121. CNN.com - Health - Pacemakers Found To Help Heart Failure Patients - March 20, 2 CNN http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/03/20/pacemaker.heart/index.html

MAIN PAGE WORLD U.S. WEATHER ... ABOUT US CNN TV what's on show transcripts CNN Headline News CNN International ... askCNN EDITIONS CNN.com Asia CNN.com Europe set your edition Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Danish Japanese Korean Arabic Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW Pacemakers found to help heart failure patients A new study shows pacemakers can help some patients with heart failure By Rhonda Rowland CNN Medical Unit ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) A pacemaker device could help up to half of all heart failure patients live a more active life, researchers told the American College of Cardiology Tuesday. "The device was shown to markedly improve patient's quality of life and their functional capacity, and by functional capacity I mean that they were able to exercise longer and they were able to perform more of their activities of daily living," said lead researcher Dr. William Abraham of the University of Kentucky. Heart failure is the most rapidly growing form of heart disease in the United States. Some 5 million people have it and as many as 700,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. When medications and surgeries and procedures like angioplasty no longer work, the only other course of action has been a heart transplant. But results from a study on 500 patients indicate pacemakers may offer another treatment option.

122. CHF Overview of Congestive heart failure. Related Tests Urinalysis, Electrolytes, BNP.Occurs when the heart cannot pump blood efficiently, resulting in blood http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/conditions/chf.html

TESTS Test not listed? A/G Ratio ACE ACT ACTH AFB Culture AFP Maternal AFP Tumor Marker Albumin Aldolase Aldosterone Allergies ALP Alpha-1 Antitrypsin ALT Ammonia Amylase ANA Antibody Tests Antiglobulin, Direct Antiglobulin, Indirect Antiphospholipids Antithrombin Apo A Apo B ApoE Genotyping aPTT AST Autoantibodies Bicarbonate Bilirubin Blood Culture Blood Gases Blood Smear BMP BNP Bone Markers BRCA BUN C-peptide CA-125 CA 15-3 CA 19-9 Calcitonin Calcium Cardiac Biomarkers Cardiac Risk Cardiolipin Antibodies Catecholamines CBC CCP C. diff CEA Celiac Disease Tests CF Gene Mutation Chemistry Panels Chlamydia Chloride Cholesterol CK CK-MB CMP CMV Coagulation Factors Complement Levels Cortisol Creatinine Creatinine Clearance CRP CRP, high-sensitivity

123. NewsRx Report Series On Heart Failure Therapy Research Information, and news on heart failure Therapy Research with NewsRx.net's series of monthly, quarterly, and yearly reports. http://www.newsrx.net/partialreports/newsrx_current_quarterly_report_on_heart_fa

124. Congestive Heart Failure Is Generally Treatable An article by William R. Ladd, MD, Director, Nuclear Cardiology. Discussion aboutcongestive heart failure and some underlying causes. http://www.icorp.net/cardio/articles/congestv.htm

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125. CNN.com - New Pacemaker May Revolutionize Heart Failure Treatment For Some - Feb CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/02/15/pacemaker/index.html

health Editions myCNN Video ... Feedback CNN Sites CNN CNN Europe CNNfn CNNSI myCNN CNNfyi AllPolitics Languages Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNfn.com The Web HEALTH TOP STORIES New treatments hold out hope for breast cancer patients MORE TOP STORIES Thousands dead in India; quake toll rapidly rising Israelis, Palestinians make final push before Israeli election Davos protesters confront police MORE ... MORE MARKETS 4:30pm ET, 4/16 DJIA NAS SPORTS Jordan says farewell for the third time ... LOCAL EDITIONS: CNN.com Europe change default edition MULTIMEDIA: video video archive audio multimedia showcase ... more services E-MAIL: Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists Enter your address: DISCUSSION: chat feedback CNN WEB SITES: CNNfyi.com CNN.com Europe AsiaNow Spanish ... Korean Headlines TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW CNN NETWORKS: CNN anchors transcripts Turner distribution SITE INFO: help contents search ad info ... jobs WEB SERVICES: New pacemaker may revolutionize heart treatment From Medical Correspondent Rhonda Rowland February 15, 2000 Web posted at: 12:56 p.m. EST (1756 GMT) (CNN) Researchers say an experimental therapy using a new kind of pacemaker may be most promising treatment for heart failure since transplants were introduced 30 years ago.

