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Bookmark or Share- Congestive Heart Failure: Symptoms, Stages & TreatmentCongestive heart failure, or heart failure, is a long-term condition in which your heart can’t pump blood well enough to meet your body’s needs. Your heart is still working. But because it can’t handle the amount of blood it should, blood builds up in other parts of your body.
- Heart failure - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo ClinicDiagnosis. To diagnose heart failure, your health care provider examines you and asks questions about your symptoms and medical history. Your provider checks to see if you have risk factors for heart failure, such as high blood pressure, coronary artery disease or diabetes. Your care provider listens to your lungs and heart with a device called ...
- Heart Failure Signs and Symptoms | American Heart AssociationFluid builds up in the lungs (see above). Buildup of excess fluid in body tissues (edema) ... swelling in the feet, ankles, legs, fingers, abdomen and in other tissues and organs. As a result, weight gain is common. If you have heart failure, your heart doesn’t pump with enough force. This means that not enough blood is pumped out of the ...
- Heart failure - Symptoms and causes - Mayo ClinicHeart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), also called systolic heart failure: This is a type of left-sided heart failure. The left ventricle can't squeeze as strong as it should. The heart isn't strong enough to pump enough blood to the body. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), also called diastolic heart failure
- What is Heart Failure? | American Heart AssociationHeart failure is a term used to describe a heart that cannot keep up with its workload. The body may not get the oxygen it needs. Heart failure is a serious condition, and usually there’s no cure. But many people with heart failure lead a full, enjoyable life when the condition is managed with heart failure medications and a healthy lifestyle.
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