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Heart Failure

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A heterogeneous condition in which the heart is unable to pump out sufficient blood to meet the metabolic need of the body. Heart failure can be caused by structural defects, functional abnormalities ( VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION), or a sudden overload beyond its capacity. Chronic heart failure is more common than acute heart failure which results from sudden insult to cardiac function, such as MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION.,Created For = LHSA-Dott,Use For = Cardiac Decomposition

Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

PR4.2459, 1948-1965

 Item
Identifier: LHB41 CC/4/PR4.2459
Scope and Contents Case summaries, charts, reports, health visitor reports and correspondence relating to female patient from south Edinburgh aged 56 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: headache, pleural effusion and cardiac failure. No family history of tuberculosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient...
Dates: 1948-1965

PR4.2513, 1952-1958

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Identifier: LHB41 CC/4/PR4.2513
Scope and Contents

Case summaries, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from north Edinburgh and Leith aged 82 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: cough with sputum, cardiac failure and pulmonary tuberculosis. No family history of tuberculosis. Nonsurgical treatment given.

Dates: 1952-1958

PR4.2577, 1958-1976

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Identifier: LHB41 CC/4/PR4.2577
Scope and Contents

Case summaries, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from south west Edinburgh aged 68 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: cardiac failure and diabetes mellitus. No family history of tuberculosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died.

Dates: 1958-1976

PR4.2579, 1956-1976

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Identifier: LHB41 CC/4/PR4.2579
Scope and Contents Case summaries, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female housewife from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: fibrosis, cardiac failure and steatorrheoa....
Dates: 1956-1976

PR4.2580, 1958-1959

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Identifier: LHB41 CC/4/PR4.2580
Scope and Contents

Case summaries, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Lothian (Scotland) aged 70 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: bronchitis, emphysema and heart failure. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1958-1959

PR4.2584, 1958-1959

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Identifier: LHB41 CC/4/PR4.2584
Scope and Contents Case summaries, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female housewife from east Edinburgh aged 69 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: heart failure and artery embolism. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient...
Dates: 1958-1959

PR4.2607, 1958-1959

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Identifier: LHB41 CC/4/PR4.2607
Scope and Contents

Case summaries, charts, reports and correpondence relating to female patient from east Edinburgh aged 64 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: bronchopneumonia, cardiac failure and cough with sputum. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1958-1959

PR4.2611, 1959-1974

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Identifier: LHB41 CC/4/PR4.2611
Scope and Contents

Case summaries, photographs, charts, reports and correpondence relating to male patient from east Edinburgh aged 61 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: cardiac failure, bronchopneumonia and dyspnoea. No family history of tuberculosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1959-1974

PR2.10386, 1951

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10386
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart, reports and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 42 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: failure of vision; hypertension; cardiac failure; and papilloedema. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951

PR2.11441, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11441
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; hypertension; vertigo; and early myocardical failure. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952