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US
/kənˈdʒɛstɪv/
]
[ UK /kəndʒˈɛstɪv/ ]
[ UK /kəndʒˈɛstɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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relating to or affected by an abnormal collection of blood or other fluid
congestive heart disease
How To Use congestive In A Sentence
- Zenuk C, Healey J, Donnelly J, et al. Thiamine deficiency in congestive heart failure patients receiving long term furosemide therapy. Hyla Cass, M.D.: Is Your Medication Robbing You of Nutrients Part 2: Getting Specific
- Three more common conditions associated with altered autonomic function include neurogenic essential hypertension, psychogenic ischemic heart disease, and congestive heart failure.
- Ever since Goody, our twelve-year-old bichon frise, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, I have been compelled by pity and fear to do his bidding. Knowing Jesse
- All 6 of these patients presented with shortness of breath and clinical signs of congestive heart failure, and their autopsies showed right ventricle hypertrophy and tricuspid ring dilatation.
- CCAM can cause a myriad of life-threatening problems for the baby, including fetal hydrops, an accumulation of fluid surrounding internal organs caused by congestive heart failure. CCAM — Ryan
- In the study addressed yesterday, Vytorin was tested against a placebo in patients with a condition known as aortic stenosis, a calcification of the heart valve that is increasingly common among elderly patients and leads to congestive heart failure and death. More Vytorin Bad News
- Background: Cardiac resynchronization therapy improves exercise tolerance and survival in with advanced congestive HF and dyssynchrony.
- Since we had no unexposed group, we were unable to estimate whether, and by how much, it increases the risk of recurrent congestive heart failure.
- Deficiencies have been linked to various heart conditions, including angina, congestive heart disease and mitral valve prolapse.
- Just this February, Dr. Fry and his colleagues filed a patent for a molecule found in the venom of the inland taipan that may help treat congestive heart failure.