Heart failure is defined as a clinical syndrome in which an abnormality of cardiac structure or function is responsible for the inability of the heart to eject or fill with blood at a rate commensurate with the requirements of metabolizing tissues.
The cause of heart failure vary, the most common cause of which is ischemic heart disease.
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The cause of heart failure vary, the most common cause of which is ischemic heart disease.
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Key points explained here are
- General Etiologies Of Cardiac Failure
- Underlying cardiac disease
- Symptoms of heart failure
- Symptoms of predominant right-sided Heart Failure
- NYHA Grading
- Staging of systolic HF
- Conditions that MIMIC CHF
- Measures for symptom relief
- FUROSEMIDE, BUMETANIDE, AND TORSEMIDE
- POTASSIUM-SPARING DIURETICS
- Prevention of deterioration of cardiac function
- Enhancement of Cardiac contractility
- Nesiritide, a recombinant analog of BNP
- Drugs increasing Mortality
