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Heart failure — Classification and external resources The major signs and symptoms of heart failure. ICD 10 I5 … Wikipedia
Diastolic heart failure — Diastolic dysfunction Classification and external resources ICD 9 428.3 Diastolic heart failure or diastolic dysfunction refers to decline in performance of one or both ventricles of the heart during the time phase of diastole. Diastole is that… … Wikipedia
failure — The state of insufficiency or nonperformance. backward heart f. a concept (formerly considered mutually exclusive with forward heart f.) that maintains that the phenomena of congestive heart f. result from passive engorgement of the veins caused… … Medical dictionary
Heart sounds — Front of thorax, showing surface relations of bones, lungs (purple), pleura (blue), and heart (red outline). The location of best auscultation for each heart valve are labeled with M , T , A , and P . First heart sound: caused by atrioventricular … Wikipedia
heart — A hollow muscular organ that receives the blood from the veins and propels it into the arteries. In mammals it is divided by a musculomembranous septum into two halves right or venous and left or arterial each of which consists of a receiving… … Medical dictionary
Cardiac output — (Q or or CO ) is the volume of blood being pumped by the heart, in particular by a left or right ventricle in the time interval of one minute. CO may be measured in many ways, for example dm3/min (1 dm3 equals 1000 cm3 or 1 litre). Q is… … Wikipedia
Artificial heart valve — An artificial heart valve is a device implanted in the heart of a patient with heart valvular disease. When one of the four heart valves malfunctions, the medical choice may be to replace the natural valve with an artificial valve. This requires… … Wikipedia
Renal failure — Classification and external resources ICD 10 N17 N19 ICD 9 … Wikipedia
kidney failure — or renal failure Partial or complete loss of kidney function. Acute failure causes reduced urine output and blood chemical imbalance, including uremia. Most patients recover within six weeks. Damage to various kidney structures can result from… … Universalium
Cardiomyopathy — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = Opened left ventricle of heart shows a thickened, dilated left ventricle with subendocardial fibrosis manifested as increased whiteness of endocardium. Autopsy. DiseasesDB = 2137 ICD10 = ICD10|I|42|0|i|30 … Wikipedia
