Heart Disease Lecture for Engineering students of Burhanpur

1. Heart Diseases in Youth
Dr Ambrish Patel

2. For A college student
heart is like this

4. For a Heart
surgeon Heart
is like this

6. Why does it matter to me???
• In last 5 -6 years we have done more than
2000 cardiac surgeries
• And out of those 700 (almost 1/3rd ) people
were under 40 yrs of age
• There were more than 40 coronary bypass of
people less than 40 yrs of age
• One CABG was 27 years of age

7. Heart is a
machine which
never rests

10. Types Of Heart Disease
• From Birth
–Holes
–Tight Valves
–Wrong connections
• Later in Life
–Valve
–coronary

11. Hole in Heart

12. VSD

13. Tetralogy

14. PDA

17. Symptoms
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Difficulty in Breathing with Exertion
Easy fatiguabitity
Palpitations
Bluishness of Nails – picture of clubbing
Recurrent cough and cold

18. ECHO

19. Can we prevent Congenital / Valvular
Disease
• Sonography in pregnancy
• Don’t take routine cough cold lightly

20. Coronary
artery
Disease

27. Causes Of
Coronary
Artery Disease

35. Symptoms of coronary disease
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Difficulty in breathing on normal exertion.
Pain in chest, on exertion.
Pain in upper back, throat or left arm.
A feeling of tightness in chest along with
sweating.

36. How to Avoid
Heart Disease