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Left Sided Heart Failure

Health Encyclopedia: Left Sided Heart Failure

Alternative Names

Congestive heart failure - left

Prevention

Follow your health care provider's advice for treatment of conditions that may cause congestive heart failure. Follow dietary guidelines and minimize or eliminate smoking and alcohol consumption.

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Expert & Community Posts

Heart failure, is it All the Same?

By Dr. Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert

Not really. In fact, heart failure is newly diagnosed in more than half a million... Read more »

Common Hypertension Complications

By Alvin Hopkinson , Health Expert

...more if the hypertension is elevated greatly. Heart failure is another quite serious recourse... Read more »

Hot tubs and heart disease: Trouble or treatment?

By Dr. Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert

...be used as a treatment of patients with congestive heart failure. Recent scientific studies on... Read more »

Watch Medications for all Elders, Particularly Those with Dementia

By Carol Bradley Bursack , Health Expert

After my dad's brain surgery left him demented, the doctors put him on the anti-psychotic drug... Read more »

Why Do Blood Clots Form in Atrial Fibrillation?

By Dr. Kirk Laman: Wholehearted Cardiologist , Health Expert

...C.H.A.D.S. score. If you have any history of congestive heart failure, have high blood... Read more »

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Health Guide

Left-sided heart failure

Left-sided heart failure is a life-threatening condition in which the left side of the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body. Alternative Names Congestive... Read more »

Left-sided heart failure

Congestive heart failure - left Treatment The goals of treatments are: Treat the disease that is causing the heart failure Reduce... Read more »

Left-sided heart failure

Congestive heart failure - left Symptoms Shortness of breath Difficulty lying down; need to sleep with the head elevated to avoid... Read more »

Right-sided heart failure

Right-sided heart failure is a condition in which the right side of the heart loses its ability to pump blood efficiently. Alternative Names Congestive heart failure -... Read more »

Heart failure

Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, is a life-threatening condition in which the heart can no longer pump enough blood to the rest of the body. Alternative... Read more »

Images

Left heart catheterization

Medications

Geodon Oral Precautions and Side Effects

...serious, possibly fatal side effects (e.g., stroke, heart failure) when this medication is used... Read more »

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