Heart Failure

In a normal healthy heart, all the blood that comes into the heart is easily pumped out again. If you have heart failure, your heart cannot cope with pumping the full amount of blood, or it tires more easily than normal. Some 'power' of the heart is lost.

Heart failure does not mean that your heart is going to stop at any minute. It simply means that your heart does not pump as well as it used to do.

The amount of 'power' that is lost from the heart varies from person to person. In many cases, heart failure is mild or moderate. Symptoms can often be treated. In some cases, the power of the heart becomes very low, and the symptoms become severe.