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Congestive Heart Failure

Congestive Heart Failure is the inability of the heart to pump out all the blood that returns to it. This results in blood backing up in the veins that lead to the heart and sometimes in fluid accumulating in various parts of the body.

Click here for the Congestive Heart Failure Education Handbook