Diseases of the heart and blood vessels (cardiology)

Low pressure

Low blood pressure, otherwise called hypotension, is not usually a long-term illness. For a certain part of the population, low blood pressure is the norm, and if it does not cause any inconvenience, then there is nothing to worry about, it's just the individual characteristics of your body.

Eisenmenger syndrome

Eisenmenger syndrome is a complication of uncorrected heart defects, in which there is a discharge of blood from left to right. Often over time, the increase in vascular resistance in the lungs, causing a change in the direction of discharge to the right. Non-oxygenated blood enters a large circle of blood circulation, leading to the appearance of symptoms of hypoxia.

Myocardial ruptures: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

The frequency of ruptures of the free wall of the left ventricle with myocardial infarction is from 1% to 4%, this is the second cause of death in hospital patients (after cardiogenic shock), and at dissection, heart breaks in the free wall are revealed in 10-20% of deaths.

Cardiogenic shock

Cardiogenic shock is the leading cause of death for patients with myocardial infarction in the hospital. In 50% of patients, cardiogenic shock develops within the first day of myocardial infarction, in 10% in the prehospital stage and in 90% in the hospital.

Painless myocardial ischemia

In patients with angina pectoris and / or spontaneous angina pectoris (including unstable angina) up to 50-75% of episodes of myocardial ischemia are painless (asymptomatic, "mute").

Acute Coronary Syndrome

In recent years, the term "acute coronary syndrome (ACS)." The acute coronary syndrome includes acute variants of IHD: unstable angina (NS) and myocardial infarction (MI).

Unstable Angina

Unstable angina is regarded as an extremely dangerous stage of exacerbation of coronary heart disease, threatening the development of myocardial infarction or sudden death. In terms of clinical manifestations and prognostic value, unstable angina takes an intermediate place between stable angina and acute myocardial infarction, but, unlike a heart attack, the degree and duration of ischemia are not sufficient for the development of myocardial necrosis in unstable angina.

Ischemic heart disease: treatment

First of all, it is necessary to explain to the patient the essence of his illness, the influence of the main medical measures, especially the importance of changing the way of life.

Ischemic Heart Disease: Diagnosis

A reliable diagnosis of IHD based on questioning, history and physical examination is possible only in patients with classical angina or with documented myocardial infarction with a Q-wave in the anamnesis (postinfarction cardiosclerosis).

Ischemic heart disease: symptoms

In accordance with the modern classification of IHD, there are two main variants of myocardial infarction: myocardial infarction with Q-wave (synonyms: large-focal, transmural) and myocardial infarction without Q wave (synonyms: fine-focal, nontransmural, subendocardial, intramural).

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