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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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Useful tools

Click to print these tools to help you monitor your heart failure

Patient and caregivers videos

Living with an LVAD

Living with an LVAD

Patient in exercise training

Patient in exercise training

Patient with an ICD

Patient with an ICD

An LVAD as a bridge to transplantation

An LVAD as a bridge to transplantation

Adjusting lifestyle and staying optimistic

Adjusting lifestyle and staying optimistic

Living with heart failure devices

Living with heart failure devices

Challenges in making the diagnosis

Challenges in making the diagnosis

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