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My Ankles Are Swollen—Does That Mean My Heart is Failing?!

My Ankles Are Swollen—Does That Mean My Heart is Failing?!

After an early summer hiatus from these weekly blogs, I’ll return this week to the question in the title above, which I get asked about almost daily in my office. The causes of swollen ankles are numerous, but most people’s biggest fear is that they have CHF (congestive heart failure).  Indeed, peripheral edema (edema fluid causing swelling of the extremities, usually…

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