MEDICAL BIOLOGY, HUMAN ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY - Ya.I. Fedoniuk 2010

ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, PATHOLOGY

CHAPTER 5. BLOOD AND LYMPH CIRCULATION PROCESSES AND THEIR PATHOLOGY

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM DISEASES

HEART FAILURE

Heart Failure develops when the workload on The Heart mismatches its capacity to perform work, driven by impaired pumping function of one or both ventricles or increased resistance to Cardiac Output. Under these conditions, the heart is unable to pump all the venous return into the Arteries.



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