Cleveland Clinic asked more than 100 of its top experts about the innovations set to reshape healthcare in the coming year. These are their answers — the Top 10 Innovations for 2014.
Heart failure affects both the length and quality of life. This debilitating ailment accounts for 55,000 deaths annually in this country.
Even with improved drugs and devices, half of those hospitalized with acute heart failure don’t survive more than five years; 25 percent die within a year of admission. However, cardiologists soon may have a new weapon in their heart failure armory — serelaxin, which can relieve symptoms and protect vital organs from damage during an acute episode.