Ischemic heart disease still represents a large burden on individuals and health care
resources worldwide. By conventions, it is equated with atherosclerotic plaque due to flow …

Heart failure is a complex syndrome responsible for high rates of death and hospitalization.
Ischemic heart disease is one of the most frequent causes of heart failure and it is normally …

Disease staging is an important tool in both clinical research and medical practice because
it allows for an unequivocal allocation of individuals into groups of shared biomedical …

Background. Among chronic diseases, heart failure has always been a serious challenge
imposing high costs on health systems and societies. Therefore, nurses should adopt new …

Proper therapeutic management of patients with heart failure (HF) is a major challenge for
cardiologists. Current guidelines indicate to start therapy with angiotensin converting …

Ischemic heart disease (IHD) poses a significant challenge in cardiovascular health, with
current treatments showing limited success. Induced pluripotent derived–cardiomyocyte …

Aims The recent coronavirus disease 19 (COVID‐19) pandemic outbreak forced the
adoption of restraint measures, which modified the hospital admission patterns for several …

Heart failure (HF) is a clinical syndrome defined by specific symptoms and signs due to
structural and/or functional heart abnormalities, which lead to inadequate cardiac output …

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a complex clinical syndrome
responsible for high mortality and morbidity rates. It has an ever growing social and …

For those suffering from end-stage biventricular heart failure, and where a heart
transplantation is not a viable option, a Total Artificial Heart (TAH) can be used as a bridge to …