Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
heart failure
English answer:
1. cardiac insufficiency. 2. (erroneously) cardiac arrest
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Nick Lingris
Aug 15, 2005 13:22
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heart failure/cardiac insufficiency
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Hello everyone
I'm trying to understand whether these two terms can be used interchangeably or (as I suspect) whether they are distinct medical phenomena. In some languages e.g. Italian, cognates seems to be used (insufficienza cardiaca) to cover both.
Is there anyone with enough expertise to answer this question?
I'm trying to understand whether these two terms can be used interchangeably or (as I suspect) whether they are distinct medical phenomena. In some languages e.g. Italian, cognates seems to be used (insufficienza cardiaca) to cover both.
Is there anyone with enough expertise to answer this question?
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| 4 +8 | To doctors it might be the same thing |
Nick Lingris
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| 3 +4 | The same |
Johan Venter
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| 5 | Not the same at all |
David Moore (X)
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Nick Lingris
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To doctors it might be the same thing
Congestive heart failure
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
(Redirected from Heart failure)
Congestive heart failure (CHF) (also called congestive cardiac failure and heart failure) is the inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, or requiring elevated filling pressures in order to pump effectively.
The term heart failure is frequently misused, especially when given as cause of death: it is not synonymous with "cessation of heartbeat".
There are many different ways to categorize heart failure, including the side of the heart involved (left heart failure vs. right heart failure) or whether the abnormality is due to contraction or relaxation of the heart (systolic heart failure vs. diastolic heart failure).
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_failure]
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In the English-French Robert:
heart failure: insuffisance cardiaque. (*cardiac arrest*) arrêt
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
(Redirected from Heart failure)
Congestive heart failure (CHF) (also called congestive cardiac failure and heart failure) is the inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, or requiring elevated filling pressures in order to pump effectively.
The term heart failure is frequently misused, especially when given as cause of death: it is not synonymous with "cessation of heartbeat".
There are many different ways to categorize heart failure, including the side of the heart involved (left heart failure vs. right heart failure) or whether the abnormality is due to contraction or relaxation of the heart (systolic heart failure vs. diastolic heart failure).
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_failure]
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In the English-French Robert:
heart failure: insuffisance cardiaque. (*cardiac arrest*) arrêt
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Not the same at all
I have suffered from "cardiac insufficiency", so my doctor told me. I may be no medical man, but, had I suffered heart failure, I wouldn't be alive now.
Heart failure may often be caused by cardiac insufficiency, but I certainly wouldn't use the terms interchangeably!
Heart failure may often be caused by cardiac insufficiency, but I certainly wouldn't use the terms interchangeably!
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Angela Dickson (X)
: Heart failure is progressive and, to an extent, correctible - many people suffer heart failure and don't die.
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The same
This is taken from a medical dictionary:
Cardiac insufficiency: Another name for Heart failure (or close medical condition association).
Heart failure: Heart failure describes when the heart is having difficulty completing its work. The term is not the same as heart attack or cardiac arrest, when the heart may stop; heart failure involves a gradual failing of the heart.
Cardiac insufficiency: Another name for Heart failure (or close medical condition association).
Heart failure: Heart failure describes when the heart is having difficulty completing its work. The term is not the same as heart attack or cardiac arrest, when the heart may stop; heart failure involves a gradual failing of the heart.
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Nick Lingris
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