congestive heart failure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcongestive,heartandfailure
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congestive
adjective
uk/kənˈdʒəst.ɪv/us/kənˈdʒəs.tɪv/
involving or producing too much blood or other liquid in ...
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heart
noun
uk/hɑːt/us/hɑːrt/
the organ in your chest that sends the blood around ...
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failure
noun
uk/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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One hadcongestiveheartfailure.
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Among those with carditis, six did not havecongestiveheartfailure and 14 hadcongestiveheartfailure.
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Six infants presented withcongestiveheartfailure.
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Supporting hope incongestiveheartfailure patients.
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The patient developedcongestiveheartfailure 4 weeks later.
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There was no evidence ofcongestiveheartfailure.
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There were no symptoms ofcongestiveheartfailure.
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Our second patient, however, hadcongestiveheartfailure.
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All of them presented withcongestiveheartfailure.
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Effects ofenalapril on mortality in severecongestiveheartfailure.
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Clinical indications for permanent cardiac pacing were: 1) elective, 2) syncope, 3)congestiveheartfailure.
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Pulmonary changes were at the time attributed tocongestiveheartfailure.
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At the age of 17 years, he was admitted forcongestiveheartfailure and ventricular arrhythmia.
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The patient has responded with the resolution ofcongestiveheartfailure symptoms.
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The second case is a one-month-old male infant who presented withcongestiveheartfailure.
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He had presented within the first week of life withcongestiveheartfailure.
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Treatment ofcongestiveheartfailure by altering loading conditions of the heart.
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The latter group was further divided according to the presence or absence ofcongestiveheartfailure.
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She was given digoxin for management ofcongestiveheartfailure and referred for surgery.
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Living and dying with congestive failure: addressing the needs of oldercongestiveheartfailure patients.
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Patient characteristics associated with care by a cardiologist among adults hospitalized with severecongestiveheartfailure.
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Six of the 10 patients undergoing drug treatment alone died ofcongestiveheartfailure.
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This had caused compression of the other cardiac chambers resulting incongestiveheartfailure.
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Patients with comorbidity such as lung cancer orcongestiveheartfailure were excluded.
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