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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Congestive Heart Failure
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Imaging Studies, Diagnostic Procedures, Treatment, Medications, Surgery, Therapeutic Procedures, Outcome, Follow-Up, Complications, Prevention, Prognosis, When to Refer, When to Admit, References,
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Topics Discussed: congestive heart failure.
Excerpt: | |  Left ventricular (LV) congestive heart failure (CHF)
| | – Exertional dyspnea – Cough – Fatigue – Orthopnea – Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea – Cardiac enlargement – Rales – Gallop rhythm – Pulmonary venous congestion |
Right ventricular (RV) CHF | | – Elevated venous pressure – Hepatomegaly – Dependent edema – Usually due to LV failure |
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