Heart failure
From BugSigDB
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.
- Aliases
- cardiac failure
- cardiac insufficiency
- failure, heart
- heart failure
- heart failure
- Heart failure (disorder)
- Heart failure NOS
- Heart failure NOS (disorder)
- Heart failure, unspecified
- Heart: [weak] or [failure NOS]
- insufficiency, Cardiac
- Weak heart
