Congestive Heart Failure <br /><br />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 <br />narrowed arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle — coronary artery disease <br />past heart attack, or myocardial infarction, with scar tissue that interferes with the heart muscle's normal work <br />high blood pressure <br />heart valve disease due to past rheumatic fever or other causes <br />primary disease of the heart muscle itself, called cardiomyopathy. <br />heart defects present at birth — congenital heart defects. <br />infection of the heart valves and/or heart muscle itself — endocarditis and/or myocarditis <br />The "failing" heart keeps working but not as efficiently as it should. People with heart failure can't exert themselves because they become short of breath and tired.
