Can Heart Failure Cause ONLY Edema and No Other Symptoms?
Can someone have ONLY edema from chronic heart failure yet have no other symptoms such as easy fatigue from activities that normally never tired them? […]
How Might Chronic Heart Failure Affect the Liver?
Patients with chronic heart failure often have insufficient renal function, thanks to reduced blood flow. But what about liver dysfunction resulting from the reduced blood flow? […]
Is Your Ejection Fraction Very Low? How Long Can You Live ?
If you’ve been told you have a very low ejection fraction, just how long can you expect to live? When the ejection fraction is below 20 to 25 percent, it’s considered to be “severely reduced.” [...]
How to Increase Survival Odds with Very Low Ejection Fraction
How long you can survive, once being diagnosed with a very low ejection fraction, depends quite a bit on what you intend on doing about this common affliction. A very low ejection fraction may be [...]
What’s a Normal Ejection Fraction for Elderly of Various Ages?
Do elderly people in various age brackets have an associated “normal” ejection fraction? […]
Can Kidneys Suddenly Decompensate in Chronic Heart Failure?
In chronic heart failure can your kidneys suddenly get a lot worse even though the echocardiogram says your cardiac functioning has been stable for several years? […]
Which Is First in Cardiorenal Syndrome: Heart or Kidney Failure?
Cardiorenal failure is a classic chicken-or-egg scenario, in that it’s not always clear-cut which came first: heart failure or kidney failure. […]
Can Heart Decompensation Occur at Higher Ejection Fractions?
So can acute decompensated heart failure occur with higher ejection fractions? In other words, with mild to moderately reduced ejection fraction in the range of 40 to 50%? […]
The Lowest Ejection Fraction a Person Could Live With?
How is it that some will have acute heart failure with an ejection fraction of 15% and die, while others are quite alive with a much lower ejection fraction? I was inspired to write this [...]
5 Percent Ejection Fraction without Acute Renal Failure?
“For unknown reasons, some patients are able to tolerate very low ejection fraction without failure of other organs” including the kidneys, says Dr. Mark Pool, MD, a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon based in TX who’s been [...]
Can the Liver Suddenly Fail Acutely from Heart Failure?
There are several mechanisms by which you can suffer acute liver failure as a result of your chronic heart failure. The kidneys get virtually all of the attention in medical literature when it comes to [...]
Does Fluid Buildup Always Occur with Acute Heart Failure?
Can ejection fraction suddenly get a lot worse (acute heart failure) without filling the lungs with fluid or causing peripheral edema? When people are hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), is this commonly because [...]
Survival Time if You Have a 20 Percent Ejection Fraction
An ejection fraction of 20 percent is pretty bad, and if you know someone whose EF is this low, you’ll wonder how much longer their survival time may be. Three Year Survival Rate of 20% [...]
Raising Ejection Fraction: Exercise & Other Lifestyle Changes
How effective can exercise be at raising ejection fraction? What else can raise ejection fraction other than exercise? “There are some patient populations where ejection fraction is modestly increased with regular exercise,” says Norman E. [...]
How Low Can Ejection Fraction Be without Congestive HF?
Is it possible to have a really low ejection fraction and still not have congestive heart failure? “There are two major types of congestive heart failure (CHF),” begins Norman E. Lepor, MD, cardiologist and internal [...]
Best Type of Exercise for Improving Ejection Fraction
Not all exercise is the same when it comes to improving ejection fraction in heart failure patients. There is a certain type of exercise that research has shown to improve one’s ejection fraction remarkably well, [...]
Ejection Fraction 20%: How Long Can You Live?
An ejection fraction of under 20 percent is frightfully low as far as survival…or is it? “Having a low ejection fraction (absolute number) is not necessarily correlated to symptoms,” begins Pilar Stevens-Cohen, MD, FACC, Department [...]
Can Ejection Fraction Be Increased without Drugs?
What can you do to increase ejection fraction if you don’t want to take medications that might cause fainting? “There are really no other good ways of increasing ejection fraction other than medications,” says Dr. [...]
Is Ejection Fraction a Predictor of Mortality?
A cardiologist addresses the question of ejection fraction being a predictor of mortality. Ejection fraction is the amount of “squeeze” or force that a heart yields with each beat. Can this actually be a predictor [...]
Can a Marathon Runner Have a Low Ejection Fraction?
Marathon runners usually have strong hearts, but believe it or not, they can actually have a low ejection fraction, says a cardiologist. You may have heard that it’s possible for a marathon runner to have [...]
Low Ejection Fraction without Congestive Heart Failure?
Can a person have a low ejection fraction, even like 35 percent, yet not have congestive heart failure? Ejection fraction means how much blood the heart pumps out with each beat. For this article I [...]
How Low Must Ejection Fraction Be for Congestive Heart Failure?
Find out what the cut-off point is for when ejection fraction could be low enough to mean congestive heart failure. People with congestive heart failure have a low ejection fraction, but does a low ejection [...]