Ejection fraction (EF) measures the amount of blood pumped out of your heart's lower chambers, or ventricles. It's the percentage of blood that leaves your ventricle when your heart contracts. The ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Before understanding how the ejection fraction is linked to the heart, let us tell you what it is. “Ejection Fraction or EF is a key measure of how well the heart is pumping blood to the body. It ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband is 73 and was diagnosed with heart failure and a severely dilated left ventricle. At the time, he was pumping 10 liters per minute. He had a proBNP natriuretic peptide level ...

If you practice inpatient medicine, you've managed patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Formerly known as diastolic dysfunction, HFpEF is borderline ubiquitous on the ...

(MEMPHIS, Tenn. – January 11, 2024) Data from the St. Jude lifetime cohort study (St. Jude LIFE) revealed that two common biomarkers of cardiac function and damage could better predict cardiomyopathy ...

A study involving 281 elite athletes from Australia and Belgium has found that one in six has cardiac measures that would normally suggest reduced heart function. Genetic analysis further revealed ...

Images from electrocardiogram (ECG) tests to show heart function. Those with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), in the middle column, have worse heart diastolic function. Those ...