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- ACE (Angiotensin converting enzyme) inhibitors
- Aldosterone receptor antagonists or mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRAs)
- Angiography
- Angiotensin Receptor-Neprilysin Inhibitor (ARNi) – Sacubitril/Valsartan
- Antiarrhythmics
- Anticoagulants and new oral anticoagulants
- Antiplatelet treatment
- ARBs (Angiotensin II receptor blockers)
- Beta blockers
- Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT)
- Catheter ablation of arrhythmias in heart failure
- Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)
- Digitalis
- Diuretics
- Heart Transplantation
- Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICDs)
- Iron therapy in patients with heart failure and iron deficiency
- Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD)
- Medicine chart
- Medicines for acute heart failure
- Nitrates / Vasodilators
- Pacemakers
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
- Questions to ask your doctor, pharmacist or nurse about your medicines
- sGC stimulators
- SGLT2 (Sodium Glucose Cotransporter 2) inhibitors
- Sinus node inhibitors
- Statins
- Stenting
- The importance of taking your medicines
- Valve surgery
- What about alternative or natural remedies?
- Introduction
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- Telemonitoring / Remote Patient Monitoring / Telemetry
- Heart failure medicines
- Implantable devices
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- Questions to ask your doctor or nurse
- Getting involved in clinical trials
- Heart failure causes and other common medical conditions
- Taking your own blood pressure and heart rate (pulse)
- Common heart conditions
- Coronary artery disease
- Past heart attacks
- High blood pressure
- Valvular Heart Disease and Heart Failure
- Abnormal heart rhythm / Atrial fibrillation
- Heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy and inflammation)
- Adult congenital heart disease
- Other common medical conditions and heart failure
- Diabetes
- Lung Disease
- Chronic kidney disease
- Anaemia
- Iron deficiency
- Elevated Potassium levels (Hyperkalaemia)
- Cancer therapy and heart failure
- Infection
- Abnormal thyroid function
- Obesity, anorexia
- Central sleep apnoea
- Gout
- Alcohol/drug abuse
- Depression and anxiety
- Understanding heart failure
- Blood tests
- Cardiac catheterisation and angiography
- Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Chest x-ray
- Coughing or wheezing
- Depression and anxiety
- Dizziness
- Echocardiogram
- Electrocardiogram (ECG)
- Exercise testing
- How do your heart and body adapt in heart failure?
- How does the normal heart work? Part 2
- How heart failure is graded
- Loss of appetite
- Lung function tests
- Medical history and physical examination
- Multi-slice computer tomography (MSCT)
- Need to urinate at night
- Nuclear medicine techniques
- Rapid heart rate
- Shortness of breath
- Swollen ankles
- Tiredness/fatigue
- Weight gain
- Women and heart failure
- Introduction
- What is heart failure?
- Symptoms of heart failure
- How does the normal heart work?
- What are the different types of heart failure?
- Common tests for heart failure
- What is Ejection Fraction? (HFrEF and HFpEF)
- What goes wrong in heart failure?
- How can heart failure change over time?
- Tools used to assess quality of life
- Heart failure in young people
- Myths and facts about heart failure
- What causes heart failure?
