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Understanding the Causes and Symptoms of Conjestive Heart Failure

Saturday 28 October 2006 @ 8:58 pm

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Conjective Heart Failure occurs when the cardiac output cannot meet the metabolic needs of the bodies tissues. It can be caused by myocardial infarction, aortic and mitrial sternosis, aortic regurgitation, myocarditis and systemic hypertension. A whole myriad of symptoms from coughing with sputum, peripheral edema, systemic congestion, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, mental confusion, tissure hypoxia, metabolic acidosis, dyspnea, orthopnea, tachypenea and cyanosis. To fully understand how and why we can the above mentioned symptoms, we need to understand the physiology of the heart.