126. Heart Failure The term heart failure suggests a sudden and complete stop of heart activity.But, actually, heart failure usually develops slowly, often over years, http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/928255593.html

Search Articles: search tips Please Take the HealthLink Survey Email this article Print this article Find related articles: By topic: Cardiac/Heart By keywords: Receive Health Link via email! Subscribe now >> Heart Failure What is heart failure? Heart failure occurs when the heart loses its ability to pump enough blood through the body. Usually, the loss in pumping action is a symptom of an underlying heart problem, such as coronary artery disease. The term heart failure suggests a sudden and complete stop of heart activity. But, actually, the heart does not suddenly stop. Rather, heart failure usually develops slowly, often over years, as the heart gradually loses its pumping ability and works less efficiently. Some people may not become aware of their condition until symptoms appear years after their heart began its decline. How serious the condition is depends on how much pumping capacity the heart has lost. Nearly everyone loses some pumping capacity as he or she ages. But the loss is significantly more in heart failure and often results from a heart attack or other disease that damages the heart. The severity of the condition determines the impact it has on a person's life. At one end of the spectrum, the mild form of heart failure may have little effect on a person's life; at the other end, severe heart failure can interfere with even simple activities and prove fatal. Between those extremes, treatment often helps people lead full lives.

127. Index The Johns Hopkins Cardiomyopathy and heart failure Practice is dedicated toexcellence in No two patients with heart failure, cardiomyopathy or heart http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/cardiology/heart/

Home Definitions Evaluation and Treatment Familial Cardiomyopathy Patient Resources ... Your Support The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions has become a leading center for the treatment and study of patients with cardiomyopathy. The Johns Hopkins Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Practice is dedicated to excellence in patient care, research and education. We created this Web Site to describe the clinical developments as well as the members of the multidisciplinary team assembled at Johns Hopkins to fight cardiomyopathy and heart failure. No two patients with heart failure, cardiomyopathy or heart transplantation are identical. The appropriate treatment of individual cases varies greatly. The information expressed in this Web site should not be considered medical advice. Patients should consult their physician. All content is reviewed by staff of the Johns Hopkins Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Practice. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Practice through the main cardiology office at 443-287-6720. This site was last updated on: 08/11/2004 Carnegie 568, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21287 USA

128. CNN.com - Study Suggests Novel Treatment For Heart Failure - Feb. 18, 2004 CNN http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/02/18/heart.statins.reut/index.html

International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Autos SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters Your E-mail Alerts RSS ... Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com Study suggests novel treatment for heart failure Statins may help even patients with low cholesterol Story Tools RELATED Prevention guidelines New guidelines for women 'Peptide' may be early predictor 'Polypill' to cut heart attacks? ... American Heart Association HEALTH LIBRARY Health Library All about your heart High cholesterol YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Medical Research Health Treatment or Create your own Manage alerts What is this? WHAT ARE STATINS? Statins are cholesterol-lowering drugs introduced in the 1980s. They work by blocking a substance the liver needs to manufacture cholesterol. This makes the liver cells seek out cholesterol that's already circulating in the blood. Statins have been shown to reduce your LDL cholesterol ("bad cholesterol") by up to 40 percent. Source: Mayo Clinic WASHINGTON (Reuters) Cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, which greatly reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack, may also help keep patients with heart failure alive even if they do not have high cholesterol, new research suggests. Heart failure patients who took statins were 55 percent less likely to die during the year after they were prescribed the drugs than patients who did not get them, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found.

129. Heart Failure, Congestive - Heart Decompensation - Information Page With HONsele A complication of A HREF= /cgibin/HONselect?browse+C14.280 OnMouseOver= http://www.hon.ch/HONselect/Selection/C14.280.434.html

InitBulle("navy","#F8F8F8","#000066",1); HONcode sites All Web sites HONselect News ... Images HONselect Search English French German Spanish Portuguese the word the part of word in MeSH term in MeSH term and description Information on "Heart Failure, Congestive": Medical hierarchy and definition Research Articles Web resources Medical Images Medical News Medical Conferences Clinical Trials Hierarchy English French German Spanish Portuguese Heart Failure, Congestive Definition: A complication of HEART DISEASES . Defective cardiac filling and/or impaired contraction and emptying, resulting in the heart's inability to pump a sufficient amount of blood to meet the needs of the body tissues or to be able to do so only with an elevated filling pressure. (from Braunwald, Heart Disease, 5th ed) Synonym(s): Heart Decompensation / Congestive Heart Failure / Decompensation, Heart / Failure, Congestive Heart / Narrow term(s): Cardiomyopathy, Dilated Dyspnea, Paroxysmal Edema, Cardiac See Related: Heart Diseases Browse New search Web resources for "Heart Failure, Congestive"

