Basic Heart Failure Facts

Heart Failure (also called HF, Congestive Heart Failure or CHF) is a “syndrome”: a group of symptoms and physical problems that may result from coronary artery disease, hypertension, inflammatory processes and many other problems.

What Do We Need to Learn About Heart Failure?

To better care for patients with heart failure, we need to understand better several important issues.

Palliative and Supportive Care for Heart Failure

In two consensus conferences on Palliative and Supportive Care in Advanced Heart Failure, we developed a model of care for patients with heart failure.

Heart Failure References

Here are some useful articles and resources about heart failure. Note that they are technical and may not be easily understood unless you have some medical background.

Heart Failure Web Resources

There are many web sites pertaining to heart failure. Here are a number that we think have particular merit.