Congestive Cardiac Failure : A Case based Discussion

Clinical Features , Investigations and Management of Heart Failure and Its Differential Diagnosis
Congestive heart failure, or heart failure, is a long-term condition in which your heart can’t pump blood well enough to meet your body’s needs. Your heart is still working. But because it can’t handle the amount of blood it should, blood builds up in other parts of your body. Most of the time, it collects in your lungs, legs and feet.

Think of it like a shipping department that can’t keep up with getting all the shipments where they need to go. The shipping department is always running behind and things pile up. When things pile up, they cause issues.

Types of congestive heart failure
Types of congestive heart failure include:

Left-sided heart failure.
Right-sided heart failure.
High-output heart failure. This is a rare type of congestive heart failure.
How common is congestive heart failure?
More than 6 million people in the United States have congestive heart failure. It’s the leading cause of hospitalization in people older than 65.