Congestive heart failure overview
| Heart failure | |
| ICD-10 | I50.0 |
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| ICD-9 | 428.0 |
| DiseasesDB | 16209 |
| MedlinePlus | 000158 |
| eMedicine | med/3552 |
| MeSH | D006333 |
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Overview of Congestive Heart Failure
- Clinical syndrome resulting from inadequate systemic perfusion from any structural or functional disorder that impairs the ability of the ventricle to fill with or eject blood.
- The classic syndrome of heart failure is dyspnea, fatigue, and fluid retention.
- There are two broad categories of heart failure:
- Systolic Heart Failure and
- Diastolic Heart Failure.