congestive heart failure
noun
: heart failure in which the heart is unable to maintain an adequate circulation of blood in the bodily tissues or to pump out the venous blood returned to it by the veins
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Wrestler Andre the Giant, who died of congestive heart failure at 46, also had the condition, which causes cardiac complications.
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Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2025
Gómez Quiñones died of congestive heart failure in 2020 at his home in Pacific Palisades.
—Russell Contreras, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
Several heart disorders also increase stroke risk, including coronary artery disease, as well as heart valve defects, atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure.
—Katia Hetter, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and illustrator of The Phantom Tollbooth, has died at his home in Richfield Springs, New York, from congestive heart failure.
—Shyla Watson, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
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Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2025
Gómez Quiñones died of congestive heart failure in 2020 at his home in Pacific Palisades.
—Russell Contreras, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
Several heart disorders also increase stroke risk, including coronary artery disease, as well as heart valve defects, atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure.
—Katia Hetter, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and illustrator of The Phantom Tollbooth, has died at his home in Richfield Springs, New York, from congestive heart failure.
—Shyla Watson, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Congestive heart failure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/congestive%20heart%20failure. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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