Cardiac failure congestive
Definition: complication of heart diseases; defective cardiac filling and/or impaired contraction and emptying, resulting in the heart's inability to pump a sufficient amount of blood to meet the needs of the body tissues or to be able to do so only with an elevated filling pressure.
Synonyms (terms occurring on more labels are shown first): congestive heart failure, cardiac failure congestive, congestive cardiac failure, congestive heartfailure, congestive heart disease
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