Heart failure
Heart failure refers to the heart's inability to pump blood effectively throughout the body. This condition often arises when the heart becomes too weak or stiff. While it was once commonly referred to as congestive heart failure, this term is less frequently used today. It's important to note that heart failure does not mean the heart has stopped functioning; rather, it indicates that the heart requires assistance to perform better. Although it can affect individuals of any age, it is most prevalent among older adults.
When to seek medical help
If you have ongoing or progressively worsening symptoms of heart failure, it’s important to consult your GP. In cases of sudden or extremely severe symptoms, call 999 for an ambulance or head to your nearest Accident & Emergency department immediately. To assess how effectively your heart is functioning, various tests may be conducted, such as blood tests, an ECG, and an echocardiogram. You can learn more about the diagnosis of heart failure for further information.
Professionals who treat heart failure (230)
Dr Kaushik Guha
Cardiology
Dr Kevin Fernando
GP with specialist interest
Dr Ravi Assomull
Cardiology
Dr Rasha Al-Lamee
Cardiology
Dr Nikhil Joshi
Cardiology
Professor Dan Augustine
Cardiology
Dr Husain Shabeeh
Cardiology
Dr Ricardo Petraco
Cardiology
Dr Deepak Goyal
Cardiology
Dr Nathalia Barreto
Cardiology
Dr Shameer Mehta
Gastroenterologist and Honorary Associate Professor
Dr Mohammad Tamimi
GP (general practitioner)
Dr Laura Corsinovi
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Owen Miller
Consultant
Professor Guy Lloyd
Cardiology
Dr Adnan Nadir
Cardiology
Professor Sanjay Sharma
Cardiology
Miss Carol Tan
Cardiothoracic surgery
Dr Anup Mazumdar
GP (general practitioner)
Mr Jullien Gaer
Cardiothoracic surgery
Dr Sanjay Bhandari
Consultant Cardiologist
Professor Arjun Ghosh
Cardiology
Dr Satnam Singh
Cardiology
Dr Giovanni Luigi De Maria
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Abdullah Mohammed
Internal medicine specialist and Cardiologist
Mr Inderpaul Birdi
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Dr Naveen Mudalagiri
Cardiology
Dr Aseem Malhotra
Cardiology
Dr Sami Firoozi
Cardiology
Mr Paul Modi
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Professor M. Kamran Baig
Cardiologist
Dr Reza Hajhosseiny
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Joseph Tomson
Cardiology
Dr Eric Holroyd
Cardiology
Dr Waqas Khan
Cardiology
Dr Hassan Abbas
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Sameer Kurmani
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Khalid Barakat
Cardiology
Dr Mohamed Ahmed
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Mohamed Alama
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Ramesh de Silva
Cardiology
Dr Alexander Hobson
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Saud Khawaja
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Fadi Jouhra
Cardiology
Professor Constantinos (Dinos) Missouris
Cardiology
Dr Simon Gabe
Gastroenterology
Dr Richard Jabbour
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Nikolaos Anatoliotakis
Cardiology
Professor Rajesh Bagtharia
Consultant Paediatrician and Paediatric cardiology
Dr Hitenkumar Patel
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Ian Webb
Cardiology
Dr Simon Kennon
Cardiology
Dr Simon Pearse
Cardiology
Professor Prapa Kanagaratnam
Cardiology
Professor Ronak Rajani
Cardiology
Dr Simon Wilson
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Clint Maart
Consultant cardiologist and interventional cardiologist
Dr Winston Martin
