Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) – What Can Put You At Risk? | Dr. Siddhant Jain - Heart Specialist Indore
Dr. Siddhant Jain - Our existence is completely dependent on the work of the heart. Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a chronic progressive condition that affects the pumping power of your heart muscle, CHF develops when your ventricles can't pump enough blood through the body. Our survival is solely reliant on the working of the heart. It is this that makes the prospect of a heart failure so fatal and so terrifying. Notwithstanding what the heart evokes, a heart failure is not indicative of a defunct heart; but only a situation when the heart pumps weaker than what is generally deemed as natural. Consequently, the blood flows at a slower rate to the heart and the body that in turn increases pressure in the heart. The oxygen that is produced by the heart in such a scenario is scanty and insufficient for the body. Body responds with its own defense mechanism, as the heart, in an attempt to hold more blood, stretches its chambers. Though this strenuous effort may keep the blood mo...