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-padding--horizontal"> <div class="layout-columns__main__content"> <ul class="content-tease__list"> <li class="content-tease__item"> <div class="content-tease" itemtype="http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle"> <p class="content-tease__topic"> <span class="highlight">Featured</span> </p> <h3 class="content-tease__heading" itemprop="name"> <a href="/cardiovascular/article.aspx?id=1008" itemprop="url"> New Strategies for Heart Failure Patients Improves Outcomes</a> </h3> <p itemprop="description"> <p>One-third of heart failure patients do not respond to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) | A coordinated care approach at Mass General for heart failure patients improves outcomes.</p></p> <p class="content-tease__related"> <a href="/cardiovascular/specialty.aspx?id=1002" itemprop="relatedLink">Cardiovascular</a>, <a href="/cardiovascular/topic.aspx?id=1070" itemprop="relatedLink">Heart Transplant</a>, <a href="/cardiovascular/topic.aspx?id=1006" itemprop="relatedLink">Myocardial Infarction</a> </p> <p class="content-metadata"> <span class="content-metadata__media -article">Article</span> <time class="date" datetime="2017-11-01" itemprop="datePublished">November 1, 2017</time> </p> </div> </li> <li class="content-tease__item"> <div class="content-tease" itemtype="http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle"> <p class="content-tease__topic"> <span class="highlight">Featured</span> </p> <h3 class="content-tease__heading" itemprop="name"> <a href="/cardiovascular/article.aspx?id=1005" itemprop="url"> The Promise of Ventricular-Assist Devices (VADs)</a> </h3> <p itemprop="description"> <p>VAD technology is continually improving. Mass General data indicates new VADs improve 5-year survival rates. Trials for the latest generation are under way.</p></p> <p class="content-tease__related"> <a href="/cardiovascular/topic.aspx?id=1036" itemprop="relatedLink">Cardiac Surgery</a>, <a href="/cardiovascular/specialty.aspx?id=1002" itemprop="relatedLink">Cardiovascular</a>, <a href="/cardiovascular/topic.aspx?id=1003" itemprop="relatedLink">Heart Failure</a>, <a href="/cardiovascular/topic.aspx?id=1070" itemprop="relatedLink">Heart Transplant</a> </p> <p class="content-metadata"> <span class="content-metadata__media -article">Article</span> <time class="date" datetime="2017-10-18" itemprop="datePublished">October 18, 2017</time> </p> </div> </li> <li class="content-tease__item"> <div class="content-tease" itemtype="http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle"> <h3 class="content-tease__heading" itemprop="name"> <a href="/cardiovascular/journal.aspx?id=2642" itemprop="url"> One in Ten Home Hospital Patients With Heart Failure Requires Escalation of Care</a> </h3> <p itemprop="description"> <p>Patients with heart failure who were enrolled in home hospital at Massachusetts General Hospital or Brigham and Women's Hospital had a 10% chance of requiring transfer for at least one night of  traditional inpatient care, and this escalation of care was linked to increased healthcare utilization.</p></p> <p class="content-tease__related"> <a href="/cardiovascular/specialty.aspx?id=1002" itemprop="relatedLink">Cardiovascular</a>, <a href="/cardiovascular/topic.aspx?id=1003" itemprop="relatedLink">Heart Failure</a> </p> <p class="content-metadata"> <span class="content-metadata__media -journal">Journal</span> <time class="date" datetime="2024-08-12" itemprop="datePublished">August 12, 2024</time> </p> </div> </li> <li class="content-tease__item"> <div class="content-tease" itemtype="http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle"> <h3 class="content-tease__heading" itemprop="name"> <a href="/cardiovascular/journal.aspx?id=2609" itemprop="url"> Cardiorenal Biomarkers Predict Major Complications in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease</a> </h3> <p itemprop="description"> <p><span>James L. Januzzi, MD, and colleagues showed that among people with type 2 diabetes and albuminuria, baseline and follow-up concentrations of four biomarkers of cardiorenal stress individually and collectively predicted the risk of heart failure, progression of kidney disease, and related outcomes.