Heart failure (HF), also called Congestive Heart/Cardiac Failure (CHF/CCF) occurs when the heart is unable to pump adequate blood into the arteries, and the backlog of blood in the heart leads to congestion and backpressure into the lungs and the veins. TYPES Ejection fraction (EF), measured by echocardiography, is the percentage of how much blood the
What is Cardiomyopathy? How is it different from Myocarditis? As the word suggests, cardiomyopathy is a disease (pathy) of the muscles (myo) of the heart (cardio). When heart muscles get damaged, the force of contraction decreases, and so does the amount of blood pumped out into the arteries. This eventually leads to heart failure. Cardiomyopathy
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