RLO: Heart Failure

 

Heart failure

Heart failure is the condition that exists when the heart cannot maintain a sufficient cardiac output to meet the metabolic demands of the body. In the failing heart the stroke volume is reduced, and as a consequence the cardiac output also falls.

 

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