</span></p></p> <p class="content-tease__related"> <a href="/cardiovascular/specialty.aspx?id=1002" itemprop="relatedLink">Cardiovascular</a>, <a href="/endocrinology/topic.aspx?id=1105" itemprop="relatedLink">Diabetes</a>, <a href="/cardiovascular/topic.aspx?id=1003" itemprop="relatedLink">Heart Failure</a>, <a href="/urology/topic.aspx?id=1026" itemprop="relatedLink">Kidney</a> </p> <p class="content-metadata"> <span class="content-metadata__media -journal">Journal</span> <time class="date" datetime="2024-04-15" itemprop="datePublished">April 15, 2024</time> </p> </div> </li> <li class="content-tease__item"> <div class="content-tease" itemtype="http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle"> <h3 class="content-tease__heading" itemprop="name"> <a href="/cardiovascular/journal.aspx?id=2510" itemprop="url"> Multicenter Trial Supports Transplantation of Hearts Donated After Circulatory Death</a> </h3> <p itemprop="description"> <p><span>David A. D'Alessandro, MD, and colleagues found that six-month survival was similar in patients who received donor hearts that were reanimated and assessed with extracorporeal nonischemic perfusion after circulatory death and those whose donor hearts were preserved with cold storage after brain death.</span></p></p> <p class="content-tease__related"> <a href="/cardiovascular/specialty.aspx?id=1002" itemprop="relatedLink">Cardiovascular</a>, <a href="/cardiovascular/topic.aspx?id=1003" itemprop="relatedLink">Heart Failure</a>, <a href="/cardiovascular/topic.aspx?id=1070" itemprop="relatedLink">Heart Transplant</a> </p> <p class="content-metadata"> <span class="content-metadata__media -journal">Journal</span> <time class="date" datetime="2023-07-10" itemprop="datePublished">July 10, 2023</time> </p> </div> </li> <li class="content-tease__item"> <div class="content-tease" itemtype="http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle"> <h3 class="content-tease__heading" itemprop="name"> <a href="/geriatrics/journal.aspx?id=2397" itemprop="url"> Frailty Status Affects Outcomes of Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized With HF</a> </h3> <p itemprop="description"> <p><span>Tamra Keeney, DPT, PhD, and team found that from 2008–2015, post-acute care use increased among frail Medicare beneficiaries discharged after hospitalization for heart failure. Although the number of days spent alive at home improved, mortality and readmission rates were highest among beneficiaries classified as frail.</span></p></p> <p class="content-tease__related"> <a href="/cardiovascular/specialty.aspx?id=1002" itemprop="relatedLink">Cardiovascular</a>, <a href="/geriatrics/topic.aspx?id=1112" itemprop="relatedLink">Frailty</a>, <a href="/geriatrics/specialty.aspx?id=1009" itemprop="relatedLink">Geriatrics and Palliative Care</a>, <a href="/cardiovascular/topic.aspx?id=1003" itemprop="relatedLink">Heart Failure</a> </p> <p class="content-metadata"> <span class="content-metadata__media -journal">Journal</span> <time class="date" datetime="2023-01-18" itemprop="datePublished">January 18, 2023</time> </p> </div> </li> </ui> <p class="fat-link__cta u-flush u-text-right"> <a class="fat-link -caret -large" href="https://advances.massgeneral.org/search.aspx?q=*&st=1&topic=heart%20failure&maxResults=15">View All Heart Failure Updates</a> </p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="-background--grey -padding--vertical -padding--horizontal"> <div class="content-container -width--wide -centered"> <h2 class="section-heading -centered">Heart Failure Contributors</h2> <ul class="profile-card__list" id="profile-cards"> <li class="profile-card" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <div class="profile-card__content"> <p class="profile-card__content__image"> <img alt="James Louis Januzzi, MD" itemprop="image" srcset="/assets/images/contributors/Januzzi_James_17167_advances.png, /assets/images/contributors/Januzzi_James_17167_advances_2x.png 2x" src="/assets/images/contributors/Januzzi_James_17167_advances.png"> </p> <h3 class="profile-card__name" itemprop="name"> <a href="/contributors/contributor.aspx?id=1008" itemprop="url">James Louis Januzzi, MD</a> </h3> <p itemprop="jobTitle"> Director, Dennis and Marilyn Barry Fellowship in Cardiology Research, Cardiologist, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Hutter Family Professor of Medicine in the Field of Cardiology, Harvard Medical School</p> <p class="profile-card__article"> <strong>Recent Article</strong><br> <a href="/cardiovascular/journal.aspx?id=2609">Cardiorenal Biomarkers Predict Major Complications in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease</a> </p> </div> <p class="profile-card__image"> <img alt="James Louis Januzzi, MD" itemprop="image" srcset="/assets/images/contributors/Januzzi_James_17167_advances.png, /assets/images/contributors/Januzzi_James_17167_advances_2x.png 2x" src="/assets/images/contributors/Januzzi_James_17167_advances.png"> </p> </li> <li class="profile-card" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <div class="profile-card__content"> <p class="profile-card__content__image"> <img alt="Thoralf M. 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