The failing heart has an increased metabolic demand and at the same time suffers from impaired energy-efficiency, which is a detrimental combination. Therefore therapies targeting the energy-deprived failing heart and rewiring cardiac metabolism are of great potential, but are lacking in daily clinical...
The most common cause of heart failure is a heart attack, which causes irreparable damage to the heart and leads to heart failure. The condition can involve sudden worsening of symptoms, requiring hospitalisations, which are often prolonged. Living with heart failure also carries an on-going risk...
The heart is an organ composed primarily of muscle and is responsible for pumping blood to all tissues.
Up to 50 % of heart failure patients suffer from lower urinary tract symptoms. Urinary incontinence has been associated with worse functional stat
Looking at the images of my failing heart, Heather asked, “Where is her LAD?” She meant my heart’s left anterior descending artery, which supplied blood to the left ventricle—the pump. Lose that blood flow, and you likely lose your life—which is why they call the LAD the widow(...
What Are the Consequences of Long-Term Stress? Ongoing, chronic stress can trigger or worsen many serious health problems, including: Mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, and personality disorders Cardiovascular disease, includingheart disease, high blood pressure, abnormal heart rhythms...
Examples of medical negligence that can lead to cerebral palsy include: Failing to detect or properly treat infections Ignoring changes in fetal heart rate Mismanaging a prolapsed umbilical cord, which can cut off oxygen to the baby Not performing a medically advisable cesarean section (C-section)...
result of the individual believing it will remedy the symptoms (placebo effect). Also, breathing into a paper bag when one is having trouble breathing can make matters worse when the hyperventilation is the result of conditions of oxygen deprivation, as occurs with an asthmaattackor a heart ...
Heart Disease: Causes of a Heart AttackSee Slideshow What procedures and tests diagnose the cause of chest pain? The key to diagnosis is the patient's medical history. Learning about the nature of the pain will give the health care professional direction as to what are reasonable diagnoses to...
Delay time was increased with heartburn, breathlessness or intermittent symptoms and decreased with sweating and dizziness (P < 0.05). Independent predictors of increased prehospital time (P < or = 0.01) were fewer than 10 years of education, not wanting to trouble anyone, failing to recognize ...