Cardiology
Dr Nikesh Malik
Cardiology
Dr Prasanna Sankaran
Respiratory Medicine
Dr Francesco Lo Monaco
Cardiologist
Professor Anthony Mathur
Consultant Cardiologist and Director for Cardiovascular Research
Dr Ashish Patwala
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Nitha Naqvi
Paediatric cardiology
Dr Tawfiq Choudhury
Consultant Interventional and General Cardiologist
Dr Sergio Nabais
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Ahmed Elghamaz
Cardiology
Mr Amir Sepehripour
Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Mr Ahmed Othman
Cardiac and Aortic Surgeon
Dr Neil Chapman
Hypertension specialist
Dr Timothy Wells
Consultant general and interventional cardiologist
Dr Nikunj Shah
Consultant Cardiologist
Professor Thomas Krieg
General Internal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology Consultant
Dr Smriti Saraf
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr G. Sunthar Kanaganayagam
Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer
Dr Thomas Mwambingu
Cardiology
Dr Julian Collinson
Cardiology
Dr Salam Salloum
Cardiology
Dr Teresa Castiello
Cardiology
Dr Mohssen Chabok
Cardiology
Dr Andrew Elkington
Consulant cardiologist
Professor Riyaz Patel
Cardiology
Professor Aldo Rinaldi
Cardiology
Professor Amitava Banerjee
Cardiology
Professor Bernard David Prendergast
Cardiology
Professor Attila Kardos
Consultant Cardiologist
Professor Dudley Pennell
Professor of Cardiology specialising
Dr Robin Roberts
Cardiology
Professor Gerald Carr-White
Cardiology
Dr Ganesan Kumar
Cardiology
Professor Julian Halcox
Cardiology
Professor Mohamed Zeinah
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Professor Mohaned Egred
Cardiology
Dr Bashir Alaour
Consultant cardiologist
Professor Sagar Doshi
Cardiology
Professor Simon Robert Redwood
Cardiology
Professor Tom Wong
Cardiology
Professor James Spratt
Interventional cardiologist
Dr Gosia Wamil
Cardiology
Professor Robin Choudhury
Consultant Cardiologist
Mr Neil Roberts
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Mr Walid Elmahdy
Cardiothoracic surgery
Dr Saqib Ghani
Interventional cardiologist
Dr Emmanuel Androulakis
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Bushra Rana
Cardiology
Dr Amit Bhan
Cardiology
Dr Shruthi Konda
Respiratory Medicine
Dr Abhishek Kumar
Cardiology
Dr Aftab Gill
Cardiology
Dr Aigul Baltabaeva
Cardiology
Dr Alex Simms
Cardiology
Mr Alistair McCleary
Vascular Surgery
Dr Allan Harkness
Cardiology
Dr Andrew Vanezis
Cardiology
Dr Anil Kumar Taneja
Consultant cardiologist and
Dr Anne Griguer
General and imaging cardiologist
Dr Anna Marciniak
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Antonis Pantazis
Cardiology
Dr Arnd Dominik Schlosshan
Cardiology
Dr Arvind Vasudeva
Cardiology
Dr Arvind Singh
Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Dr Ashish Dhawan
Cardiology
Dr Nick Linton
Cardiology
Dr Brian Clapp
Cardiology
Dr Bode Ensam
Cardiology
Dr Brijesh Anantharam
Cardiology
Dr Callum Little
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Charis Costopoulos
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Christopher Hayes
Cardiology
Dr Christopher Critoph
Consultant cardiologist
Mr Chung Sim Lim
Vascular Surgery
Dr David Lipkin
Consultant Cardiologist
Professor David Thomas
Nephrology
Dr Deven Patel
Cardiology
Dr Eileen Peat
Cardiology
Ms Rashmi Yadav
Consultant cardiac surgeon
Dr Elliot Smith
Cardiology
Mr Espeed Khoshbin
Consultant cardiac and transplant surgeon
Dr Farhan Shahid
Cardiology
Dr Florian Moenkemeyer
Paediatric cardiology
Dr Francesco Lo Giudice
Cardiology
Mr George Asimakopoulos
