Heart Disease

There are no cures for atherosclerosis. There are only treatments for it currently and preventative measures you can take to help minimize your risk from the complications that come from atherosclerosis (i.e heart attack and stroke to name a few). Treatments include expensive medicines, or surgery like an angioplasty which may require the need for stents to physically open the artery wider, or even bipass operations.

It can be. The heart is a pump. If the heart attack is severe enough to affect the pumping cabability of the heart then your blood pressure would drop. This is not a good sign to see in someone with a heart attack.

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Yes, vomiting, is related to a heart attack. It is a common symptom of a heart attack.

It is partly genetically determined but lifestyle choices such as diet, exercise, weight, and smoking play a role as well.

The lifestyle component is your diet. Atherosclerosis progresses faster in those people who eat diets rich in animal fats, fried foods and simple carbohydrates (e.g. sweets). Also, smoking, obesity and a sedentary lifestyle contribute, as well. Atherosclerosis is sometimes called a "lifestyle disease" because some of the risk factors are within the patient's control.

Well in 2007 there was 616,067 deaths from heart disease

I got cardiomyopathy at the age of 35... I was a drug addict and drank since the age of 14. I have kept my weight down and tried to be real careful about my salt intake..I also walk alot...when I was first diagnosed I had 10% use of my heart and was in congestive heart failure.I am two weeks shy of my 45th birthday and I am currently waiting for results of my last echocardiogram. My doctor said that I might be able to stop taking my medicine if all is well. He also asked me if I knew how lucky I was..I said I did. There is hope....

Treatment will possibly prevent the heart from further deterioration but is unlikely to reverse the reduced function that has already occurred.

Treatment for alcoholic cardiomyopathy involves lifestyle changes, including complete abstinence from alcohol use, a low sodium diet, and fluid restriction, as well as medications. Medications may include ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, and diuretics which are commonly used with other forms of cardiomyopathy to reduce the strain on the heart. Persons with congestive heart failure may be considered for surgical insertion of an ICD or a pacemaker which can improve heart function. In cases where the heart failure is irreversible and worsening, heart transplant may be considered.

Carotid endarterectomy surgery involves removing arterial plaque from inside blood vessels.

Congenital heart disease

Hypertention creates a tough environment that may cause a mechanical trauma to the intima layer of the blood vessel wall; upon such effect may leave a tear of intima and therefore predispose to atheroma.

14-month old boy was diagnosed with four congenital heart defects. He was admitted into the children's hospital where doctors knew immediately that the boy would need surgery. Surgeons realized that creating a 3D model of the boy's heart would help study the defects and save the boy's life. Doctor called an engineering department which created a 3D model made from a polymer. The model helped doctors study the defects and come up with solutions before the critical surgery and boy's heart was repaired by the surery in what is the first use of 3-D printing for treating a pediatric heart patient.

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Congestive heart failure - right-sided occurs in 1 in 20 people. It is a condition in which the right side of the heart loses its ability to pump blood efficiently.

Bacterial endocarditis is infection of the inner lining of the heart caused by bacteria. People with serious valve disease are at greater risk for bacterial endocarditis.

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non-communicable diseases

Mild cardiomegaly means that the heart is slightly enlarged. This can be because of a number of reasons including an infection, congestive heart failure, or a recent heart attack.

because when a baby's or babies' mother drinks alcohol and/or takes drugs it has some kind of damage to the baby's/babies'heart. unless a mother knows that she's pregnant and starts to worrie about her baby's/babies' health she should contact a doctor at once.

salam.................An estimated 17 million people die of CVDs, particularly heart attacks and strokes, every year. A substantial number of these deaths can be attributed to tobacco smoking, which increases the risk of dying from coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular disease 2-3 fold. Physical inactivity and unhealthy diet are other main risk factors which increase individual risks to cardiovascular diseases

Cor Pulmonale is increased strain on the right side of the heart due to lung diseases that increase the pressure of the blood flowing through the lungs. The right ventricle tries to push blood through the diseased and usually scarred lung via vessels called pulmonary arteries, but has trouble doing this because of the scarring, resulting in increased pressure in the artery and therefore the right ventricle. The right ventricle compensates by getting bigger, and ultimately stops working so well.

A fast heart-rate is actually one of the known symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The chemistry of the blood allows the release of chemicals signalling the heart to pump faster when the concentration of oxygen in the blood drops. Carbon monoxide ties up hemoglobin - which causes the oxygen concentration in the blood to drop - and thus the blood chemistry signals the heart to beat faster to compensate. If the air the person is breathing is loaded with carbon monoxide, this only makes matters worse since it speeds up the saturation of the hemoglobin with carbon monoxide instead of oxygen.

Stress does not always cause a heart problem. If a person already suffers from high blood pressure, and the stress causes an adrenaline reaction that increases heart rate and blood pressure even further, that could cause a problem.

In many cases, ischemia can be successfully treated, but the underlying disease process of atherosclerosis is usually not "cured." The outcome for silent ischemia has not been well established.

Atherosclerosis predisposes a person to many different types of disease such as coronary artery disease, peripeheral arterial disease, mesenteric ischemia, and ischemic stroke to name some of the heavy hitters. These are all dangerous diseases that can be lethal.