CONGESTIVE heart failureDYSPNEAEDEMAFATIGUE (Physiology)Background: Patients may not verbalize common and atypical signs and symptoms of heart failure and may not understand their association with worsening disease and treatments. Objectives: To examine prevalence of signs and symptoms relative to...
Coronary heart disease is caused by any problem with the coronary arteries that keeps the heart from getting enough oxygen and nutrient-rich blood.Atherosclerosisis the most common cause of heart disease. Ischemia is the lack of sufficient blood so coronary heart disease is sometimes called ischemic...
The present relates to a method for detecting cardiac remodeling in a subject without clinical signs of heart failure comprising determining the level of the NGAL-MMP9 complex in a blood sample obtain
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monitor valve closure and valve insufficiency. Gallop rhythms due to third and fourth heart sounds are clues to worsening heart failure. Similarly, the appearance of SGR signals due to mitral or tricuspid valve regurgitation, whether by comparison to other patients or on serial SCGs from an ...
In general, women live longer than men do because they have a lower risk ofheart disease, but when women develop diabetes, their risk forheartdiseaseskyrockets, and death by heart failure is more likely in women than in men. Another study also found that in people with diabetes,heart attack...
Complications of the flu can include bacterial pneumonia, ear infection, sinus infection, dehydration, and worsening of chronic medical conditions, such as congestive heart failure, asthma, or diabetes. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates 200,000 people are hospitalized each year due to...
The Louvel sign denotes worsening of pain along the course of a thrombotic vein by coughing or sneezing. The Lowenberg sign is present if, after inflation of a sphygmomanometer cuff around each calf, pain is experienced in the affected calf at a lower pressure than in the unaffected one.48 ...
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and signs as shown in Table 3. The presence of a symptom or sign was given the point value indicated in the right column and the values for each of the symptoms and signs were summed up for the score. An increase in the score corresponds to a worsening in the patient's heart ...