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Left sided heart failure
Left-sided heart failure describes any condition where the left side of the heart fails to adequately pump blood out to the body. This can cause a backing up of blood into the lungs and the right side of the heart.
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A 41-year old asked:
Right v left-sided heart failure?
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A 34-year old asked:
What are the tests for left-sided heart failure?
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A 42-year old asked:
What are the symptoms of left sided heart failure?
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A 44-year old asked:
What are the factors that affect the severity of left sided heart failure?
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A 41-year old asked:
What is left-sided heart failure from?
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A 48-year old asked:
How to tell if it's right or left sided heart failure?
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A 40-year old asked:
What are the typical symptoms of left sided heart failure?
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A member asked:
is it possible to get pedal edema from left side heart failure?
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A 36-year old asked:
Why does only left-sided heart failure cause pulmonary edema?
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A 39-year old asked:
What are the signs and symptoms of left sided heart failure associated with decreased cardiac output?
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A 34-year old asked:
What are the signs and symptoms of left sided heart failure associated with pulmonary congestion?
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A 20-year old female asked:
What website where we could find journal about left sided congestive heart failure?
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A 39-year old asked:
Is heart failure on the left and right side different from each other?
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A 36-year old asked:
How are the symptoms of right sided heart failure different from left heart?
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A 35-year old asked:
What does the left side of my heart do?
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A 29-year old female asked:
Pain on left side close to heart area. what can it be?
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A 44-year old male asked:
Every time I sneeze I feel pain by the lower left side by the heart?
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A 38-year old asked:
What to do if I keep having sharp chest pain on my left side near my heart what could it be?
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A 23-year old female asked:
continuously getting sharp shootings pains in my chest. the left side.I'm 23 its really scaring me incase it's a heart attack plz help?
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A member asked:
I have a pinching feeling that happens in my left side of my chest, comes out of nowhere then fades. 23 year old male. Could it be a heart attack?
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A 39-year old male asked:
3 cardioligst they all clear me of my heart did many tests is all good but i still have left side chest pain and shold and ribs sore if I stretch ?
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A 40-year old male asked:
Please need some help Chest pain left side but they tell me is not heart related in pain round the clock my doctor don't seems too care much
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A 54-year old female asked:
I am having sufficient amount of pain in the left side of my neck and shoulder. Are these signs of an impending heart atack? I am not having chest pai
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A 23-year old female asked:
The left side of my chest hurts sometimes I feel like I could pass out my heart feels like it skips and goes fast I lose breath and I feel like puking?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Sharp pain in the left side of my chest (heart area) that comes and goes,since yesterday.No known health problems-unbelievably stressful living situat?
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A member asked:
Blow to the chest My son ( 13 years old ) got hit by a ball in the left side of his chest, almost in the heart area. He only had a sharp pain in the heart area for a few seconds when it happened, and two days later It still hurts him to breath, to talk, a
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A 36-year old male asked:
What can cause left side of the heart to be swollen?
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A 35-year old male asked:
Heart left side pain!
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A 34-year old asked:
Could sleeping on your left side cause heart pain to intensify?
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A 30-year old asked:
Why would my brother have his heart on the right side of his chest instead of left?
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