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Heart failure

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Heart failure means that your heart can't pump enough oxygen-rich blood to meet your body's needs. Heart failure doesn't mean that your heart has stopped or is about to stop beating. But without enough blood flow, your organs may not work well, which can cause serious problems. generated by SI from cited sources · general information, not a diagnosis · consult a health professional

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What it is

Heart failure means that your heart can't pump enough oxygen-rich blood to meet your body's needs. Heart failure doesn't mean that your heart has stopped or is about to stop beating. But without enough blood flow, your organs may not work well, which can cause serious problems.

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Symptoms

Breathlessness, swelling of legs, tiredness, waking breathless at night.

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Causes

The heart cannot pump well, after heart attacks, high blood pressure, valve or rheumatic disease.

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When to seek care

EMERGENCY, go now: severe breathlessness at rest, pink frothy cough, chest pain.

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Diagnosis

Echocardiogram, NT-proBNP.

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Care & treatment

Medicines, salt and fluid advice, devices in some cases. No dosing information is given here.

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Prevention

Control blood pressure, treat sore throats in children to prevent rheumatic fever.

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Clinical guideline

2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA HF guideline, ESC 2021

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Text: SI summary in its own words (CC BY 4.0) with NLM MedlinePlus public-domain summary; facts checked against WHO fact sheets (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO, paraphrased with attribution) and Mayo Clinic (linked reference only, no text used); ICD-10 and labels from Wikidata (CC0).

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