Heart failure and what you should knowWhat is heart failure?Heart failure is a heart condition did not dump enough amount of blood (which contains oxygen and nutrients) to feed the body. This is the result of a weakened heart's squeeze power (heart failure Center for currency) or a collapsed heart bloom (heart failure Center Zhang).Heart failure is a syndrome rather than pathologies of heart failure, it is the result of a physical illness would it take to. So when you have signs of heart failure, the disease that's also in severe stages.The signs you need to think of heart failure.• When you feel more tired, especially the mau the daily living activities such as floor or lift up a job that you feel normal.• You can not lay low head to sleep even though before you sleep very well with this posture. Sometimes you have these bouts of shortness of breath at night and like to sit up to breathe.• You can accommodate the legs (edema and concave the foot, instep, ankle ...), can be included in the neck vein rise markedly.Shortness of breath: You feel his breathing fast, hurried over, more shallow, occur frequently or when exertionHO: A little less symptoms and not be noticed by the heart failure is prolonged dry cough, cough often weighed up when lying.Tired: people with heart failure often complain of fatigue and can not exertion. In addition patients often have signs of enhanced sympathetic nervous as the first cold, sweat profusely.Pain lower right flank: the patients right heart failure may experience pain in the lower right ribs due to blood stasis in the liver.Gastrointestinal signs: sick people don't feel like eating anything, nausea due to line the intestines and gastrointestinal blood irrigation reduced ...The tests used for screening and diagnosis of heart failure.Until now no single test would be sure to diagnose heart failure, doctors will incorporate signs and symptoms with some tests to conclude that you have suffered from heart failure or not.1. Electrocardiogram: few signs help suggest the large heart Chamber, tachycardia, Taiwan beat (fibrillation, Center of foreign currency ...), the lack of a heart attack or myocardial infarction.2. Radiology lung heart heart ball large images: straight or lung blood stasis is the sign suggests more heart failure. Lungs.3. heart ultrasound: this test helps evaluate the heart contractions also good or not (ejection: EF), tim has a flexible interior thick or not, may help find the cause of heart failure (heart muscle disease anemia due to coronary artery lesions, heart valve disease, congenital heart disease, etc.).4. Blood tests:NT-proBNP concentration measured in the blood to help early diagnosis of heart failure are valuable, however this test is currently not yet widely done.How many modes of treatment of heart failure?1-do not use the medication:-Do not try, or play the sport.-Should not eat salty (more salt than 2 g/day, or eat more often on the LAT).-Avoid the anxiety, prolonged stress.2-use of drugs:-Is the method required for most patients because these drugs help improve the patient's quality of life, increase the exertion, decreased hospitalizations and prolonged life.3. Re: heart synchronicity is a method of placing electrodes into the right heart Chamber and coronary sinus heart help heart stimulation, have the effect of reducing symptoms, improve heart function and reduce the infant mortality rate.4. rhythm machine-Implanted Defibrillator: method is applied to people who have irregular and who are at risk of sudden death.5. Cardiac Catheterization: nong and coronary stenting were narrow or obstructed.6. heart surgery: surgical treatment of the cause as cardiac valve replacement surgery if the heart valve disease, congenital heart tune surgery, coronary artery bridge surgery for heart disease anemia and myocardial infarction, cardiac muscle stripping surgery for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.• Heart transplant surgery is the last resort for patients with end-stage heart failure.The note of the patient during the treatment of heart failure.-Comply with the treatment of heart failure by the doctor. Do not arbitrarily use prescription or treatment because of you many thanks to better treatment does not mean that you have run out of the disease.-During the treatment if you feel more tired, difficulty breathing, more then should see your doctor right away without waiting until the end.-Should the daily weight, blood pressure, urine amount daily tracking to report doctors adjust medication.How to prevent heart failure?1. Need to see a doctor when a sore throat because it is the cause of heart valve disease due to low heart in children. When there is pain, swelling of the joints need to doctor to verify the cause of joint pain to good treatment of rheumatism.2. for patients with heart valve disease, congenital heart was badly in need of early intervention to avoid heart failure later.3. for older patients have high blood pressure, diabetes, anemia the heart muscle needs treatment and follow-up intervals to avoid the progression of heart failure.4. Older people should go check your heart, echocardiography and x-ray lung heart straight to screening and early detection of causes of heart failure.
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