Light micrograph of a section through a human liver showing chronic venous congestion. Congestion hepatopathy is liver dysfunction due to venous congestion, usually due to congestive heart failure. It is described as diffused venous congestion within the liver that results from right-sided heart failure (usually due to a cardiomyopathy, tricuspid regurgitation, mitral insufficiency, cor pulmonale or constrictive pericarditis).