How To Spot The Signs Of Heart Failure

from The Big Story · host Michael Cannon

How do you spot the signs of heart failure? Laois' Nicholas Hines suffered a stroke in February 2020. The 47-yea-old says it led to a diagnosis of underlying dilated cardiomyopathy and sarcoidosis, and to a successful heart transplant operation in 2024. Both conditions came as a surprise to him, Emer Burke, Nurse and Heart Failure Nurse Specialist and President of the Irish Association of Heart Failure Nurses and from Edenderry also spoke with Will Faulkner about how to spot the signs of heart issues:

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