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Health Encyclopedia: Congestive Heart Failure Causes
- Congestive Heart Failure Causes
- Highlights
- Introduction
- Symptoms of Congestive Heart Failure
- Congestive Heart Failure Risk Factors
- Congestive Heart Failure Complications
- Congestive Heart Failure Diagnosis
Causes
Heart failure has many causes and can evolve in different ways.
- It can be a direct, last-stage result of heart damage from one or more of several heart or circulation diseases.
- It can occur over time as the heart tries to compensate for abnormalities caused by these conditions, a condition called remodeling.
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