Welcome to heartfailurematters.org, the patient website of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology.
The animation below shows what happens to your heart when you have heart failure. Your heart has difficulty to pump the blood around your body, often because it has been damaged by a medical condition.
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