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Angina Pectoris
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Breast pang; spasm of the chest.
[Hoblyn1855]
A disease attended by acute pain, sense of
suffocation, and syncope. [Thomas1875]
Chest pain that is typically severe and crushing with a feeling
just behind the breastbone (the sternum) of pressure and suffocation,
due to an inadequate supply of oxygen to the heart muscle. The term
"angina pectoris" comes from the Latin "angere" meaning "to choke
or throttle" + "pectus" meaning "chest". Angina pectoris was first
described by the English physician William Heberden (1710-1801)
and may be referred to simply as angina. [Medicinenet].
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Example from an 1828 death certificate
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Example from a 1940 Death
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Apoplectic
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Relating
to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy;
as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom,
fit, or stroke. [Webster]
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Apoplectic Stroke
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Cerebral Apoplexy
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Apoplexy
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A disease produced by congestion or rupture of the vessels
of the brain, and causing a sudden arrest of sense and
motion, the person lying as if asleep, respiration and the
heart's action continuing. [Thomas1875]
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- Sudden impairment
of neurological function, especially from a cerebral hemorrhage;
a stroke. An effusion of blood into a tissue or organ.
Archaic term for cerebral stroke [Heritage]
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The word "apoplexy" comes from the Greek "apoplexia" meaning
a seizure, in the sense of being struck down. In Greek "plexe"
is "a stroke." The ancients believed that someone suffering
a stroke (or any sudden incapacity) had been struck down by
the gods. [Medicinenet]
"apoplexy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime
before 1380. [Webster]
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Example
from a 1909 New York State
Death Certificate:
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Example
from a 1945 Kentucky Death
Certificate:
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Aortic Stenosis
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Abnormal narrowing of
the aorta, esp. of its orifice, usually as a result of rheumatic
fever or embryologic anomalies. [Dictionary.com].
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Example from a 1919 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Arteriosclerosis
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Induration of the
walls of an artery, or of the arteries, especially in the
musculoelastic coat. [Appleton1904].
A chronic disease in which thickening, hardening, and loss of elasticity
of the arterial walls result in impaired blood circulation. It develops
with aging, and in hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and other
conditions. [Heritage].
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Example from a 1925 Death
Certificate from Louisiana:
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Atherosclerosis
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A form of arteriosclerosis characterized by
the deposition of atheromatous plaques containing cholesterol and
lipids on the innermost layer of the walls of large and medium-sized
arteries. [Heritage].
Atheroma: A disease characterized by thickening
and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries. [Webster]
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Atrial Fibrillation
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Fibrillation of the
muscles of the atria of the heart. [Wordnet]. |
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Auricular
Fibrillation
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Atrial Fibrillation. |
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Example from a 1922 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Blue Baby
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A popular term for a child born with cyanosis. [Appleton1904].
An infant born with cyanosis as a result of a congenital cardiac
or pulmonary defect that causes inadequate oxygenation of the blood.
[Heritage].
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Example from a 1921 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Cardiac Asthma
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The term "cardiac
asthma" refers to wheezing associated with congestive heart
failure. It isn't true asthma. As a result of congestive heart
failure, fluid can build up in the lungs (pulmonary edema). This
causes signs and symptoms — such as shortness of breath,
coughing and wheezing — that may mimic asthma. True asthma is a
chronic condition caused by inflammation of the airways, which
can lead to breathing difficulties. [MayoClinic.com].
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Cardiac Dropsy
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Dropsy, dependent on disease of the heart.
[Dunglison1868]
Œdema due to heart failure. [CancerWEB] |
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Cardiac Insufficiency
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Inadequate blood flow to the heart muscles; can cause angina pectoris
(syn: coronary insufficiency) [Wordnet].
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Example from a 1922 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Cardiagra
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Gout or pain of the heart. [Dunglison1868]
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Cardioptosis
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A condition in which the heart is unduly movable and displaced downward.
[CancerWEB]
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Carditis
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Inflammation of the heart, especially of its muscular tissue.
[Appleton1904].
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Cerebral Apoplexy
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Stroke syndrome affecting the cerebrum. [Dorland].
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Example from a 1922 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Congestion of the Heart
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Congestive Heart Failure
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Congestive Heart Failure
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Inability to pump enough blood to avoid congestion in the tissues.
[Wordnet]
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Cyanopathy
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A disease in which the surface of the body is colored blue. It is
often symptomatic, and commonly depends on a direct communication
remaining between the cavities of the right and left side of the
heart. [Dunglison1868]
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Cyanosis
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A blue color of the skin, resulting from congenital malformation
of the heart, by which venous and arterial blood are mixed so as
to be not wholly oxygenated; the morbus cœruleus. [Thomas1875]
A bluish color of the skin and the mucous membranes due to insufficient
oxygen in the blood. For example, the lips may show cyanosis. Cyanosis
can be evident at birth, as in a "blue baby" who has a heart malformation
that permits blood that is not fully oxygenated to enter the arterial
circulation. Cyanosis can also appear at any time later in life.
The
word "cyanosis" comes from the Greek "cyanos" meaning dark blue.
[Medicinenet]
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Example from an 1893 death certificate
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Disease of the valves
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Endocarditis, valvulitis.
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Example
from an 1871 Death Register in New Zealand:
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Drop Heart
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Cardioptosis
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Dropsy of the Heart
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Hydropericardium. [Appleton1904].
Oedema due to heart failure; Congestive Heart Failure. [CancerWEB].
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Example from a 1915 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Dropsy of the Pericardium
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Hydropericardium.
[Dunglison1846]
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Endocarditis
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Inflammation of the endocardium and heart valves. [Wordnet].
