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Monday, October, 26, 2009

Dual Chamber Icd For Treatment Of Congestive Heart Failure

Congestive heart failure med shows promising results

October 03, 2008
A new medication to treat acute congestive heart failure (CHF) has shown positive results in late-stage clinical trials. The med, currently called KW-3902, helped improve shortness of breath and eased renal-function deterioration in CHF patients in the Phase III trials. Read more »

Expert & Community Posts

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Hypertension and Congestive Heart Failure
By Dr. Charles Whitcomb , Health Expert

  Congestive heart failure (CHF) is one of the most common reasons for hospital admission in the... Read more »

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Is the FDA a watchdog or a dog?
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert

...maker of Actos, to strengthen existing warnings about congestive heart failure (CHF). Both drugs... Read more »

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Heart failure, is it All the Same?
By Dr. Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert

...the left side first. Each side is made up of two chambers: the atrium, or upper chamber; and the... Read more »

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Hot tubs and heart disease: Trouble or treatment?
By Dr. Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert

...this could be used as a treatment of patients with congestive heart failure. Recent scientific... Read more »

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What Do I Do About Heart Failure?
By Dr. Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert

...by: •        Enlarging. When the heart chamber enlarges, it stretches more and can... Read more »

Health Guide

Congestive Heart Failure Patient Guide
...tissues and organs. It also helps rid the body of unnecessary waste products. The heart consists of four chambers, the right and left atria and the right and left ventricles. Blood from the body... Read more »
Causes of Cardiac Enlargement
...thickness of the heart muscle. Dilation involves an increase in the size of the inside cavity of a chamber of the heart. Hypertrophy usually occurs in only one chamber while dilation may occur... Read more »
Congestive Heart Failure: Surgery and Recovery
...type of pacemaker used for patients with heart failure. Because BVPs help the hearts left and right chambers beat together, this treatment is called cardiac resynchronization therapy (CST). BVPs... Read more »
Heart Failure: Introduction
...of two independent pumping systems, one on the right side, and the other on the left. Each has two chambers, an atrium and a ventricle. The ventricles are the major pumps in the heart.The external... Read more »
Congestive Heart Failure Causes
...regurgitation is a possible outcome of remodeling. The mitral valve regulates blood flow between the two chambers on the left side of the heart. In response to remodeling, the structural changes... Read more »

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