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What is Congestive Heart Disease?
Congestive heart disease is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body needs. Weakened chambers allow blood to pool inside the heart and nearby veins. This causes fluid retention, particularly in the lungs, leg and abdomen. It is also known as chronic heart failure or congestive cardiac failure (CCF).
Heart failure becomes more common as people get older. The heart failure may be of following types:
- Systolic heart failure
- Diastolic heart failure
- A combination of above two
Recovery Time
- If the patient is responding to the medication then it takes six months to show improvement.
- For the patients to recover from heart transplant it takes long time depending on the supportive care and patient characteristics.
Diagnosis
- Medical history
- Physical examination
- Echocardiogram
- Electrocardiogram (ECG)
- Chest x-ray
- Cardiac CT scan and MRI
- Angiogram
- Myocardial biopsy
- Stress tests
- Blood tests
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