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How might the heart 'fail'?
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How might the heart 'fail'?

Most often heart failure is caused by another medical condition that damages the heart. In this video, Dr. Sunthar describes the different ways the heart can fail to work

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The heart can fail by failing to pump blood around the rest of the body as well as it should do. And that can happen if the whole of the heart muscle becomes weak, or even if a part of the heart muscle becomes weak, or if the valves stop working as well as they should do. There are lots of different causes for heart failure.

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