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- congestive heart failure: - descriptions, causes (including other diseases), common manifestations, FACES - compensatory mechanisms...

- congestive heart failure:

- descriptions, causes (including other diseases), common manifestations, FACES

- compensatory mechanisms and explain why they eventually cause further heart damage

- left and right sided failure:

- explain backward (where does blood back up) and forward (what areas are affected by impaired blood flow) effects

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Congestive heart failure

DESCRIPTION

Congestive heart failure happens when some state like coronary heart disease or high blood pressure, make your heart muscle too fatigued to work effectively as normal.

CAUSES

  • Hypertension
  • Coronary Artery Disease
  • heart valve defects
  • Chronic alcoholism
  • Diabetes
  • Obesity

COMMON MANIFESTATIONS

  • Increased and fast heartbeat
  • Dyspnea
  • Fatigue
  • Edema of leg and ankles
  • Decreased appetite
  • Nausea
  • Frequent cough
  • Chest pain

FACES (Symptoms)

  • Fatigue
  • Activity controlling
  • Congestion
  • Edema
  • Shortness of breath
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