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Understanding heart failureLiving with heart failure

Introduction
What is heart failure?
How does the normal heart work?
How does the normal heart work? Part 2
What goes wrong in heart failure?
How does your heart and body adapt in heart failure
What are the different types of heart failure?
Symptoms of heart failure
Shortness of breath
Coughing/wheezing
Weight gain
Swollen ankles
Tiredness/fatigue
Dizziness
Rapid heart rate
Loss of appetite
Need to urinate at night
Depression and anxiety
What causes heart failure?
Past heart attacks
Coronary artery disease
High blood pressure
Heart valve disease
Heart muscle disease or inflammation
Congenital heart defects
Lung conditions
Diabetes
Alcohol/drug abuse
Anaemia
Overactive thyroid
Abnormal heart rhythm
Infection
Kidney disease/poor kidney function
Common tests for heart failure
Medical history and physical examination
Blood tests
ECG
Chest x-ray
Echocardiogram
Lung function tests
Exercise testing
Cardiac MRI
Cardiac catheterisation and angiography
Nuclear medicine techniques
Multi-slice computer tomography (MSCT)
How can heart failure change over time?
Myths and facts about heart failure
Test your knowledge

What can your doctor do?

What can you do?

Family and caregiver information

Warning signs

Patient experience

Questions to ask your doctor

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

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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