Assertion: heart failure's heart | /r/HasProperty | ventricle
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text: In heart failure, the main pumping chambers of your heart (the ventricles) may become stiff and not fill properly between beats.
text: In heart failure, the main pumping chambers of your heart (the ventricles) may become stiff and not fill properly between beats.
text: The heart contracts and pumps normally, but the bottom chambers of the heart (ventricles) are thicker and stiffer than normal.
text: People with heart failure have high levels of BNP in the blood — a hormone released by the lower chambers of the heart (ventricles).
text: To compensate, the main pumping chambers of the heart (ventricles) become larger and the heart muscle thickens in order to maintain normal blood flow to the body.
text: The lower chambers of the heart (ventricles) can flutter or quiver (ventricular fibrillation) or the heart can beat very quickly (ventricular tachycardia).
text: A type of pacemaker that helps certain chambers of the heart (ventricles) contract normally and in synchrony, which can improve the heart’s function.