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unusual facts about congestive heart failure



Dinah Craik

At Shortlands, near Bromley, Kent, while in a period of preparation for Dorothy's wedding, she died of heart failure on 12 October 1887, aged 61.

Gitoformate

Gitoformate (INN, or pentaformylgitoxin, trade name Dynocard) is a cardiac glycoside, a type of drug that can be used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat).

Magnesium in biology

Magnesium orotate may be used as adjuvant therapy in patients on optimal treatment for severe congestive heart failure, increasing survival rate and improving clinical symptoms and patient's quality of life.

Samuel Dash

Dash died in Washington, D.C., of congestive heart failure, aged 79, on the same day as Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal.

Special needs plan

Beneficiaries with chronic conditions, defined as individuals who have acquired one or more disabling chronic conditions, including, but not limited to: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, congestive heart failure, osteoarthritis, mental disorders, ESRD, and HIV/AIDS.


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Andy Granatelli

Granatelli died from congestive heart failure, aged 90, in Santa Barbara, California.

C24H26N2O4

Carvedilol, a non-selective beta blocker/alpha-1 blocker indicated in the treatment of mild to moderate congestive heart failure

Roger Wolcott Hall

Roger Wolcott Hall (May 20, 1919, Baltimore, Maryland - 20 July 2008, Windsor Hills, DE; congestive heart failure) was an American Army officer and spy in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and the author of a humorous memoir of his experiences in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), entitled You’re Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger (1957).

Vagus nerve stimulation

The discovery by Kevin J. Tracey that vagus nerve stimulation inhibits inflammation by suppressing pro-inflammatory cytokine production has led to significant interest in the potential to use this approach for treating inflammatory diseases ranging from arthritis to colitis, ischemia, myocardial infaction, and congestive heart failure.