CHARLESTON, S.C. — An ongoing trial at the Medical University of South Carolina is looking for a breakthrough for patients dealing with heart failure.
The condition is called heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, also called “HFpEF ” or “Huff Puff”.
MUSC Professor of Cardiology Dr. Sheldon Litwin has been the lead investigator in the study for the last decade. Litwin says stiff heart muscles create the condition. Litwin says the stiffening of the heart happens with the loss of elastic tissues but a gain of fibrous tissues in the body…