Suspected heart failure

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Suspected heart failure

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Aug 6, 2013

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Mabel Chew, practice editor at the BMJ, talks to Tushar Kotecha, a cardiology specialist registrar at Charing Cross Hospital in London, about when to suspect heart failure, and how to diagnose the condition.

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Aug 6, 2013

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