LVF full form in medical term means Left Ventricle Failure. It is also known as left-sided heart failure and generally happens when your left ventricle cannot perform the task of pumping the blood efficiently. This in turn causes the body to lack oxygen-rich blood and may build up blood backups in the lungs and other areas. This will induce shortness of breath and build up fluid. It occurs in two different types, i.e. systolic heart failure and diastolic heart failure. In systolic heart failure, the bottom pumping chamber cannot pump the blood out to the body while in diastolic heart failure, the left ventricle becomes stiff and cannot relax properly causing difficulty in filling it with the blood.
Left ventricle failure can be caused by various reasons like heart attack, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, abnormal heart rhythms, sarcoid, amyloid, and more. Other major reasons that can cause LVF are diabetes, cardiotoxicity due to chemotherapy, sleep apnea, smoking, and more. The initial symptoms of this are mild but increase with the worsening of the heart functioning. You may feel constant coughing, shortness of breath, weight gain, swelling, and more as part of the symptom of this.