Heart Failure

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Heart failure is a condition where the heart’s muscle becomes damaged to adequately pump the blood around your body. If you have heart failure your heart still works but because it is less effective your organs do not get enough blood and oxygen. Heart failure tends to affect older people more often and manifests as shortness of breath (water accumulation in the lungs), reduced exercise tolerance (poor pumping efficiency) and swelling of the abdomen, scrotum, ankles. Heart failure can be caused by IHD, hypertension, valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathy, infections, arrthymias etc