- Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA)
Organization promoting scientific research into all aspects of heart failure. The Heart Failure Society of American provides a forum for medical research, information for patients, and background facts about the cardiovascular disease.
www.hfsa.org
- American Heart Association: Heart Failure
Congestive heart failure information and updates from the American Heart Association. Learn about heart failure symptoms, treatments, complications, medications, and helpful lifestyle and diet changes.
www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1486
- Heart Failure Online
Dedicated to providing information about congestive heart failure. Includes heart health basics, heart failure causes and symptoms, prevention, and treatment. In English and Spanish.
www.heartfailure.org
- Heart Failure Awareness
Learning modules explaining about congestive heart failure, its symptoms and stages, and treatments to control it. From the Heart Failure Society of America.
www.abouthf.org
- American Heart Association: Congestive Heart Failure
Explains congestive heart failure or CHF, the condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body's other organs.
www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4585
- MedlinePlus: Heart Failure
Collection of news, research, and other resources about congestive heart failure. Find sites about heart failure diagnosis, treatment, prevention, clinical trials, and coping with the condition.
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/heartfailure.html
- NHLBI: What Is Heart Failure?
Fact sheet about congestive heart failure from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Learn what causes the condition, what the signs and symptoms are, and heart failure treatments and prevention.
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Hf/HF_WhatIs.html
- MedlinePlus Encyclopedia: Heart Failure
Facts and treatment information about congestive heart failure, the condition that occurs when the heart fails to pump enough blood for the body. Find out about how heart failure is diagnosed, its symptoms, and living with the disease.
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000158.htm
- NIHSeniorHealth: Heart Failure
Describes about heart failure, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
nihseniorhealth.gov/heartfailure/toc.html
- CHFpatients.com
Information resources and support for those with congestive heart failure. Covers types of heart failure, exercise and diet tips, heart failure treatments and medications, and facts about heart transplants.
www.chfpatients.com
- Mayo Clinic: Heart Failure
Fact sheet about congestive heart failure, the cardiovascular condition in which the heart's ability to pump blood weakens. Find out about risk factors, screening and diagnosis, prevention, and living with the condition.
www.mayoclinic.com/health/heart-failure/DS00061
- MedicineNet: Congestive Heart Failure
Online reference to congestive heart failure, with information about what causes the condition, what its symptoms are, how it is diagnosed, and the long-term outlook for CHF patients.
www.medicinenet.com/congestive_heart_failure/article.htm
- Cut to the Heart
Online exhibit about congestive heart failure and its treatment. Includes a map of the human heart and its pumping cycle, details about pioneers of heart surgery, and examples of heart disease. From PBS.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/heart
- NetDoctor: Heart Failure
Basic facts about heart failure as well as its causes, symptoms, and preventive measures.
www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/heartfailure.htm
- Merck Manual: Heart Failure
Provides causes, symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment for the disorder of the heart causing reduced blood flow to other parts of the body.
www.merck.com/mmhe/sec03/ch025/ch025a.html
- eMedicineHealth: Congestive Heart Failure
Provides overview, causes, symptoms, treatment, self-care at home and prevention of congestive heart failure where the pumping function of the heart reduces or weakens.
www.emedicinehealth.com/congestive_heart_failure/article_em.htm
- Heart Failure Matters
Practical information on heart failure for patients, families, and caregivers. Includes information on heart function, types of heart failure, warning signs, tests, and managing and living with it.
www.heartfailurematters.org/English_Lang/Pages/index.aspx
- HeartPoint: Congestive Heart Failure
Features the FAQs of congestive heart failure or CHF.
www.heartpoint.com/congheartfailuretellme.html
- FamilyDoctor: Heart Failure
Heart failure basics and answers to frequently asked questions about the cardiovascular disease, from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Covers the causes and symptoms of heart failure, and what to expect in treatment.
familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/heartdisease/basics/119.html
- CardiologyChannel: Congestive Heart Failure
Covers causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment for congestive heart failure.
www.cardiologychannel.com/chf/index.shtml
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