130. GAP Program - Oregon HF GAP in Oregon is an effort to improve care for heart failure with education and toolbased application of the ACC/AHA heart failure Guidelines at the point-of-care in physician practices. http://www.acc.org/gap/or/oregon_gap.htm

var showMenu="ExpandMain:gap;HighlightSub:or;"; // document.modified = "Monday March 07, 2005"; document.modified = "03/07/2005"; Heart Failure GAP Project in Oregon Guideline ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult Principal Investigators Mark M. Huth, MD, PhD, FACC Ruth Medak, MD Project Coordinator Jenny Masengil, RN, BS, CCRN Partners Oregon Chapter of the ACC Oregon Medical Professional Review Organization CV Outcomes Project Setting Physician practices Project Summary The Heart Failure GAP Project in Oregon was an 18-month quality improvement initiative introduced in six geographically diverse outpatient cardiology practices in Oregon. The program aimed to improve heart failure treatment by increasing adherence to the ACC/American Heart Association (AHA) heart failure guidelines through the use of patient and clinician tools. A core objective was to increase use of chronic care management methods and evidence-based therapies. Methods Tools for Patients

131. Statin Therapy May Lower Mortality In Heart Failure Patients Cholesterollowering statin therapy may improve survival in patients with diastolicheart failure (DHF) according to a paper published in Circulation http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-07/wfub-stm072205.php

Public release date: 22-Jul-2005 E-mail Article Contact: Jim Steele jsteele@wfubmc.edu Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Statin therapy may lower mortality in heart failure patients WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Cholesterol-lowering statin therapy may improve survival in patients with diastolic heart failure (DHF) according to a paper published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association by cardiologists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Currently, there are no treatments shown to improve survival in these patients, who make up about 40 percent of all heart failure cases. Systolic heart failure patients have hearts that don't pump out enough blood. In DHF, the heart does not fully relax and therefore does not fill properly with blood. The mortality rate is 5 to 8 percent per year. William C. Little, M.D., head of the cardiology section at Wake Forest Baptist, and his research team found a dramatic difference in the longevity of 137 diastolic heart failure patients followed over a three-year period. The patients were being treated with ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers, calcium blockers or statins – all drugs that are commonly used to treat hypertension or heart-related conditions. "Some patients in the group had been diagnosed with high cholesterol and placed on statin therapy by their doctors. Others in the group whose cholesterol levels were not as high in general, were not placed on statins," said Little. "But when we followed the patients we found that those who had received statins did dramatically better."

132. Getting Some Heart Failure Patients On Their Feet CNN http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/05/30/heart.failure.ap/index.html

133. Heart Failure - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, is a condition in which heart failure often occurs in children with congenital (present at birth) http://www.lpch.org/DiseaseHealthInfo/HealthLibrary/cardiac/chf.html

Arrhythmia Service/Electrocardiography (ECG) Laboratory Cardiac Catheterization / Angiography Cardiology Cardiothoracic Surgery ... Two Hearts are Better than One for Toddler at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford Cardiovascular Disorders Heart Failure What is heart failure? Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough oxygenated blood to meet the needs of the body's other organs. The heart keeps pumping, but not as efficiently as a healthy heart. Usually, the loss in the heart's pumping action is a symptom of an underlying heart problem. What causes heart failure? Heart failure often occurs in children with congenital (present at birth) heart defects. Other medical problems that can cause heart failure include, but are not limited to, the following: heart valve disease caused by past rheumatic fever or other infections infections of the heart valves and/or heart muscle (i.e., endocarditis) cardiac arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats) cardiomyopathy, or another primary disease of the heart muscle

134. American Heart Association Congestive Heart Failure Detailed information about this topic as well as links to related subjects such as enlarged heart, high blood pressure, kidney function and cardiomyopathy. http://216.185.112.5/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4585

135. Congestive Heart Failure Congestive heart failure information for patients. http://www.guidant.com/webapp/emarketing/compass/comp.jsp?lev1=hf&lev2=glance

136. CNN.com - Health - New Hope For Heart Failure Patients - November 13, 2000 CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/13/arthritis.heart/index.html