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Example from a 1921 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Hardening of
Arteries
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The condition of arteriosclerosis.
[American Heritage].
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Heart Attack
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A heart attack (also known as a myocardial infarction) is the death
of heart muscle from the sudden blockage of a coronary artery by
a blood clot. Coronary arteries are blood vessels that supply the
heart muscle with blood and oxygen. Blockage of a coronary artery
deprives the heart muscle of blood and oxygen, causing injury to
the heart muscle. Injury to the heart muscle causes chest pain and
pressure. If blood flow is not restored within 20 to 40 minutes,
irreversible death of the heart muscle will begin to occur. Muscle
continues to die for 6-8 hours at which time the heart attack usually
is "complete." The dead heart muscle is replaced by scar tissue.
[Medicinenet]
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Heart Disease
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A structural or functional abnormality of the heart, or of the blood
vessels supplying the heart, that impairs its normal functioning.
[Heritage].
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Example from a 1922 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Heart Failure
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A condition where there is ineffective pumping of the heart leading
to an accumulation of fluid in the lungs. Typical symptoms include
shortness of breath with exertion, difficulty breathing when lying
flat and leg or ankle swelling. Causes include chronic hypertension,
cardiomyopathy and myocardial infarction. [CancerWEB].
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Example from a 1922 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Heart Spasm
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Angina Pectoris
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Hydropericardium
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The noninflammatory accumulation of watery
fluid in the pericardial cavity. [American Heritage]. |
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Example from a 1919 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Infarction
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An area of tissue that undergoes necrosis as a result of obstruction
of local blood supply, as by a thrombus or embolus; Emphraxis. [Heritage]
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Inflammation of the Heart
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Carditis
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Mitral Murmur
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A murmur produced at the mitral valve. It
can be either obstructive or regurgitant. [American Heritage]. |
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Example from a 1922 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Mitral
Regurgitation
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Regurgitation of the
blood current through the mitral orifice, due to valvular
incompetence. [Appleton1904].
Backward flow of
blood into the atrium due to mitral insufficiency.
[Merriam-Webster].
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Example from an 1892 Death
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Example from a 1919 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Mitral Stenosis
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A narrowing of the mitral valve, usually caused by rheumatic fever,
resulting in an obstruction to the flow of blood from the left atrium
to the left ventricle. [Heritage]
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Myocardial Infarction
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Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood
supply to the heart muscle; Heart Attack. [Webster].
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Example from a 1979 Death
Certificate from Canada:
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Myocarditis
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Carditis. [Dunglison1855].
Inflammation of the myocardium (the muscular tissue of the heart).
[Wordnet].
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Example from a 1922 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Neuralgia of the Heart
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Angina Pectoris
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Organic Heart Disease
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When a person's heart
does not act as it should, he is said to have functional heart
disease; when the heart is inflamed or deformed, it is called
organic heart disease. Organic heart disease may consist of
inflammation of the heart with the formation of scars which
deform the valves, just as a burn on the face causes a deformity
of the face; or, it may consist of hardening of the muscles of
the heart so that they can not do their work properly; or, the
muscular tissue of the heart may become softened and stretched.
All these affections are called organic diseases of the heart.
Enlargement of the heart is also an organic form of heart
disease, and may consist of the stretching of which I have just
spoken, or a thickening of the heart muscle called hypertrophy.
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Example from a 1919 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Ossification of the Heart
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Angina Pectoris
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Palpitation of the Heart
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A violent,
rapid, and often irregular beating of the heart, caused by
emotional excitement, disease, or excessive action of any kind.
It is usually functional rather than organic, and is most common
in youth and middle life, especially among those engaged in
sedentary occupations. [Appleton1904]
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Example
from a 1909 Canadian Death
Certificate:
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Pancarditis
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Inflammation of all the structures of the heart. [CancerWEB]
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Pericarditis
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Inflammation of the pericardium (sac enclosing the heart). [Heritage]
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Pulmonary Apoplexy
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Note: Apoplexy is now usually limited to cerebral apoplexy, or loss
of consciousness due to effusion of blood or other lesion within
the substance of the brain; but it is sometimes extended to denote
an effusion of blood into the substance of any organ; as, apoplexy
of the lung. [Webster]
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Rheumatism of the Heart
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Rheumatic cardiac valvular disease, most often of the mitral and
aortic valves. [CancerWEB]
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Rheumatic
Valvulitis
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That due to rheumatic
fever, characterized by numerous small, translucent vegetations,
composed of fibrin and platelets, located on the edges of the
valve cusps along the lines of closure. The mitral valve is most
frequently involved. It is sometimes incorrectly called
rheumatic endocarditis. [Dorland]
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Sanguineous Apoplexy
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When apoplexy is
accompanied with a hard, full pulse, and flushed countenance, it
is called Apoplexia sanguinea. [Dunglison1868].
Cerebral hemorrhage.
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Serous Apoplexy
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When apoplexy is
accompanied with a feeble pulse and pale countenance, and
evidences of serous effusion, it is called Apoplexia serosa.
[Dunglison1868].
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Example from a 1864 Death
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Stenocardia
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Angina pectoris.
[American Heritage].
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Example from a 1922 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Stroke
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Apoplexy
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Suffocative Breast Pang
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Angina Pectoris
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Valvular Heart Disease
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Endocarditis, valvulitis.
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Example from a 1920 Death
Certificate from Louisiana:
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Valvulitis
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Inflammation of a
valve or valvula, especially a cardiac valve. [Dorland]
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Weakness of the Heart
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Heart Failure
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