Heart failure often develops after other conditions have damaged or weakened your heart. Over time, the heart can no longer keep up with the normal demands placed on it to pump blood to the rest of your body.
Coronary artery disease and high blood pressure are the main risk factors for congestive heart failure.
Im not a doctor but that sounds a lot like a heart attack.
Pulmonary edema, Congestive heart failure,
Diagnosis: Congestive heart failure. What is the condition?
Congestive Heart failure.
A promising treatment for Congestive Heart Failure is EECP (Enhanced External Counter-Pulsation).
Congestive Heart Failure can cause edema in the extrimities
Not always but can be and it most likely runs in your genetics
Chronic alcoholism can lead to dilated cardiomyopathy which consequently can result in congestive heart failure.
Congestive heart failure - right-sided occurs in 1 in 20 people. It is a condition in which the right side of the heart loses its ability to pump blood efficiently.
Congestive heart failure involving the right side of the heart would be evident in the body as edematous feet.
Over time, untreated, worsening congestive heart failure will affect virtually every organ in the body.