Advances in our understanding of how the gut microbiota contributes to human health and
diseases have expanded our insight into how microbial composition and function affect the …

Evidence from both experimental and clinical trials indicates that inflammatory mediators are
of importance in the pathogenesis of chronic heart failure (HF) contributing to cardiac …

Heart Failure Society (JHFS). The working committee for this project includes members and
collaborators involved in the previous versions of the heart failure guidelines and members …

Background—Altered composition of the gut microbiota is involved in both the onset and
progression of obesity and diabetes mellitus. However, the link between gut microbiota and …

Background Wasting in chronic heart failure (CHF) has long been known but is little
investigated. We sought to find out whether the cachectic state in CHF provides additional …

Cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) type 1 is characterized as the development of acute kidney
injury (AKI) and dysfunction in the patient with acute cardiac illness, most commonly acute …

Swynghedauw, Bernard. Molecular Mechanisms of Myocardial Remodeling. Physiol. Rev.
79: 215–262, 1999.—“Remodeling” implies changes that result in rearrangement of …

Background—Previous reports have shown that elevated circulating levels of cytokines
and/or cytokine receptors predict adverse outcomes in patients with heart failure. However …

Background Risk stratification of patients with end-stage congestive heart failure is a critical
component of the transplant candidate selection process. Accurate identification of …

Chronic heart failure (CHF) represents a major public health burden, and its prognosis is
comparable to that of different malignant diseases. Our understanding of CHF has …