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What does this medical abbrevations "ccf" mean?

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See below: Where i come from, it means "cleveland clinic foundation" (full disclosure: i'm employed by the ccf).

Answered 8/19/2013

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CCF: Congestive Cardiac failure..more simply referred to as Heart failure http://patient.info/health/heart-failure-leaflet

Answered 10/19/2016

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