Preferred Name | Congestive heart failure | |
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Cardiac failure Chronic heart failure Cardiac failures Heart failure Cardiac insufficiency CHF |
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Definitions |
The presence of an abnormality of cardiac function that is responsible for the failure of the heart to pump blood at a rate that is commensurate with the needs of the tissues or a state in which abnormally elevated filling pressures are required for the heart to do so. Heart failure is frequently related to a defect in myocardial contraction. |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0001635 |
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alternative label |
Cardiac failure Chronic heart failure Cardiac failures Heart failure Cardiac insufficiency CHF |
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definition |
The presence of an abnormality of cardiac function that is responsible for the failure of the heart to pump blood at a rate that is commensurate with the needs of the tissues or a state in which abnormally elevated filling pressures are required for the heart to do so. Heart failure is frequently related to a defect in myocardial contraction. |
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Congestive heart failure |
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prefixIRI |
HP:0001635 |
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prefLabel |
Congestive heart failure |
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