Cardiomegaly
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Cardiomegaly refers to an enlarged heart and can be caused by conditions that weaken the heart muscle like heart attacks or abnormal heart rhythms. Symptoms include shortness of breath, arrhythmias, and swelling. An enlarged heart can lead to complications like heart failure, blood clots, murmurs, and cardiac arrest. Diagnosis and treatments may involve medications like diuretics, ACE inhibitors, and beta blockers, or surgeries.
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Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle where it loses its ability to pump blood effectively. The main types are dilated, hypertrophic, and restrictive cardiomyopathy. Dilated cardiomyopathy is the most common type and causes the heart to become enlarged and weakened. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy causes thickening of the heart muscle. Restrictive cardiomyopathy stiffens the heart and impairs its ability to fill with blood. Diagnostic tests include echocardiograms, electrocardiograms, and cardiac catheterization. Treatment involves medications, device implantation, or transplantation depending on severity.
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Cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy is a group of diseases that affect the heart muscle and cause it to enlarge and stiffen. It is often hereditary. The main types are dilated, hypertrophic, restrictive, and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Symptoms of heart failure often occur as the condition worsens and weakens the heart. Treatment depends on severity but may include medications, surgery like implantable devices or transplant, or lifestyle changes. Family history and other conditions increasing risk. Diagnosis involves medical history, exams, and tests like ECG, echocardiogram, or stress test.
Cardiac tamponade
Cardiac tamponade is a serious medical condition where blood or fluid fills the space between the sac surrounding the heart (pericardium), putting extreme pressure on the heart and preventing it from filling with blood properly. This can lead to organ failure, shock, and even death if not treated. Causes include infectious diseases, malignancies, anticoagulation medications, and connective tissue diseases. Symptoms include chest pain, difficulty breathing, fainting, and pale/gray skin color. Diagnosis involves physical exam, imaging like echocardiograms, and lab tests. Treatment consists of oxygen, fluids, medications, and procedures to drain excess fluid from the pericardial space.
Cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle where the heart loses its ability to pump blood effectively. There are three main types: dilated cardiomyopathy where the heart chambers enlarge over time and the heart weakens; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy where the heart muscle thickens abnormally; and restrictive cardiomyopathy where the ventricles become stiff. Symptoms include fatigue, edema, arrhythmias, and heart failure. Diagnosis involves tests like echocardiograms, EKGs and cardiac catheterization. Treatments focus on managing symptoms, slowing disease progression, and reducing complications through medications, lifestyle changes, surgery like septal myectomy, or heart transplant in severe cases.
Cardiomegaly
Cardiomegaly is an enlarged heart, identified by a cardiothoracic ratio greater than 0.5. It can be caused by increased workload on the heart from thickened heart muscles, viral illness, heart attacks, inflammation, drug abuse, or hypertension. Signs include breathlessness, dizziness, rapid pulse changes, leg swelling, and abdominal fluid. Treatments include diuretics, ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, and nitrates. While exercise is not recommended for all cases due to risk of cardiac arrest, EKG screening of athletes can help prevent sudden death.
Cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy refers to diseases of the heart muscle that weaken the heart's ability to pump blood effectively. The three main types are dilated, hypertrophic, and restrictive cardiomyopathy. Dilated cardiomyopathy causes the left ventricle to enlarge and weaken, impairing its ability to pump blood. Causes include viral infections, toxins, genetic factors, and hypertension. Symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, and fluid retention. Diagnosis involves echocardiograms, electrocardiograms, and cardiac catheterization. Treatment focuses on managing symptoms through medications, lifestyle changes, and potentially surgery or transplantation.
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Cardiomyopathy is a disease that weakens and enlarges the heart muscle, making it difficult for the heart to pump blood. There are several types including dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and restrictive cardiomyopathy. