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  2. Heart failure - Wikipedia

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    The left side of the heart takes oxygen-rich blood from the lungs and pumps it to the rest of the circulatory system in the body (except for the pulmonary circulation). Failure of the left side of the heart causes blood to back up into the lungs, causing breathing difficulties and fatigue due to an insufficient supply of oxygenated blood.

  3. Pathophysiology of heart failure - Wikipedia

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    The symptoms of heart failure are largely determined by which side of the heart fails. The left side pumps blood into the systemic circulation, whilst the right side pumps blood into the pulmonary circulation. Whilst left-sided heart failure will reduce cardiac output to the systemic circulation, the initial symptoms often manifest due to ...

  4. Wikipedia:Osmosis/Heart failure - Wikipedia

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    For left-sided heart failure, certain medications can be prescribed to help improve blood flow, like ACE inhibitors which help dilate blood vessels, as well as diuretics to help reduce the overall fluid buildup in the body which helps prevent hypertension from worsening the heart failure.

  5. What Is Acute Heart Failure? Here’s What You Need to Know - AOL

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    What is heart failure? If ever there were a prize awarded for “most misleading name given to a medical condition,” heart failure would win hands down. “Heart failure (also called congestive ...

  6. Myocardial infarction complications - Wikipedia

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    3D still showing normal heart vs heart failure. A myocardial infarction may compromise the function of the heart as a pump for the circulation , a state called heart failure . There are different types of heart failure; left- or right-sided (or bilateral) heart failure may occur depending on the affected part of the heart, and it is a low ...

  7. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction - Wikipedia

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    Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a form of heart failure in which the ejection fraction – the percentage of the volume of blood ejected from the left ventricle with each heartbeat divided by the volume of blood when the left ventricle is maximally filled – is normal, defined as greater than 50%; [1] this may be measured by echocardiography or cardiac catheterization.

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