Heart Failure
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Chemo-induced CHF Dobutamine therapy
40 days ago after receiving my 1st maintenance chemo treatment (Yondelis) I was admitted to the hospital for CHF. I was treated with Milrinone and now on Dobutamine. The CHF caused renal failure and now on dialysis. The doctors say I may never...
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Home-delivered meals keep heart failure patients out of hospital
American Heart Association News (Prostock-studio) The delivery of personalized, low-sodium meals to the homes of heart failure patients just out of the hospital has the potential to help them avoid rehospitalization in the days ahead, a new...
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Side effects of heart meds?
Since starting coreg and lisinopril I have had low blood pressure. My issue is that almost everytime I stand up I get a bit dizzy, lightheaded, and my heart speeds up substantially for 5-10 seconds before normalizing. I have little kids so I am constantly...
read morelatest replyAzrunner1651, August 17, 2018 10:30am EST
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I feel scared often with my heart failure diagnosis
Hi, I am 63 now and a retired high risk OB Nurse Practitioner. I was diagnosed at age 60 when I was at work and went into complete heart block. I had to get a pacemaker that day. I am on all the heart meds your'e suppose to take with heart failure. I...
read morelatest replyJamesPL, August 15, 2018 8:26pm EST
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Dilated left atrium
Does anyone else here have an enlarged left atrium as a result of heart failure?
read morelatest replyAzrunner1651, August 17, 2018 10:26am EST
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Spouse stage 4 CHF angry outburstd
Help!!! My husband is stage 4 CHF, he had stents put in April, had another heart attack in July, had ablation procedure end of July and is currently on heart monitor. He is forgetting things which I am very patient with, but in last few weeks has been...
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Something's Not Right...HELP!
Diagnosed with Stage 3 CHF with an EF of 10-15% in May 2018.in the hospital for a week because of it. I have no health insurance because I don't have a job because prior to being diagnosed with CHF, the condition brought my body down to the point
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Recent cardiac mri
I received the results of my cardiac mri this week. My initial.echo.showed lvef of 40-45 with mild hypokinesis. The mri showed lvef of 59 with no motion abnormalities. However the rvef is 30. The cardiologist said that the right ventricle can suffer...
read morelatest replyAHAASAKatie, August 10, 2018 9:32am EST
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Ejection Fraction hasn't improved in 6 weeks.
Very recently diagnosed with HF. EF was 20-25% when i was in the hospital 6 weeks ago. Had to be put on a life vest because of low EF. Had another Cardio Eko on Monday and it showed EF was still 20-25%. What does this mean? Is the medicine not working?...
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