congestive heart failure
MONDO:0005009Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names congestive heart failure yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
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.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0005009), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
2 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, hp/releases/2026-09-01.
- Congestive heart failureMondoHP:0001635
- DyspneaMondoHP:0002094
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
5 names
Resolves to: congestive heart failure
- Also called
- cardiac failure, congestiveCHFcongestive heart diseasefailure, congestive heartheart failure, congestive