoo death and homeostasis: Experts on brain-body unity address HFSA meeting
Heart failure
Voodoo death and homeostasis: Experts on brain-body unity address HFSA meeting
Sep 29, 2011 10:00 EDT
Holistic-medicine authority Deepak Chopra and neurologist Martin A Samuels presented heart-failure specialists with two different but complementary takes on the connection between brain and body.
Heart failure
Telemonitoring cuts risk in postdischarge HF, but method, timing may matter
3 COMMENTS - Sep 23, 2011 17:45 EDT
A meta-analysis finds that while two common forms of telemonitoring after HF hospitalization both work, they have strengths and disadvantages.
HeartNet for HF may boost CRT
Heart failure
HeartNet for HF may boost CRT "efficiency," help reverse remodeling
Sep 23, 2011 16:45 EDT
The mesh restraint, slipped over the ventricles, seems to turn nonresponders to cardiac resynchronization therapy into responders, and researchers think they know how the device does this.
Acute-HF early-warning system implant surprises by upping HF hospitalizations
Heart failure
Acute-HF early-warning system implant surprises by upping HF hospitalizations
3 COMMENTS - Sep 22, 2011 10:00 EDT
Researchers are reconsidering the value of the technology used in the DOT-HF trial, in which intrathoracic impedance monitors beeped to warn patients of impending decompensation.
STICH: Add CABG to meds for quality-of-life gains in ischemic HF
Heart failure
STICH: Add CABG to meds for quality-of-life gains in ischemic HF
Sep 21, 2011 14:45 EDT
The meaning of the trial's clinical primary outcomes may have been open to debate, but the quality-of-life advantage for surgery was strong and consistent, according to researchers.
Heart failure
Diuretics for acute HF can depend on specialty of treating physician
3 COMMENTS - Sep 20, 2011 12:00 EDT
Their use may vary between internal-medicine and emergency-medicine doctors, depending, to some extent, on the questions asked—or not asked—at the history-taking.
Pumped about LVADs: Many eligible HF patients would
Heart failure
Pumped about LVADs: Many eligible HF patients would "definitely" consider one
1 COMMENT - Sep 20, 2011 08:45 EDT
Few heart-failure patients are actually having the devices electively implanted even though they qualify, but researchers say that's not because the remaining eligible patients don't like the idea.

Discussion and opinions

Blogs
Heart failure and transplantation with Dr Ileana Piña
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Sep 23, 2011 14:55 EDT