Medscape

Improved LVEF May Negate Need for ICD: More Study Needed

BALTIMORE, MD — Among heart-failure patients with low left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) who received an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), the EF improved in 40% of patients during ...
Medical Dialogues

Severely Reduced Left Ventricular Function may Not Significantly Increase In-Hospital Mortality During Complex Cardiac Procedures: Study

A recent retrospective study of 504 patients found that in-hospital mortality was not significantly affected by reduced heart ...
Medscape

Mortality Differs by LVEF Between Women and Men

Clinically significant sex-based differences in left ventricular ejection fraction related to mortality emerged in a real-world, observational, big data study from Australia, Simon Stewart, PhD, ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

TAVR May Induce Early LVEF Improvement in Heart Failure

This study investigated long-term mortality outcomes following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) among patients with a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) below 50% and comorbid ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

LVEF Improvement for Many With Primary Prevention ICDs

(HealthDay News) — Forty percent of patients with primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) experience improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), according to a ...
TCTMD

LVEF Analysis Digs Anew Into Revascularization Benefits in Ischemic CAD

(UPDATED) There may be a benefit to early revascularization over medical therapy in patients with severe inducible ischemia on SPECT testing, regardless of their baseline left ventricular ejection ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Similar Risk of Death Between Patients With HFimpEF, LVEF Above 40% in DELIVER Trial

An analysis of the DELIVER trial also revealed an association between dapagliflozin treatment and reduced risk of cardiovascular death among individuals with heart failure with improved ejection ...
Medical Xpress

Can artificial intelligence reduce invasive testing and improve cardiac diagnostics?

Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of adult death worldwide. In many cases, quantifying left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF)—or how much blood the left ventricle pumps out with each ...
TCTMD

Semaglutide Works Across LVEF Range: STEP-HFpEF Analysis

The clinical benefits of semaglutide (Wegovy; Novo Nordisk) in patients with the obesity phenotype of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) don’t appear to be influenced by left ...
Nature

Improvement of LVEF in patients with HF is linked to better prognosis

Current heart failure (HF) guidelines acknowledge the existence of a distinct subgroup of patients with HF and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (HFpEF) who had a history of reduced left ...
ascopubs.org

LVEF decline in relation to body composition among women treated for breast cancer: WF-97415.

*Baseline – 3 months. **Age- and race-adjusted association with LVEF change. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.
Healio

Higher sex-specific LVEF may mean better outcomes in women with suspected ischemia

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In women with suspected ischemia, those with a high left ventricular ejection fraction have reduced risk for ...