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Congestive Heart Failure |
Heart Failure; Heart Failure, Congestive |
Congestive heart failure (CHF), also called congestive cardiac failure (CCF) or just heart failure, is a condition that can result from any structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ability of the heart to fill with or pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body. It is not to be confused with "cessation of heartbeat", which is known as asystole, or with cardiac arrest, which is the cessation of normal cardiac function in the face of heart disease. Because not all ...
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Congestive Heart Failure Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- American Association for Clinical Chemistry
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- American Heart Association http://www.americanheart.org/
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- American College of Physicians http://www.acponline.org/
- American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/
- National Library of Medicine
- American Association for Respiratory Care http://www.aarc.org/
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Texas Heart Institute http://www.texasheartinstitute.org
- National Institute of Nursing Research http://ninr.nih.gov/ninr/
- Heart Rhythm Society
- Heart Failure Society of America
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Information Center, NHLBI, NIH, HHS http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/infoctr/index.htm
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, HHS http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm
- MayoClinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
- HealthWorld http://www.healthy.net/
- University of Maryland Medical Center http://www.umm.edu/
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