Leg cramps may also be an early warning sign of congestive heart failure. In people with CHF, the heart doesn't pump blood with enough force. Not enough blood is pumped from the heart to the body ...

A simple three-second test could reveal a potentially deadly health condition, according to experts. It may seem strange but pressing down on your leg could indicate if you have heart failure, ...

If you see your cardiologist and they throw out the term “heart failure,” your heart might figuratively skip a beat. The ...

Treatment for congestive heart failure typically includes drugs that ... swelling in the feet, ankles, or legs blood or pink-tinged mucus when coughing increasing shortness of breath during ...

Shortness of breath: One of the first signs of CHF is difficulty breathing, especially during physical activity or while lying flat. This happens because fluid in the lungs makes it harder for them to ...

Right-sided heart failure causes blood to back up in the veins, leading to swelling in the legs, ankles, and abdomen. Left-sided heart failure is more common and may lead to right-sided failure.

The section presents a review of diastolic congestive heart failure, commonly called HFpEF ... lower extremity-dependent edema. When the legs are elevated at night, reabsorption of extracellular ...

The following is a summary of “Unmasking High-Output Heart Failure: Beyond Conventional Paradigms,” published in the January ...

A research team in the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) ...

Often there is also right heart failure, which causes fluid to accumulate in the tissues and organs of the body, usually the legs and ankles ... with rapid progression from congestive heart failure to ...

The resting electrocardiogram (ECG) furnishes essential information for the diagnosis, management, and prognostic evaluation of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Almost any ECG ...