Heart Failure

Key opinion leader in pharmacy, Randy McDonough, PharmD, MS, BCGP, BCPS, FAPhA, provides insight into the history of conventional treatment approaches in heart failure.

Alexandra Goncharenko, PharmD, BCPS, BCCP reviews factors that may influence treatment approaches for heart failure and emphasizes the importance of diagnosis to begin maximally tolerated doses of guideline-directed medical therapy.

Ryan Jacobsen, PharmD, BCPS leads a discussion on defining heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) as well as the importance of staging and functional classification criteria.

Recently, many providers have become worried about the potential of certain medications to worsen transmission and outcomes in the setting of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Results of the DAPA-HF trial demonstrate the efficacy and safety of dapagliflozin in patients with heart failure.

Staying on top of oral hygiene may be connected to a lower risk of atrial fibrillation and heart failure.

A new study has found that patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction receiving dapagliflozin decreased their risk of worsening HF or death from cardiovascular events.

In honor of World Diabetes Day, AstraZeneca has launched the campaign Diabetes Can Break Your Heart, the national movement aimed to change the trajectory of heart failure in type 2 diabetes.

The PHARM-CHF trial investigated whether regularly seeing a pharmacist improves adherence to heart failure medications.

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“The central problem in heart failure is not that patients are short of breath or retain fluid. The problem is that they die.”

The findings of a retrospective study suggest that timing of heart failure (HF)-related pharmacotherapy following a HF-related encounter has potential implications on subsequent healthcare costs.

This may be the first drug shown to reduce mortality in the HFpEF population in the United States but will hopefully not be the last.

A number of landmark clinical studies on lipid lowering and cardiovascular health have been published, shaping how patients are treated.

Large clinical trial shows no increase in adverse events from treatment with aspirin for heart failure.

Even small weight gain may change the structure of the heart.

While overall hospitalizations for heart failure decreased, problems persist among minority populations.

This article highlights 5 published case reports that document unusual drug overdoses.

Investigational cancer drug blocks inflammation and fibrosis in heart cells.

Beta blockers may be unnecessary for patients who experienced a heart attack and did not develop heart failure.

Many cases of congenital heart disease go undetected until adulthood, and are discovered after heart failure develops or an arrhythmia causes sudden cardiac death.

During the last 4 decades, the epidemiologic characteristics of acute myocardial infarction have changed.

Dysbiosis of gut bacteria is a factor in several diseases, possibly including heart failure.