Your skin is cold and sweaty. You’re very tired. You’re confused and forget things. How Is it Treated? There is no cure for heart failure, but there are treatments for its symptoms. Talk to your doctor. They may suggest medications to make you more comfortable. In some cases, a pro...
Stage A (at risk for HF): high risk for heart failure but without structural heart disease, objective evidence of cardiovascular disease, or symptoms of heart failure : Hypertension Diabetes Metabolic syndrome Obesity Exposure to medications or treatments that cause cardiac damage (e.g., ch...
Her symptoms had remained the same despite current treatment. During the initial history-taking, she did not report any medical illnesses or surgeries. She had been well and had not undergone any screening for almost 30 years before the first hospitalisation for heart failure. There was neit...
Due to the presence of exercise intolerance, heart failure patients are often counseled to limit their physical activity. However, this advice may be inappropriate, because current evidence suggests that exercise training improves central hemodynamics, peripheral muscle function, and symptoms and reduces ...
Heart failure develops when the contracting action or the relaxing action of the heart is inadequate, typically because the heart muscle is weak, stiff, or both. Many disorders that affect the heart can cause heart failure. Most people have no symptoms at first, and shortness of breath an...
(chest pain caused when the heart receives insufficient oxygen-rich blood) fromheart failure, as well as the symptoms ofcoronary artery disease (CAD)to increase blood and oxygen flow to the heart and make it work more efficiently. However, trimetazidine is stillin the trial phasefor use in ...
Your heart muscle starts to heal soon after a heart attack. This takes about 8 weeks. Just like askin wound, a scar forms in the damaged area. But the new scar tissue doesn’t move the way it should. So your heart can’t pump as much after a heart attack. How much that ability ...
, there is a possibility that sαKl is produced as a compensatory response and protects the heart during heart failure by acting as a suppressor of inflammation. Thus, patients who respond to stimuli during heart failure and produce sαKl may have a better chance to ameliorate symptoms....
Efforts to administer defibrillation left the skin on her chest was almost burned by the current of defibrillator. As her condition deteriorated, her left ventricle continued to dilate, her heart was nearly “going on strike”, with various symptoms further leading to thrombosis in the left ...
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