Hospitalized patients with severe congestive heart failure did not experience a benefit from use of pulmonary artery catheterization
4th Oct 2005, 23:26 GMT
Advances in medical therapy have improved outcomes for many ambulatory patients with heart failure and low ejection fraction (EF; a measure of how much blood the left ventricle of the heart pumps out with each contraction), according to background information in the article.
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