Hill died at the age of ninety-two on October 11, 2007 in Terrell Hills, Texas, of congestive heart failure.
Affected persons usually present with signs of systemic fluid overload due to conditions such as congestive heart failure (CHF), cirrhosis or renal insufficiency.
A patient's entire medical history would be reduced to a sentence: "84-year-old male with congestive heart failure and Type II diabetes, admitted with pneumonia."
About one in three cases of congestive heart failure (CHF) is due to dilated cardiomyopathy.
Harris died in a Richmond, Virginia hospital from congestive heart and lung failure at the age of 65.
Schroth died at age 88 on July 23, 2009, due to congestive heart failure suffered at his home in Sedgwick, Maine.
The cause was congestive heart and kidney failure, said a daughter, Laurie Kahn-Leavitt.
She died aged 91 from congestive heart failure at her home in San Carlos, California.
Digitalis, effective against congestive heart failure (dropsy) was no use against the major coronary diseases.
More patients are hospitalized for congestive heart failure than for all cancers combined.