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العربيةDrinking an excess of alcohol or taking recreational drugs has a toxic effect on the heart, increasing your risk of developing heart failure.
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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
A series of 9 simple, captivating animations explaining heart failure and its treatment.
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
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
In this section you can watch, listen or read interviews with other people with heart failure and their caregivers.
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