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AN ANIMATED JOURNEY THROUGH HEART FAILURE

How the normal heart works

What goes wrong in heart failure

How the heart and body compensate in heart failure

How heart failure causes fluid accumulation

How a heart attack can cause heart failure

How abnormal heart valves can cause heart failure

How vasodilators work in heart failure

How diuretics work in heart failure

How medical devices work in heart failure

These narrated animations explain how a healthy heart works, what happens to it in heart failure and how various treatments work to improve your health

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Patient and caregivers videos

Accepting death

An LVAD as a bridge to transplantation

Copy of Patient in exercise training

Coughing worse when lying down

Feels he can contact his heart failure nurse at any time

Felt bloated after eating small amounts of food

Felt breathless and could feel fluid in her lungs

Her consultant thinks her heart failure was caused by a viral infection

How he remembers to take his medicines

How she manages her diuretic medicine

Living with an LVAD

Patient in exercise training

Patient should not be too passive

Patient with an ICD

Rests regularly to deal with his tiredness

Seeing other bypass patients exercising made him feel more positive

She felt tired and everything required a lot of effort

She felt wonderful after her mitral valve was replaced

The term 'heart failure' was too general for him to grasp

Took a few months to recover from a setback

What can make his palpitations worse

What it was like to have an angiogram

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