TREATMENT OF HEART FAILURE .
MEDICATIONS .
Doctors usually treat heart failure with a combination of drugs. Depending on your symptoms, you may take one or more of these drugs.
Beta-blockers .This class of drugs slows the heart rate and lowers blood pressure. Examples include carvedilol (Coreg), metoprolol (Lopressor) and bisoprolol (Zebeta). These drugs also reduce the number of cardiac arrhythmias. Beta-blockers can reduce symptoms and symptoms of heart failure and improve cardiac function.
Diuretics. Often called water pills, diuretics make you urinate more frequently and keep fluid in your body. Commonly prescribed diuretics for heart failure include bumetanide (Bumex) and furosemide (Lasix). The drugs also decrease fluid in the lungs, so you can breathe more easily. Because diuretics cause loss of potassium and magnesium, your doctor may also prescribe supplements of these minerals. If you take a diuretic, your doctor should monitor levels of potassium and magnesium in the blood by regular blood tests.
Aldosterone antagonists. These drugs include spironolactone (Aldactone) and eplerenone (Inspra). They are primarily potassium-sparing diuretics, but they have additional properties that help the heart work better, may reverse scarring of the heart and can help people with severe heart failure live longer. Unlike some other diuretics, spironolactone can raise blood potassium to dangerous levels, talk to your doctor if increased potassium is a problem.
You will probably have to take two or more medications to treat heart failure. Your doctor may prescribe medication for the heart as others - such as nitrates for chest pain, a statin cholesterol-lowering drugs or anticoagulants to help prevent blood clots - drugs with cardiac failure.
SURGERY .
In some cases, heart failure can be treated with surgery, such as valve replacement or repair, coronary bypass surgery or transplantation.
Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG or "cabbage") or angioplasty to prevent and treat heart failure caused by blocked arteries. During bypass surgery, blood vessels taken from another part of the body -- usually the leg -- are used to link the open parts of a blocked artery around the blockage.
In angioplasty, a thin flexible tube, called a catheter is inserted through a small incision in the groin or neck vein. A procedure, a balloon catheter has reached the middle of the blocked blood vessel. When the balloon is filled, jam packed material back against the artery walls. A metal device, called a stent can be inserted through the catheter, a permanent barrier to act as a plate packed. In the second procedure, the tools available through the catheter to remove plaque.
Fixation, pacemakers and other devices, such as artificial heart valves .
Repair congenital heart defects.
Surgical treatment of heart failure itself, include:
Heart transplantation - Although the heart may be the best option for patients with more severe types of heart failure, this treatment is only available for a limited number of people for lack of hearts donors. Recent developments may make an artificial heart transplant option in the future.
Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) - can be implanted in the chest to increase your heart pumping action. Until recently, LVADs require that the patient is connected to a large hospital-console waiting for a transplant. Miniature battery-powered LVAD units, however, many patients can leave hospital. The devices can be used for primary treatment or as a bridge between a heart transplant in adults.
Heart Reconstruction - The electrical signals that cause the heart to contract around the spiral. Ideally, the heart is elliptical, like a soccer ball, for it is easier to receive the electrical signals that trigger the heartbeat. In heart failure, the heart becomes more spherical and becomes more like a basketball, which is more " unique " wiring diagram and makes the heart less efficient. A number of surgical procedures are promising for the study of this problem by reconstructing parts of the heart to restore its shape.
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Treatment of heart failure
Lifestyle changes
MEDICATIONS .
Doctors usually treat heart failure with a combination of drugs. Depending on your symptoms, you may take one or more of these drugs.
These include :
Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE). These medicines help people with heart failure live longer and feel better. ACE inhibitors are a type of vasodilator, a drug that widens blood vessels to lower blood pressure, improve circulation and reduce the workload of the heart. Examples include enalapril (Vasotec), lisinopril (Prinivil, Zestril) and captopril (Capoten).
Angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs). These drugs, which include losartan (Cozaar) and valsartan (Diovan), have many advantages such as ACE inhibitors. They can be an alternative for people who can not tolerate ACE inhibitors.
