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Congestive Heart failure

Congestive heart failure is the inefficiency of our heart in pumping up the blood accurately in body.

Congestive heart failure takes place when the muscle of heart turns to be feeble and makes the working of heart ineffective.

The chief function of arteries is to provide blood to heart, but when these arteries become narrow, the effective supply suffers.

The chances of congestive heart failure increase to the maximum if coronary blood vessel ailment or myocardial infractions occur.

It hampers the usual function of heart muscles and causes congestive heart failure.

Indicators of Congestive heart failure:

• Blood pressure becomes excessively high
• Prolonged heart valve disease
• Suffering from cardiomyopathy
• Hereditary heart defects
• Contagion in the valves of heart [1]

Congestive Heart failure

The infected heart doesn’t cease working rather the competence level decreases. The patients suffering from congestive heart failure can’t work for a longer period of time. After consecutive working for an hour or so, they become totally exhausted and feel helpless to continue with the work. Soon they become out of breath and experience acute fatigue. In that case the actual flow of blood decreases and the heart starts getting blood from the back up of veins, which leads to congestive heart failure. Swelling in the various organs of body especially in the legs is faced. [1] In many cases the liquid is being stored in the lungs and the patient can’t breathe comfortably. Due to congestive heart failure the working of kidney is terribly affected as it can’t set out sodium and water from body.

The patients can face one or in specific conditions many symptoms before the congestive heart failure. In this chain process when the heart muscle becomes weak, they supply of blood to kidney hampers, which makes a room for malfunctioning of kidney. If kidney keeps more fluid, the lungs will be congested and the patient suffers from an instant congestive heart failure.

Reference:

1. Revising medical author: Daniel Kulick, MD, FACC, FSCAI and revising medical    editor: Dennis Lee, MD.