The heart of the matter: New technology, medications improve outlook for those with heart failure

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Each year in the United States, up to 700,000 new cases of heart failure are diagnosed, according to the Heart Failure Society of America, and more than 5 million people are affected nationwide. Mary Beth Corgan, a nurse practitioner at SoutheastHEALTH's Heart Failure Clinic, says the reasons for the illness vary, from patients having heart valve or coronary artery diseases to hypertension, viral infections or complications from drug or alcohol addictions. Once upon a time, many patients with heart failure only had a life expectancy of about five years.

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