Congestive heart failure

Congestive heart failure (CHF) or heart failure is a condition in which the heart can’t pump enough blood to the body’s other organs. This can result from narrowed arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle – coronary artery disease, past heart attack, or myocardial infarction, with scar tissue that interferes with the heart muscle’s normal work, high blood pressure, heart valve disease due to past rheumatic fever or other causes, primary disease of the heart muscle itself, called cardiomyopathy, [...]