Heart Failure

Overview

MUHC Patient Education Office

• Living Well With Heart Failure

American Heart Association

• What is Heart Failure?
• Heart Failure
• Heart Failure Questions to Ask Your Doctor
• Heart Failure Tools and Resources

Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke

• Congestive Heart Failure (Video)

Cleveland Clinic (United States)

• Understanding Heart Failure
• Heart Failure: Diagnosis

HealthLink BC

• Heart Failure
• Heart Failure Symptoms
• Heart Failure: Less Common Symptoms
• Heart Failure Types
• Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (Diastolic Heart Failure)
• Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (Systolic Heart Failure
• Heart Failure Stages
• Classification of Heart Failure

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

• Heart Failure
• Understanding Heart Failure — The Basics
• Heart Failure Zones

Jewish General Hospital of Montreal

• Understand Heart Failure

Lab Tests Online (United States)

• Congestive Heart Failure

Mayo Clinic (United States)

• Heart Failure

Merck Manual — Consumer Version (United States)

• Heart Failure

Montreal Heart Institute

• Heart Failure

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (United States)

• Heart Failure

Patient.info (United Kingdom)

• Congestive Heart Failure

University of Ottawa Heart Institute

• Heart Failure
• Heart Failure Patient Guide

UpToDate for Patients

• Heart Failure (The Basics) (Available upon request)
• Heart Failure (Beyond the Basics)
• Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (The Basics) (Available upon request)
• Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (The Basics) (Available upon request)

Treatment & Living With

American Heart Association

• How Can I Live with Heart Failure?
• Living with Heart Failure and Managing Advanced HF
• Treatment Options for Heart Failure

British Heart Foundation

• Living with Heart Failure
• An Everyday Guide to Living with Heart Failure

Cleveland Clinic (United States)

• Heart Failure Diet: Low Sodium
• Heart Failure: Exercise
• Heart Failure: Monitoring Your Weight & Fluid Intake
• Heart Failure and Sexual Relationships
• Living with Heart Failure

HealthLink BC

• Enjoying Life When You Have Heart Failure
• Heart Failure and Sexual Activity
• Heart Failure: Activity and Exercise
• Heart Failure: Avoiding Triggers for Sudden Heart Failure
• Heart Failure: Checking Your Weight
• Heart Failure: Compensation by the Heart and Body
• Heart Failure Complications
• Heart Failure Daily Action Plan
• Heart Failure: Eating a Healthy Diet
• Heart Failure: Tips for Caregivers
• Heart Failure: Watching Your Fluids
• Heart Failure: Taking Medicines Properly
• Medicines to Prevent Abnormal Heart Rhythm in Heart Failure
• Monitoring and Medicines for Heart Failure
• Pacemaker for Heart Failure (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)
• Heart Failure: Should I Get a Pacemaker (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)?
• Heart Failure: Should I Get an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)?
• Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) for Heart Failure

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

• Living with Heart Failure: Resources to Help You Manage Your Heart Failure

UpToDate for Patients

• Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (The Basics) (Available upon request)
• Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation (The Basics) (Available upon request)
• Medicines for Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (The Basics) (Available upon request)
• When Your Lungs Fill with Fluid (The Basics) (Available upon request)

Related Topics

• Adult Congenital Heart Disease
• Cholesterol
• Heart (General Information)
• Heart Attack
• Heart Disease
• Heart Valve Disease
• Heart Surgery
• High Blood Pressure
• Smoking Cessation

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