congestive heart failure: what are the symptoms and types

What are the symptoms of congestive heart failure?

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a syndrome that can be brought about by several causes. Congestive heart failure is a weakening of the heart caused by an underlying heart or blood vessel problem, or a combination of several different problems, including the following: Weakened heart muscle (cardiomyopathy)

What is the most common cause of left-sided heart failure?

When the left ventricle fails, increased fluid pressure is, in effect, transferred back through the lungs, ultimately damaging the heart's right side. When the right side loses pumping power, blood backs up in the body's veins. This usually causes swelling in the legs and ankles. 

What is a left ventricular failure?

heart failure in which the left ventricle fails to contract forcefully enough to maintain a normal cardiac output and peripheral perfusion. Pulmonary congestion and edema develop from back pressure of accumulated blood in the left ventricle.

What is the most common cause of right heart failure?

High blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries increases the workload of the right ventricle, eventually causing the right ventricle to fail. CAD can cause left-sided heart failure leading to right-sided heart failureor can directly cause right-sided heart failure by blocking blood supply to the right ventricle.

Major Types of Heart Block - Congestive Heart Failure

In severe cases where the heart's ability to control and trigger heartbeats may be completely ineffective or unreliable, heart block can usually be treated by inserting an artificial pacemaker, a medical device that provides correct electrical impulses to trigger heart beats, compensating for the natural pacemaker's unreliability. Therefore, heart block frequently has no effects, or mild and occasional effects, and is not life-threatening in the vast majority of cases, and is usually treatable in more serious cases.

Sudden cardiac arrest is not a heart attack, even though you may hear the terms “heart attack” or "massive heart attack" used to describe it. A heart attack happens when blood flow to a part of the heart is slowed or stopped, usually because of plaque rupture in one of the coronary arteries.