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Today my 95 year old great-grandmother was diagnosed with chf. what are her odds of recovering?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Would want to: know the severity (stage) of her congestive heart failure. What is her overall health- is she responding to medical treatment? All of us have a finite life - best to ask her treating doctor.

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Answered 12/1/2014

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