Verquvo (vericiguat) is used for symptomatic chronic heart failure in adults with reduced ejection fraction who are stabilized after a recent heart failure decompensation event.
According to the 2023 Canadian Thoracic Society guidelines on pharmacotherapy in patients
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The 58-year-old Navy veteran was facing near-certain death from heart failure but other health problems meant he wasn’t eligible for a traditional heart transplant.
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is the most prevalent form of the condition, affecting about 2% of teens. Approximately seven times more teenage girls than boys are afflicted with it, says the report released Monday.
"If these findings are borne out in larger studies over extended follow-up periods, it could possibly be the most dramatic change in treating Type 1 diabetes since the discovery of insulin in 1921,” says the lead author of the study.