...Common causes of heart failure include myocardial infarction and other forms of ischemic heart disease, hypertension, valvular heart disease and cardiomyopathy. Heart failure can cause a large variety of symptoms such as shortness of breath (typically worse when lying flat, which is called orthopnea), coughing, ankle swelling and reduced exercise capacity. Heart failure is often undiagnosed due to a lack of a universally agreed definition and challenges in definitive diagnosis. Treatment commonly consists of lifestyle measures (such as decreased salt intake) and medications, and sometimes devices or even surgery. Read full entry
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- 1.What Is Heart Failure? - NHLBI
- Fact sheet about congestive heart failure from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Learn what causes the condition, what the signs and symptoms are, and ...
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- 2.Congestive Heart Failure - MedicineNet
- Online reference to congestive heart failure, with information about what causes the condition, what its symptoms are, how it is diagnosed, and the long-term ...
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Heart failure?
If someone had a heart attack,
and their Troponin levels kept
getting higher, does that mean
its getting worse?
Also, if the heart attack
occurred and there was minor
damage to the heart, does that
mean heart failure doesnt
always happen?
or does heart failure happen
all of the time after a heart
attack?
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You can have small heart attacks which are not fatal however they cause scarring on the tissue of heart. Its when they have a massive heart attack that people die due HEART FAILURE. |
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What's the difference between My Cavalier has heart disease
(I think it is MVD). She has
been on tablets for several
months for it. On the packet
it says that they are for the
treatment of heart failure in
dogs. I used to think that
heart failure was when the
heart just stopped working and
the dog died, but that is
obviously not the case. What
does heart failure actually
mean? Thanks xx
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http://www.cavalierhealth.org/ mitral_valve_disease.htm This has lots of info. Heart disease in cavaliers means the mitral valve(and occasionally the tricuspid valve)is diseased and leaking.Heart failure means the disease has progressed till the heart doesn't pump efficiently and the fluid builds up in the lungs,also known as chf. The most common drugs for mvd are ace inhibitors.enalapril and benazapril,with lasix added when failure occurs and pimobendan added as they hit later stages of the disease. Try and find a vet experienced in heart disease. |
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can somsone describe the in etiology, pathogenesis and
symptoms. And what are the two
ways in which right heart
failure can occur, and what
are the complications of heart
failure?
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Heart Failure is basically the heart's inability to function as an effective and efficient pump. The etiology or pathogenesis stems from actual damage to the heart tissue. Damage can occur from myocardial infarctions (heart attacks), stenosis from any of the valves (mitral, aortic, pulmonic, tricuspid), pulmonary hypertension, or disease process such as pericarditis. Complications from heart failure includes a decreased ejection fraction, increased fatigue, general weakness, shortness of breath, dyspnea on exertion, pulmonary edema, and pitting edema to the lower extremities. I hope this helps. Feel free to email me if you have any other questions. |
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