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<br>Nearly 5 million Americans are living with congestive heart failure, according to the American College of Cardiology, and the American Heart Association estimates 670,000 people are diagnosed with a type of heart failure -- left-sided heart failure, right-sided heart failure or coronary heart failure -- every year. Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a debilitating and progressive condition where the heart is failing -- unable to get enough blood to the body's organs. As we probably remember from basic anatomy class, the heart muscle is a pump. The right side pumps blood from the veins into the lungs |
