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Congestive heart failure is a condition in which your heart can't pump enough oxygen-rich blood to meet your body's needs. When your heart doesn't pump efficiently, blood may back up into your lungs and other tissues.
The severity of congestive heart failure depends on how much pumping capacity your heart has lost. As they age, most people lose some pumping capacity. However, in congestive heart failure, your heart has very little pumping capacity. Congestive heart failure often results from damage caused by a heart attack, high blood pressure, diabetes or other conditions.
The doctors and researchers at Mayo Clinic actively develop new ways to diagnose and treat people who have heart failure. Each year, Mayo Clinic doctors trained in heart care (cardiologists) evaluate and treat thousands of people who have congestive heart failure.
Cardiologists and other specialists staff heart failure clinics at each Mayo Clinic location. The staff works together as a team to diagnose and treat all forms of congestive heart failure. The Advanced Heart Failure Clinic at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota is a facility devoted specifically to surgical advanced heart failure treatment.
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., is ranked among the Best Hospitals for heart and heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report. Mayo Clinic also ranks among the Best Children's Hospitals for heart and heart surgery.
Read more about congestive heart failure at www.MayoClinic.com.
Related book: Mayo Clinic Healthy Heart for Life! book provides an easy-to-follow plan to prevent and conquer heart disease.
My name is Bill Kalmer, and I have been a patient for the past 24 years at Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My medical problems have been primarily cardiac in nature. I have had an AICD (automatic implanted cardiac ...
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