When that happens, your blood flow could be blocked or blood can leak. The causes of heart valve problems include infections such as rheumatic fever, congenital heart disease, high blood pressure, CAD, and damage from a heart attack. Diseases of the heart valves include: Endocarditis. This is...
Your heart muscle needs a constant supply of oxygen-rich blood. Your coronary arteries give your heart this critical blood supply. If you have coronary artery disease, those arteries become narrow, and blood can’t flow as well as it should. When your blood supply is blocked, you have a ...
In a vasovagal episode, the vagus nerve (one of the nerves that helps control basic body functions like heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure) is overly stimulated and can cause the heart rate to slow and blood vessels to dilate. This decreases the flow of blood to the brain and can...
Heart attack is the death of a segment of heart muscle caused by the loss of blood supply. 心肌梗塞,是由于心肌缺血而导致的心脏肌肉坏死。 The blood supply is usually lost because a coronary artery, one that supplies blood to the heart muscle, is blocked by a blood clot (coronary thrombosis...
which can cause the heart to stop abruptly. Keeping him alive afterwards required "the whole village," Lee said. In addition to ECMO, Ford received multiple stents to open the blocked arteries in his heart. Weaning him off ECMO took more work, Lee said, and his care team had to ensure ...
1072-215 Depressive symptoms are associated with reduced heart rate variability in individuals without coronary artery diseasedoi:10.1016/S0735-1097(04)90504-9Viola Vaccarino and Rachel Lampert and Forrester Lee and J.Douglas Bremner and Jerome L Abramson and Nancy Murrah and Nadeem Afzal and Faiz...
Heart attacks occur when arteries that lead blood to the heart become blocked. Normally, this is how the heart works: Your heart pumps blood to every cell in your body via a network of arteries. This blood provides oxygen and other essential nutrients, without which your body could not funct...
Heart healthy lifestyle is the key to prevent and manage almost all kinds of heart disease.What's in Your Food? Have a question aboutHeart Diseases?Ask a doctor now2 SymptomsThe symptoms of heart disease are highly disease specific. Symptoms due to narrowed, blocked or stiffened blood vessels...
heart attack,deathof a section of the myocardium, themuscleof theheart, caused by an interruption ofbloodflow to the area. A heart attack results from obstruction of thecoronary arteries. The most common cause is a blood clot (thrombus) that lodges in an area of a coronary artery thickened ...
Angina pectoris, pain or discomfort in the chest, usually caused by the inability of diseased coronary arteries to deliver sufficient oxygen-laden blood to the heart muscle. When insufficient blood reaches the heart, waste products accumulate in the hear