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Heart failure may convey that the heart isn’t working anymore, but what it really means is that the heart isn’t pumping as well as it should be (REF). Heart failure is a chronic, progressive condition in which the heart muscle is unable to pump enough blood through to meet the body’s needs for blood and oxygen (REF). At first, the heart tries to make up for this by enlarging, developing more muscle mass, and pumping faster. As this happens, the blood vessels narrow to keep blood pressure up and the body diverts blood away from less important tissues and organs to maintain flow to the heart and brain (REF). Eventually, the body and heart cannot keep up and the patient begins to feel fatigue, breathing problems, weight gain with swelling in the feet, legs, ankles or stomach, and other symptoms that eventually leads to a hospital visit. The body’s coping mechanisms give us better understanding on why many are unaware of their condition until years after the heart declines (REF).

The cardiovascular disease defines conditions that affect the heart or blood vessels. Thrombosis, which emanates from blood clots, reduced blood flow to the heart, brain and the rest of the body. When fatty acids deposit in the artery, it hardens and narrows. These issues lead to stroke, coronary heart disease, aortic disease and peripheral arterial disease. Coronary heart disease occurs due to a reduced or blocked flow of oxygen-rich blood to the heart. It is a result of accumulated fats in the coronary arteries. Coronary arteries are a set of blood vessels that take blood to the heart. When they become narrow, the heart gets less of a supply of blood and oxygen causing chest pains, called angina or a heart attack, explains VanMeter &

Heart failure means the muscle of heart is weakened so that it cannot pump blood as it should, then the blood back up into the blood vessels around the lungs and the other part of the body. If want to know more, please see video [1]

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A heart attack occurs when an artery that supplies blood to the heart becomes blocked. The loss of oxygen and nutrients damage the heart's muscle tissue, causing the remaining healthy tissue to pump even harder to keep up.

Congestive Heart Failure is when the heart's pumping power is weaker than normal. It does not mean the heart has stopped working. The blood moves through the heart and body at a slower rate, and pressure in the heart increases. This means; the heart cannot pump enough oxygen and nutrients to meet the body's needs. The chambers of the heart respond by stretching to hold more blood to pump through the body or by becoming more stiff and thickened. This only keeps the blood moving for a short while. The heart muscle walls weaken and are unable to pump as strongly. This makes the kidneys respond by causing the body to retain fluid and sodium. When the body builds up with fluids, it becomes congested. Many conditions can cause heart

Congestive heart failure describes the inability or failure (chronic, progressive condition) of the heart to adequately meet the needs of organs and tissues for oxygen and nutrients. This decrease in cardiac output, the amount of blood that the heart pumps, is not adequate to circulate the blood returning to the heart from the body and lungs, causing fluid (mainly water) to leak from capillary blood vessels. This leads to the symptoms that may include shortness of breath, weakness, and swelling. Many disease processes can impair the pumping efficiency of the heart to cause congestive heart failure. In the United States, the most common causes of congestive heart failure are:

there is little or not enough blood pumped from the heart to the rest of the body.

Heart failure is term that is used to describe the heart’s inability to work efficiently as a pump. In order to decipher if an individual is likely to have heart failure is through their health history. Common backgrounds associated are diabetes mellitus, kidney dysfunction, hypertension, chronic lung disease, angina, myocardial infarction, and ischemic heart disease (Kirk, 2011). It is accompanied by shortness of breath on exertion, decreased exercise tolerance, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, orthopnea, ankle swelling, sudden weight gain, lack of appetite or nausea and difficulty concentrating (Kirk, 2011). In worsening conditions it could progress to fluid buildup, rapid or irregular heartbeat, chest pains , and sudden

Heart failure-is the main focus of this project and is when the pumping action of the heart cannot supply enough blood to the rest of the body as a result of damaged cardiac tissue in the heart specifically.

Heart failure is a condition in which the heart muscle becomes too weak to maintain an adequate cardiac output to meet the body’s

There are many causes of heart failure. Among them is a reduction in the contractile ability of the heart due to mechanical problems or any problem that limits the filling capacity of the heart chambers with blood due to any form of cardiomyopathy. Whatever the cause, the patient’s tissues are compromised because they cannot receive an adequate amount of oxygen necessary to perform optimally (Bui, Horwich, & Fonarow, 2010).

Because ischemic heart disease is caused by a lack of oxygen-rich blood to the heart, your heart may be damaged, even to the point of being unable to pump blood to the rest of your body. This condition is known as heart failure, which gradually weakens the entire body, causing swelling, coughing, lack of concentration, loss of appetite, and general fatigue. The electrical impulses of your heart may also be affected, leading to irregular heart

When the heart is no longer able to pump enough blood to sustain the body’s metabolic needs, it is referred to as heart failure or cardiac insufficiency. The most recent definition is that heart failure should be viewed as a neurohormonal problem that progresses as a result of chronic release in the body of substances such as catecholamines (epinephrine and norepinephrine). Epinephrine and norepinephrine are hormones of the sympathetic nervous system and produce negative effects on the failing heart and circulatory system. Circulatory congestion and compensatory mechanisms will occur. Heart failure may develop after a Myocardial Infarction in response to prolonged hypertension or diabetes mellitus, or in relation to vulvar or inflammatory heart disease.

inability of the heart to pump sufficient blood to meet the needs of the tissues for oxygen and