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Heart Failure
Alternate Names : CHF, Congestive Heart Failure
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Calling Your Health Care Provider
Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of congestive heart failure.
Call your health care provider if weakness, increased cough or sputum production, sudden weight gain or swelling, or other new or unexplained symptoms develop.
Go to the emergency room or call the local emergency number (such as 911) if you experience severe crushing chest pain, fainting, or rapid and irregular heartbeat (particularly if other symptoms accompany a rapid and irregular heartbeat).
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• Definition
• Heart Failure Overview, Causes, & Risk Factors
• Heart Failure Symptoms & Signs
• Heart Failure Prevention
• Heart Failure Diagnosis & Tests
• Heart Failure Treatment
• Heart Failure Prognosis
• Heart Failure Complications
• Calling Your Health Care Provider
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Tests & Exams
• Blood Pressure
• BUN
• CBC
• CHEM-20
• Chest X-Ray
• Coronary Angiography
• Creatinine - Serum
• Creatinine Clearance
• Dialysis
• ECG
• Echocardiogram
• Liver Function Tests
• Nuclear Ventriculography (MUGA or RNV)
• Pericardiocentesis
• Pulse
• Serum Sodium
• Swan-Ganz - Right Heart Catheterization
• Thoracic CT
• Uric Acid
• Urinalysis
Surgery & Procedures
• Heart Transplant
Other Topics
• Abdomen - Swollen
• Alcohol Use
• Appetite - Decreased
• Auscultation
• Blood Pressure - Low
• Breathing Difficulty
• Chest Pain
• Chronic
• Consciousness - Decreased
• Cough
• Diarrhea
• Fainting
• Fatigue
• Fever
• Foot, Leg, and Ankle Swelling
• Headache
• Heart Murmurs and Other Sounds
• Heartbeat Sensations
• Heartburn
• Hepatomegaly
• Indigestion
• Intravenous
• Nausea and Vomiting
• Obesity
• Physical Examination
• Sleeping Difficulty
• Swelling
• Systemic
• Urination - Excessive at Night
• Urine Output - Decreased
• Weakness
• Weight Gain - Unintentional
• Weight Loss - Unintentional
Review Date : 10/31/2001
Reviewed By : Elena Sgarbossa, M.D., Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
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