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Right-Sided Heart Failure
Alternate Names : Congestive Heart Failure - Right
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Calling Your Health Care Provider
Call your health care provider if you notice symptoms of congestive heart failure or if you have right-sided heart failure and your symptoms change, worsen, or do not improve with treatment.
Also call if chest pain, weakness, fainting, rapid or irregular heartbeat, sudden weight gain, swelling, or other new or unexplained symptoms develop.
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• Definition
• Overview, Causes, & Risk Factors
• Symptoms & Signs
• Prevention
• Diagnosis & Tests
• Treatment
• Prognosis
• Complications
• Calling Your Health Care Provider
• Pictures & Images
Topics that might be of interest to you Diseases & Conditions
• Anemia
• Arrhythmias
• Dilated Cardiomyopathy
• Emphysema
• Heart Disease
• Heart Failure
• Hyperthyroidism
• Kidney Disease
• Left-Sided Heart Failure
• Lung Disease
• Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
Tests & Exams
• CBC
• CHEM-20
• Chest X-Ray
• ECG
• Echocardiogram
• Serum Iron
• Thyroid Function Tests
• Urinalysis
Other Topics
• Alcohol Use
• Blood Pressure - Low
• Chest Pain
• Chronic
• Fainting
• Fatigue
• Fever
• Foot, Leg, and Ankle Swelling
• Headache
• Heart Murmurs and Other Sounds
• Heartbeat Sensations
• Hepatomegaly
• Muscle Cramps
• Swelling
• Urination - Excessive at Night
• Weakness
• Weight Gain - Unintentional
• Weight Loss - Unintentional
Review Date : 2/27/2003
Reviewed By : Jacqueline A. Hart, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Harvard University and Senior Medical Editor, A.D.A.M., Inc.
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