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TREATMENT FOR HEART DISEASES
In today’s fast life, people are facing a lot of heart diseases, with each disease having its unique way of treatment. Some of the common heart diseases include congenital heart defect, cardiovascular disorder, cardiomyopathy, etc. And the common ways of getting well from these diseases are taking appropriate medicines, cardiovascular exercises, change of diet and lifestyle. The final option is Heart Surgery.
If you are stricken with heart diseases due to birth defects (congenital heart diseases), catheter procedure, use of some dedicated medicines may help you. Often it is recommended to opt for open-heart surgery. In some cases, you have to go for heart transplant, provided a blood match for you is found.
For treating diseases related to blockage of arteries, i.e. cardiovascular diseases, doctors advise the patients to firstly make changes to their lifestyle. This includes shifting your diet to less-fat products and regular exercises. Giving up bad habits like drinking and smoking plays an important part in deciding how quickly you will recover from the disease. Some popular medications like aspirin, diuretics, etc are very helpful in curing these diseases. If the medicines don’t suffice the need, you may have to opt for surgery (angioplasty), which may require bypass surgery sometimes.
In case of pumping defects (cardiomyopathy), the recommendation of majority of the doctors is to use ACE inhibitors. If the case is quite severe, use of pacemakers is suggested.
If there is some infection in a critical area of the heart, the first treatment is to use antibiotics. In next stages, surgery is required to repair the affected part of the heart which has been damaged due to infection.
Stent for Heart Eliminates the Chances of Angina
Angina pectoris is commonly known as angina and it is referred as chest pain, and sometimes moves in jaws, neck, back and arm along with heavy congestion. It often starts suddenly and remains for few seconds in the result of stress, exertion, or cold. A coronary disease that occurs due to the short supply of blood to the heart resulting the short fall of oxygen essentially required by heart to work stably is angina.
There are two different kinds of angina, unstable angina and stable angina; both treated in various ways. Besides, cardiac surgery or heart by-pass, more often angioplasty and specially designed stent are used to cure all sorts of angina.
Doctors normally refer two types of procedures to coronary artery disease or the angina patients, medications and IV or interventional treatment to open the blocked or narrowed coronary arteries. No matter which method is applied, motive is to provide a healthy and improved life to the patient and to eliminate the causes of coronary heart disease. However, with the availability and access to the most advanced equipment many cardiac surgeons are preferring stent plantation in patients to widen the blocked artery to maintain the normal blood flow to the heart.
Specially designed stent for heart is a tiny-wired mashed tube that moves inside the blocked artery under specialized procedure known as angioplasty to widen the space of the narrowed artery. To define the blocked artery, a contrast dye is inserted into the blood vessel and a catheter with balloon is moved to the heart. Once the catheter reaches the desired portion, the balloon is filled with air to expand the artery and second catheter with a stent is directed into the narrowed artery. The doctor expands the stent and catheter is removed or taken out after the stent is placed firmly at the desired position. Entire procedure takes approximately 30 minutes to 3 hours.
Stent for heart is one of the most suitable and reasonable treatments to cure angina. After the procedure, with proper care angina can be avoided for a long time.
ts3 � e d ��� � � nd smoking, existing diseases like diabetes, rigid eating habits, etc. play a very important part in giving the correct treatment to the patient at the right time.Some of the common symptoms of chest pain are sweating, palpitations, nausea, dizziness, etc. Besides these, some patients may feel heaviness and shortness of breath. Some patients may feel the spreading of the chest pain in surrounding areas like the neck, left arm or jaw.
Based on the above symptoms, appropriate medical tests are carried out at the earliest. At first, X-ray or CT scan may help to identify the cause and type of the chest pain. Further, an E.C.G. provides the details of the exact problem which the patient is experiencing. Based on the outcome, the doctor may give further recommendations.
Hence, it is better to treat chest pain at the initial stage itself. This will help in the prevention of other heart diseases which are quite severe & may require surgery.
TREATMENT FOR CHEST PAIN
There are a lot of symptoms of problems related to heart diseases. One of the most common symptoms is chest pain, which needs immediate attention. It can happen due to various reasons like heart attack, oesophageal rupture, cardiac tamponade, etc.
Majority of the above causes of chest pain can be detected by various medical check-ups and tests. From the results obtained from the tests, appropriate treatment is to be given.
If the chest pain is severe and unbearable, it is advised to immediately admit the patient to the hospital, keep him under observation and take up E.C.G.s from time to time. The most important thing is the careful & detailed physical examination of the patient, with a view to check if the case is a minor one or if it is severe.
In treating chest pain, study of parameters like tobacco consumption, habits like drinking and smoking, existing diseases like diabetes, rigid eating habits, etc. play a very important part in giving the correct treatment to the patient at the right time.
Some of the common symptoms of chest pain are sweating, palpitations, nausea, dizziness, etc. Besides these, some patients may feel heaviness and shortness of breath. Some patients may feel the spreading of the chest pain in surrounding areas like the neck, left arm or jaw.
Based on the above symptoms, appropriate medical tests are carried out at the earliest. At first, X-ray or CT scan may help to identify the cause and type of the chest pain. Further, an E.C.G. provides the details of the exact problem which the patient is experiencing. Based on the outcome, the doctor may give further recommendations.
Hence, it is better to treat chest pain at the initial stage itself. This will help in the prevention of other heart diseases which are quite severe & may require surgery.
Side Effects of Life Saving Treatment Called the Angioplasty
Many people suffer coronary diseases and opt for medical treatments like the angioplasty to remove the plaque accumulated in the coronary blood vessels. The procedure of angioplasty involves slight pain and discomfort during the treatment. However, some of the patients suffer some side effects of this medical treatment.
Angioplasty treatment is not a permanent solution to keep the arteries unblocked for a long time so the patient might need the whole procedure repeated many times or find the need to have stent inserted in the vessels to keep them unblocked. This is advantageous to the patients for reducing the risk of heart damage in case of an attack. The stent used for angioplasty also contains the risk of forming blood clot in it and become a reason of heart attack itself.
The duration of the procedure and recovery time may vary from patient to patient. Usually the doctor decides for the incision on the leg or arm for the insertion process. The biggest risk involved in this procedure is the rupturing or bursting of the vessel carrying blood that might lead to heart attack. The patient can suffer kidney problems, abnormal heartbeat, and restenosis. Many patients also have complaints of urine blockage and presence of blood in the urine. Other side effects include the drainage from the insertion site, infection, and severe pain after the procedure ends. Elderly patients and women are more prone to develop side effects due to this procedure as compared to men. However, angioplasty is an affordable treatment and its adverse effects are curable with proper care and treatment.
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