What are the cause of congestive heart anticlimax?




Answers:    Congestive heart failure (CHF), or heart flop, is a condition in which the heart can't pump adequate blood to the body's other organs. This can result from

* narrowed arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle — coronary artery disease
* past heart attack, or myocardial infarction, next to scar tissue that interferes next to the heart muscle's normal work
* glorious blood pressure
* heart valve disease due to olden rheumatic fever or other cause
* primary disease of the heart muscle itself, called cardiomyopathy.
* heart defect present at birth — congenital heart defects.
* infection of the heart valve and/or heart muscle itself — endocarditis and/or myocarditis

The "failing" heart keeps working but not as capably as it should. People with heart flop can't exert themselves because they become short of breath and tired.

As blood flow out of the heart slows, blood returning to the heart through the veins back up, causing congestion within the tissues. Often swelling (edema) results. Most often there's swelling surrounded by the legs and ankles, but it can happen contained by other parts of the body, too. Sometimes fluid collects in the lungs and interferes next to breathing, causing shortness of breath, especially when a personage is lying down.

Heart failure also affects the kidneys' capability to dispose of sodium and water. The retained hose increases the edema.

most common signs of congestive heart fiasco are swollen legs or ankles or difficulty breathing. Another symptom is weight gain when fluid builds up.



I hope that this answers your cross-examine.
when you have seriously of fluid built up around it. Dialysis helps. but eventually the hear will just catch tired. My grandmother died from that

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