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For how long can a person live with congestive heart failure?

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Lifelong/70 -90 year: Congestive heart failure is a chronic illness. You need to see a cardiologist on regular basis and get check your ejection fraction of heart. If it is <30 % you will benefit from aicd( defibrilltor.

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