Website advice for HF patients
A new educational website specifically for heart failure patients, their families and carers, has been set up by the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology.
How heart failure causes fluid accumulation
On this site, host ‘Anna’, an animated woman who speaks in a friendly, matter of fact way, guides the visitor through the website advice sections.
There are also animated explanations covering how the normal heart works, what goes wrong in HF, how the body compensates, an much else (example in illustration).
Cardiologists and physicians who wish to advise patients that they can learn more about their HF condition via their own computers, should pass on this address: www.heartfailure.org
01.09.2008
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