Background Patients with acute heart failure are frequently or systematically hospitalized,
often because the risk of adverse events is uncertain and the options for rapid follow-up are …

Background Dietary restriction of sodium has been suggested to prevent fluid overload and
adverse outcomes for patients with heart failure. We designed the Study of Dietary …

Background: The negative impact of diabetes mellitus is well recognized, yet little is known
about the effect of this disease on the liver, an organ susceptible to nonalcoholic fatty liver …

Importance Health care services that support the hospital-to-home transition can improve
outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF). Objective To test the effectiveness of the Patient-…

Objectives : The aim of this study was to determine if exercise testing could expose a latent
electrical substrate of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) in …

Background Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) infections including drivelines, pump pockets,
and bacteremia are difficult to manage and conservative treatments may not be effective …

Historically, cardiac transplantation is the only definitive therapy for mortality reduction,
symptom reduction, and improved quality of life in advanced heart failure. Because of …

Introduction Heart Failure (HF) is a common cause of hospitalization in older adults. The
transition from hospital to home is high-risk, and gaps in transitional care can increase the risk …

Background A recent study showed that the accuracy of heart failure (HF) cardiologists and
family doctors to predict mortality in outpatients with HF proved suboptimal, performing less …

BACKGROUND: Many studies have demonstrated that physicians often err in estimating
patient prognosis. No studies have directly compared physician to model predictive …