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Are congestive heart failure and diastolic heart failure the same?
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Congestive heart failure is a buildup of fluid due to a failure of the heart to maintain a normal forward flow. It is a pump problem. Symptoms my include swelling of the soft tissues of the extremities, particularly the lower extremities, shortness of breath from buildup of fluid in the lungs, inability to lie down due to shortness of breath, decreased appetite, and exercise intolerance.
An enlarged heart may be seen on chest xray in a patient with congestive heart failure, but other conditions may cause an enlarged heart as well, including chronic hypertension.
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∙ 8y agoCongestive heart failure can cause an enlarged heart, but an enlarged heart is not always a sign of congestive heart failure. They are not the same thing.
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1.Why does the needle of the sphygmomanometer twitch only when the device is between the subjects systolic and diastolic blood pressure?
When the cuff is initially put on, it's put on with high air pressure in order to pinch so tightly that even at systolic pressure the blood cannot flow through that vein the cuff is monitoring. So there is no pulse detected by the cuff as there is no blood flow in the vein at that place. Then when the cuff air is released that relaxes the pinch to where its pressure matches or below the systolic pressure, the blood and its pulse from the heart beat flow again in the vein. And that pulsing is the "twitch" that you see. But then as more cuff pressure is relieved it reaches the same pressure as the diastolic pressure in the vein. And the diastolic pressure does not pulse as it's the pressure when the heart is relaxed and not pumping. So the twitching stops at or below the diastolic pressure on the cuff because there is no pulse in the diastolic or below range.
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