Medical Definition of Backward heart failure

1. A concept (formerly considered mutually exclusive of forward heart failure) that maintains that the phenomena of congestive heart failure result from passive engorgement of the veins caused by a "backward" rise in pressure proximal to the failing cardiac chambers. Compare: forward heart failure. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backward Heart Failure

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backward heart failure (current term)
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