congestive heart failure
Noun
Meaning
inability to pump enough blood to avoid congestion in the tissues
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“About a month ago, I met a young man at Powderhorn experiencing heart rhythm disorder, who was clearly in congestive heart failure short of breath while he was talking to me,” he said.
After many years of ill health, Taylor died from congestive heart failure at the age of 79 in 2011.
At the age of 90, Mulliken died of congestive heart failure at his daughter's home in Arlington, Virginia on October 31, 1986.
And when we compare it to these other disease processes that sound very bad—CHF, congestive heart failure, arthritis, things like that, you can modify your life to adapt to that disease.
Longtime Thermopolis resident, Barbara Elmeta (Beaver) Valentine, 87, passed away March 9, 2020, in Casper, Wyo., at Casper Mountain Rehabilitation and Care Center following a long battle with vascular dementia and congestive heart failure.
His will to live was strong and he fought a long brave battle against congestive heart failure, COPD and diabetes.