Digoxin (Lanoxin). This drug, also known as digitalis, more power to muscle contractions of the heart. It also tends to slow the heart rate. Digoxin reduces symptoms of heart failure and improve your ability to live in condition.
Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE). These medicines help people with heart failure live longer and feel better. ACE inhibitors are a type of vasodilator, a drug that widens blood vessels to lower blood pressure, improve circulation and reduce the workload of the heart. Examples include enalapril (Vasotec), lisinopril (Prinivil, Zestril) and captopril (Capoten).
Angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs). These drugs, which include losartan (Cozaar) and valsartan (Diovan), have many advantages such as ACE inhibitors. They can be an alternative for people who can not tolerate ACE inhibitors.
Digoxin (Lanoxin). This drug, also known as digitalis, more power to muscle contractions of the heart. It also tends to slow the heart rate. Digoxin reduces symptoms of heart failure and improve your ability to live in condition.
Beta-blockers .This class of drugs slows the heart rate and lowers blood pressure. Examples include carvedilol (Coreg), metoprolol (Lopressor) and bisoprolol (Zebeta). These drugs also reduce the number of cardiac arrhythmias. Beta-blockers can reduce symptoms and symptoms of heart failure and improve cardiac function.
Diuretics. Often called water pills, diuretics make you urinate more frequently and keep fluid in your body. Commonly prescribed diuretics for heart failure include bumetanide (Bumex) and furosemide (Lasix). The drugs also decrease fluid in the lungs, so you can breathe more easily. Because diuretics cause loss of potassium and magnesium, your doctor may also prescribe supplements of these minerals. If you take a diuretic, your doctor should monitor levels of potassium and magnesium in the blood by regular blood tests.
Aldosterone antagonists. These drugs include spironolactone (Aldactone) and eplerenone (Inspra). They are primarily potassium-sparing diuretics, but they have additional properties that help the heart work better, may reverse scarring of the heart and can help people with severe heart failure live longer. Unlike some other diuretics, spironolactone can raise blood potassium to dangerous levels, talk to your doctor if increased potassium is a problem.
You will probably have to take two or more medications to treat heart failure. Your doctor may prescribe medication for the heart as others - such as nitrates for chest pain, a statin cholesterol-lowering drugs or anticoagulants to help prevent blood clots - drugs with cardiac failure.
SURGERY .
In some cases, heart failure can be treated with surgery, such as valve replacement or repair, coronary bypass surgery or transplantation.
Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG or "cabbage") or angioplasty to prevent and treat heart failure caused by blocked arteries. During bypass surgery, blood vessels taken from another part of the body -- usually the leg -- are used to link the open parts of a blocked artery around the blockage.
In angioplasty, a thin flexible tube, called a catheter is inserted through a small incision in the groin or neck vein. A procedure, a balloon catheter has reached the middle of the blocked blood vessel. When the balloon is filled, jam packed material back against the artery walls. A metal device, called a stent can be inserted through the catheter, a permanent barrier to act as a plate packed. In the second procedure, the tools available through the catheter to remove plaque.
Fixation, pacemakers and other devices, such as artificial heart valves .
Repair congenital heart defects.
Surgical treatment of heart failure itself, include:
Heart transplantation - Although the heart may be the best option for patients with more severe types of heart failure, this treatment is only available for a limited number of people for lack of hearts donors. Recent developments may make an artificial heart transplant option in the future.
Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) - can be implanted in the chest to increase your heart pumping action. Until recently, LVADs require that the patient is connected to a large hospital-console waiting for a transplant. Miniature battery-powered LVAD units, however, many patients can leave hospital. The devices can be used for primary treatment or as a bridge between a heart transplant in adults.
Heart Reconstruction - The electrical signals that cause the heart to contract around the spiral. Ideally, the heart is elliptical, like a soccer ball, for it is easier to receive the electrical signals that trigger the heartbeat. In heart failure, the heart becomes more spherical and becomes more like a basketball, which is more " unique " wiring diagram and makes the heart less efficient. A number of surgical procedures are promising for the study of this problem by reconstructing parts of the heart to restore its shape.
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Treatment of heart failure
Lifestyle changes
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