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Heart Disease

About one in every four deaths in the United States is due to heart disease, making it the leading cause of death. Ask questions about various heart diseases here.

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What is the medical term meaning disease condition?

Pathy (path = disease + y = process) is used to indicate a disease condition. Andropathy means disease processes particular to men.

Pathology meand the process of studying diseases.

Sometimes, instead of using "disease" the term will have it a medical condition. In that case you will see "-iasis" or "-osis added as a suffix as in hyperhydrosis (hyper = a lot + hydr = water + osis = condition of).

Why does left heart failure often lead to right heart failure?

When a person has hypertension, the ventricles will hypertrophy, which makes the chambers larger. Afterload is directly related to the chamber size, and contraction velocity is inversely related to afterload. Contraction velocity is a measure of contractility. So, as chambers hypertrophy, contactility decreases.

What precautions should be taken in prescription of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator?

The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator should not be used on patients who faint from causes other than a known life-threatening ventricular arrhythmia, to treat slow heart rates, or during an emergency.

What is the difference between hypoxia and ischemia?

simply, Hypoxia is less oxygen supply to cell tissues, while the Ischemia is less blood supply to cell issues.

Saint to pray for heart failure?

St martin de Porres is a saint who had a a great reputation for healing sickness of all kinds during his lifetime and since his death he has worked many miracles for those who invoke his intercession. There is a St Martin Novena which can be prayed with great confidence.

What commonly causes fluid on the right lung?

had pain in right lung,had xray and anti biotics amoxicillan,pain gone but lung feels slightly gravely

When doctors are trying to start up a heart with a defibrillator when is epinephrine given is it during or only after the heart's started beating again?

First of all, they don't always use epinephrine. You need to understand that they aren't actually trying to "start up" the heart, they are trying to correct a serious cardiac arrythmia. Now, forget about everything you see in movies for a second, any medical show/ movie on TV is full of medical inconsistency. See, defibrillators actually stop the heart's electrical activity rather than start it. The two conditions in which an external defibrillator is used are called Ventricular Fibrillation (V-Fib) and Ventricular Tachycardia (V-Tach). V-Fib is when the heart's electrical activity is completely disorganized and the heart is "twitching", V-Tach is basically when the heart is beating so fast that it is not moving blood. Both situations, as you can imagine, are very serious. The defibrillator shocks the patient to the point where the heart's electrical activity stops, and since the heart makes its own electrical impulse, it will then hopefully restart itself. So answering your question, epinephrine can be given in certain cases to attempt to help the heart restart itself. Usually an initial shock will be given beforehand but it will be given before other shocks if the heart does not restart itself the first time (which a LOT of times it does not). But thinking back to what I said about V-Tach, you do not want to give epinephrine to a patient whose heart is beating too fast to begin with. Sorry for the complex answer, but it's hard to answer a question like that without explaining some other things as well.

How do you pronounce defibrillator?

Dee-fib-ruh-later (like the word "later"), emphasis goes on the second syllabe.

Throbbing pain in my left big toe and it is swollen what could be the cause?

Pain in your big toe could be caused by a traumatic injury (did you strike it on something?) or it could be something medically...like gout . Symptoms of gout develop suddenly and usually involve only one or a few joints. The big toe, knee, or ankle joints are most often affected. The pain frequently starts during the night and is often described as throbbing, crushing, or excruciating. The joint appears infected with signs of warmth, redness, and tenderness. The attacks of painful joints may go away in several days, but may return from time to time. Some people may progress to chronic gouty arthritis, while others may have no further attacks. A prescription medicine called colchicine helps reduce pain, swelling, and inflammation associated with acute gout attacks. The medication decreases the inflammation caused by uric acid crystals within the joint. It does not decrease the uric acid levels in the bloodstream. The pain often goes away within 12 hours of starting treatment...see a doctor for a definitive diagnosis.

Is Atherosclerosis genetic?

Atherosclerosis is often found in clusters in families. Atherosclerosis is a thickening of the artery walls as a result of an invasion and accumulation of white cells.

Are there scholarships for students with heart disease?

Yes, there is now. Our foundation, Students with Heart Foundation, offers scholarships for both, graduate and undergraduate, students. Check the Related Links for the URL of

our website.

Also, different camps are held around the country for "heart kids". You could see if there is one in your State. I know northern West Virginia has one. They may know more about scholarships.

Can an Defibrillator jump start a car battery?

NO!

i don't know for sure but you might kill them

it's just really stupid if your that desperate just keep doing CPR

Would morphine help in end stage heart failure?

Yes....the only reason I say that is because I watched my mother die on March 8th....it will be 1 month tomorrow since her death...also my dad was just diagnosed with CHF yesterday and is now in the hospital to get the swelling under control....at the end stage of CHF hospice told me to go and pick up a "comfort pack" for my mother...which included 5 morphine pills ( the kind that dissolve in your mouth) and 2 injectable syringes with morphine in them as well... so...yes it does help with the comfort at the end of this stage.

How often a heart failure patient will receive TIV vaccine?

Annually during the flu season.

Only children 6months-9years of age should receive more than one dose a year and that is only once between in a 2 phase fashion. Once the day of and one dose 4 weeks prior to the first dose.

Why is it that Alzheimer's disease begins as a disease of memory?

it begins as a disease of memory because the disease destroys brain cells and that makes you loose your memory.

Cardiomyopathy is caused by?

many many many things. but the definition of cardiomyopathy is a low ejection fraction... under 50%.

What lifestyle choices are major factors in preventing heart disease in men?

Lifestyle habits such as diet, exercise and stress control play major roles in the development and prevention of heart disease in men.

Physicain who specializes in heart diseases?

A doctor who specialises in heart diseases is known as a "Cardiologist".