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Heart failure
Inability of the heart to pump blood at an adequate rate to meet tissue metabolic requirements. Clinical symptoms of heart failure include: unusual dyspnea on light exertion, recurrent dyspnea occurring in the supine position, fluid retention or rales, jugular venous distension, pulmonary edema on physical exam, or pulmonary edema on chest x-ray presumed to be cardiac dysfunction.
- Identifiers
- MONDO:0005252
- Part of
- Heart disorder
- Also known as
- cardiac failure · cardiac insufficiency · failure, heart · insufficiency, Cardiac
Subtypes
| Disease | Subtypes |
|---|---|
| Congestive heart failure | 9 |
| Symptomatic heart failure | 3 |
| Cardio-renal syndrome | |
| High output heart failure |
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