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Diseases of the heart and blood vessels (cardiology)

Prognosis for dilated cardiomyopathy

In general, the prognosis of dilated cardiomyopathy is pessimistic: up to 70% of patients die in the period up to 5 years; approximately 50% of deaths are sudden and result from malignant arrhythmia or embolism.

Symptoms of mitral valve prolapse

In most patients, the symptoms of mitral valve prolapse are absent, are asymptomatic. In the presence of complaints, the clinical picture of uncomplicated mitral valve prolapse is determined by symptoms of autonomic nervous system dysfunction.

Causes of mitral valve prolapse

Depending on the cause, the primary prolapse of the mitral valve (idiopathic, hereditary, congenital) is isolated, which is an independent pathology that is not associated with any disease and is caused by genetic or congenital insufficiency of the connective tissue.

Chronic pericarditis

Chronic pericarditis is an inflammatory disease of the pericardium lasting more than 6 months, arising as primary-chronic processes or as a result of chronic or recurrent course of acute pericarditis; include exudative, adhesive, exudative-constrictive and constrictive forms.

Treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy

The main goals of treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy: correction of chronic heart failure, the timely appointment of anticoagulants and disaggregants for the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic complications in the case of atrial fibrillation, the treatment of arrhythmias, including life threatening, improving the quality of life, increasing the life expectancy of the patient.

Acute pericarditis

Acute pericarditis is an acute inflammation of the visceral and parietal pericardial sheets (both with pericardial effusion and without it) of various etiologies. Acute pericarditis can be an independent disease or a manifestation of systemic disease.

Myocarditis

Myocarditis is a focal or diffuse inflammation of the heart muscle as a result of various infections, toxins, medications or immunological reactions that lead to damage to cardiomyocytes and the development of cardiac dysfunction.

Aortic insufficiency: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Aortic insufficiency can be caused either by a primary lesion of the aortic valve flaps or by aortic root damage, which now accounts for more than 50% of all cases of isolated aortic insufficiency.

Combined mitral defect

The combination of two types of defect (stenosis and insufficiency) of one heart valve is denoted by the term "combined defect" of the mitral or aortic valve.

Treatment of arteriovenous malformations

On the one hand, to answer the question of which method to treat arteriovenous malformation is quite simple, since only the surgical method allows to relieve the patient from the AVM itself and from those complications to which it leads.

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