Terms & Properties

Preferred Name:  Congestive Heart Failure

Definition:  Failure of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood to meet the needs of the body tissues, resulting in tissue congestion and edema. Signs and symptoms include shortness of breath, pitting edema, enlarged tender liver, engorged neck veins, and pulmonary rales.

FDA Definition:  Inability of the heart to pump blood adequately to fill tissue metabolic requirements or the ability to do so only at an elevated filling pressure.

NCI-GLOSS Definition:  Weakness of the heart muscle that leads to a buildup of fluid in body tissues.

Label:  Congestive Heart Failure

NCI Thesaurus Code:  C3080 (Search for linked caDSR metadata)   (search value sets)

NCI Metathesaurus Link:  C3551869  (see NCI Metathesaurus info)

Synonyms & Abbreviations: (see Synonym Details)

Cardiac Failure Congestive

CHF

Congestive Heart Failure

congestive heart failure

Congestive heart failure

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)

Heart Failure/Congestive Heart Failure

External Source Codes: 

UMLS CUI

C3551869

Other Properties:

Name	Value (qualifiers indented underneath)
code	C3080
Contributing_Source	Cellosaurus
Contributing_Source	FDA
Contributing_Source	GDC
Contributing_Source	NICHD
Contributing_Source	SeroNet
FDA_Table	Patient Code (Appendix B)
Legacy Concept Name	Congestive_Heart_Failure
Maps_To	Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
	Target_Terminology: GDC       Relationship_to_Target: Has Synonym       Target_Term_Type: PT       Target_Code: comorbidities
Semantic_Type	Disease or Syndrome
xRef	IMDRF:E0611

Additional Concept Data: 

Defined Fully by Roles: No

URL:https://ncit.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/ConceptReport.jsp?dictionary=NCI_Thesaurus&ns=ncit&code=C3080