Cardiac surgeon
Dr George Amin-Youssef
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Gnanika Simpson
GP (general practitioner)
Dr Girish Viswanathan
Cardiology
Dr Graham Lipkin
Consultant Physician and Nephrologist
Dr Hannah Douglas
Cardiology
Miss Indu Deglurkar
Cardiothoracic surgery
Dr Iqbal Malik
Cardiology
Dr James Wong
Paediatric cardiology
Dr Jayesh Makan
Cardiology
Dr Vivek Kodoth
Cardiology
Dr Jonathan Byrne
Cardiology
Dr Jonathan Hasleton
Cardiology
Dr Julian Ormerod
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Julian Strange
Cardiology
Dr Kare Tang
Cardiology
Dr Konstantinos Savvatis
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Laura-Ann McGill
Cardiology
Dr Laszlo Halmai
Cardiology
Professor Adrian Banning
Cardiology
Mr Abdelrahman Abdelbar
Cardiothoracic surgery
Mr Alberto Albanese
Cardiothoracic surgery
Dr Alessandro Giardini
Paediatric cardiology
Dr Amar Mistry
Cardiology
Dr Ananth Kidambi
Cardiology
Professor Andreas Baumbach
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Brian Halliday
Cardiology
Dr Christopher Malkin
Cardiology
Dr David Lindsay
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Diana Holdright
Cardiology
Dr Dominic Kelly
Cardiology
Dr Emmanuel Ako
Cardiology and Internal Medicine
Mr Franco Ciulli
Cardiothoracic surgery
Mr Gianluca Lucchese
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dr Graham Cole
Cardiology
Dr Heeraj Bulluck
Cardiology
Dr James Gamble
Cardiology
Dr Jim Newton
Cardiology
Dr John D Hung
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Jonathan Behar
Cardiology
Dr Katie Parkinson
GP (general practitioner)
Dr Magdi Saba
Consultant Cardiologist (Electrophysiologist)
Dr Malcolm Burgess
Cardiology
Dr Manas Sinha
Cardiology
Dr Neeraj Jain
Paediatrician with expertise
Dr Mark Connaughton
Cardiology
Dr Mark Scoote
Cardiology
Dr Mark Williams
Cardiology
Dr Matthew Faircloth
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Matthias Schmitt
Cardiology
Mr Max Baghai
Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Dr Michael Hickman
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Michael John Van der Watt
Cardiology
Dr Michael Mullen
Cardiology
Professor Michael Papadakis
Cardiology
Dr Mick Ozkor
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Mohamed Farag
Cardiology
Dr Mohamed Al-Obaidi
Cardiology
Mr Moninder Bhabra
Cardiothoracic surgery
Dr Narbeh Melikian
Cardiology
Dr Neil Hobson
Cardiology
Dr Niall Keenan
Cardiology
Dr Nicholas Robinson
Cardiology
Dr Nikolaos Papamichail
Consultant cardiologist
Dr Osama Alsanjari
Cardiology
Dr Peter Clarkson
Cardiology
Professor Peter Groves
Cardiology
Dr Pierluigi Costanzo
Cardiology
Dr Piers Clifford
Cardiology
Dr Raj Chelliah
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Rajan Sharma
Cardiology
Dr Rajesh Chelliah
Consultant Cardiologist
Mr Ranjit Deshpande
Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Dr Riyaz Kaba
Cardiology
Dr Rodney Foale
Cardiology
Dr Sachin Khambadkone
Paediatric cardiology
Dr Sam Dawkins
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Sanjeev Bhattacharyya
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Sen Sankar
Cardiology
Mr Selvaraj Shanmuganathan
Cardiothoracic surgery
Mr Shahzad Raja
Cardiac surgeon
Dr Sohail Q Khan
Cardiology
Dr Sveeta Badiani
Cardiology
Mr Toufan Bahrami
Cardiothoracic surgery
Mr Ulrich Rosendahl
Cardiothoracic surgery
Dr Vinay Kumar Bhatia
Cardiology
Dr Vinit Sawhney
Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist
Dr Vivienne Ezzat
Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist
Mr Vivek Srivastava
Cardiothoracic surgeon