- eMedicine.com: Congestive Heart Failure and Pulmonary Edema
Background and medical details for congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema. Includes heart disease symptoms, causes, tests, treatments, and medications.
emedicine.medscape.com/article/757999-overview
- Heart Canada: Heart Failure
Answers to frequently asked questions about congestive heart failure, the cardiovascular condition in which the heart can no longer pump sufficient blood to the body. Includes causes, symptoms, and treatments.
www.heartcanada.com/heartfailure.php
- Managing Congestive Heart Failure
(PDF)
Learning guide for patients with congestive heart failure, with information about handling medications, nutrition, physical activity, and lifestyle changes. In PDF format, from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.
ww2.heartandstroke.ca/images/English/Managing_CHF.pdf
- Texas Heart Institute Heart Information Center: Congestive Heart Failure
Describes the congestive heart failure, who is at risk, what are its causes, and how it is diagnosed and treated. Includes percutaneous coronary interventions and surgical procedures.
texasheart.org/HIC/Topics/Cond/CHF.cfm
- British Heart Foundation: Heart Failure
Guide to understanding heart failure, the condition in which the heart becomes less efficient in pumping blood. Learn about its causes, the medical treatments, and what patients can do.
www.bhf.org.uk/living_with_a_heart_condition/understanding_heart_conditions...
- BBC Health: Heart Failure
Reference guide to congestive heart failure, the cardiovascular condition in which the heart begins to pump less blood. Includes common causes of heart failure and what doctors and patients can do to treat it. From the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/heartfailure1.shtml
- iVillage Total Health: Heart Failure
Information on heart failure, related conditions, types and differences, risk factors, treatment, and prospects for recovery.
yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/heart-failure.html
- Cleveland Clinic Heart Center: Heart Failure
Resources for understanding and living with heart failure, from the Cleveland Clinic Heart Center. Find out what the causes and symptoms of congestive heart failure are, and what treatments are available.
my.clevelandclinic.org/heart/disorders/heartfailure/hfwhatis.aspx
- Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation: Heart Failure
Fact sheet about congestive heart failure from the Heart and Stoke Foundation of Canada. Covers the types of heart failure, its causes and symptoms, and what to expect from diagnosis and treatment.
ww2.heartandstroke.ca/Page.asp?PageID=1613&ContentID=19579&ContentTypeID=1
- 1on1health.com: Heart Failure
Offers facts about heart failure and day-to-day lifestyle changes that can help you deal with the condition. From GlaxoSmithKline.
www.1on1health.com/1on1HealthWeb/controller/TopicHomepageView/TopicID=1000/...
- MedlinePlus Interactive Tutorial: Congestive Heart Failure
Interactive, pictorial presentation about congestive heart failure, its causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment options, and prescribed medications.
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/congestiveheartfailure/htm/index.htm
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