health Editions myCNN Video ... Feedback CNN Sites CNN CNN Europe CNNfn CNNSI myCNN CNNfyi AllPolitics Languages Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNfn.com The Web HEALTH TOP STORIES New treatments hold out hope for breast cancer patients MORE TOP STORIES Thousands dead in India; quake toll rapidly rising Israelis, Palestinians make final push before Israeli election Davos protesters confront police MORE ... MORE MARKETS 4:30pm ET, 4/16 DJIA NAS SPORTS Jordan says farewell for the third time ... LOCAL EDITIONS: CNN.com Europe change default edition MULTIMEDIA: video video archive audio multimedia showcase ... more services E-MAIL: Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists Enter your address: DISCUSSION: chat feedback CNN WEB SITES: CNNfyi.com CNN.com Europe AsiaNow Spanish ... Korean Headlines TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW CNN NETWORKS: CNN anchors transcripts Turner distribution SITE INFO: help contents search ad info ... jobs WEB SERVICES: New hope for heart failure patients Arthritis drug may slow disease progression HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) A genetically engineered protein called Enbrel, approved last year for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, is continuing to show promise against another threat congestive heart failure. The leading cause of hospitalizations for older Americans, congestive heart failure is a progressive weakening of the heart muscle that robs the organ of its ability to pump. It affects 4.5 million people in the United States and some 400,000 new cases are diagnosed each year.

137. Hypertension Therapy Prevents Heart Failure Among Elderly Treatment with a lowdose diuretic cuts by half the chance that an older personwith high systolic blood pressure will develop heart failure, according to http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=27540

138. Disease Category Listing (162): Congestive Heart Failure CenterWatch Listing of Clinical Research Trials for Congestive heart failure. http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat162.html

Clinical Trials: Congestive Heart Failure Florida Hollywood; South Broward Cardiology Consultants A trial of utility in reducing events in patients with Congestive Heart Failure Maryland Towson; Midatlantic Cardiovascular Associates A Comparative Trial involving Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Massachusetts Boston; Massachusetts General Hospital A long term study of oral tolvaptan in subjects with congestive heart failure Boston; Research Site PROTECT Study: A Study of Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide (Pro-BNP) Targeted Therapy in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Followed as Outpatients. Boston; Brigham and Womens Hospital Copernicus- To determine the effect of Carvedilol compared to placebo on all-cause mortality in patients with severe chronic heart failure New York Manhasset; Biomedical Research Alliance of New York Hospitalized- Worsening Congestive Heart Failure Oklahoma Oklahoma City; Oklahoma Foundation for Cardiovascular Research Seeking Oklahomans with Congestive Heart Failure who are unable to walk across a room without experiencing shortness of breath and fatigue. Back to Clinical Trials by Medical Areas Research centers specializing in this illness area Additional resources ... in this illness area This site is run by CenterWatch, a publishing company that focuses on the clinical trials industry. The information provided in this service is designed to help patients find clinical trials that may be of interest to them, and to help patients contact the centers conducting the research. CenterWatch is neither promoting this research nor involved in conducting any of these trials.

139. CNN - Study: Women's Hearts Handle Congestive Heart Failure Better Than Men's - CNN http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9904/12/gender.heart/index.html

MAIN PAGE WORLD ASIANOW U.S. ... news quiz CNN WEB SITES: TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW MORE SERVICES: video on demand video archive audio on demand news email services ... pagenet DISCUSSION: message boards chat feedback SITE GUIDES: help contents search FASTER ACCESS: europe japan WEB SERVICES: Study: Women's hearts handle congestive heart failure better than men's RELATED VIDEO CNN's Rhonda Rowland reports on the relationship between congestive heart failure and gender Windows Media April 12, 1999 Web posted at: 11:15 PM EDT (1315 GMT) CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (CNN) Women with congestive heart failure can live twice as long as men with the same disease, according to a study released Monday. Researchers said the cause is most likely a biological difference between the sexes: Women's heart muscles respond better to some types of heart disease, such as high blood pressure. The study, reported in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, focused on patients with advanced heart failure. "What we think may be going on is there are biological differences between men and women that effect the way they respond to the heart failure state," said lead researcher Dr. Kirkwood F. Adams Jr., a professor of medicine and radiology at the University of North Carolina.

140. California Pacific Medical Center _ Heart Failure And Transplant Program California Pacific Medical Center _ heart failure and Transplant Program. http://www.cpmc.org/advanced/heart/

Advanced Medical Care Heart Failure/ Transplant For Patients For Physicians ... Contact Us Our emphasis on total patient care and cardiac disease management creates a unique program with excellent outcomes and personal attention. Our team works with each patient to determine the most suitable treatment for your condition. Program Highlights California Pacific initiated the nation’s first heart transplant service in a private institution in 1984 and has been at the forefront of disease management and transplant ever since. We were the first center in the nation to successfully place and maintain a patient on a bi-ventricular assist device (BiVAD) while waiting for a donor heart and have been a leader in developing the “bridge-to-transplantation.” With heart disease affecting an estimated 58 million people in the U.S. alone, medical researchers continue to pursue better treatment options. To this end, California Pacific is one of 20 clinical trial sites for the MicroMed DeBakey VAD®,

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