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Heart failure is a clinical syndrome due to a structural or functional cardiac abnormality that impairs the ability of the ventricle to fill with or eject blood in order to deliver oxygen at a rate commensurate with the requirements of the metabolizing tissues in spite of normal filling pressures or only at the expense of elevated filling pressures.
Symptoms are caused by ventricular dysfunction secondary to abnormalities of the myocardium, pericardium, endocardium, valves, heart rhythm or conduction.
Chronic heart failure is a chronic state where patient's signs and symptoms have been unchanged (stable) for at least a month but may decompensate suddenly or slowly when stable chronic heart failure deteriorates leading to hospitalization or outpatient IV diuretic therapy.
Symptoms are caused by ventricular dysfunction secondary to abnormalities of the myocardium, pericardium, endocardium, valves, heart rhythm or conduction.
Chronic heart failure is a chronic state where patient's signs and symptoms have been unchanged (stable) for at least a month but may decompensate suddenly or slowly when stable chronic heart failure deteriorates leading to hospitalization or outpatient IV diuretic therapy.
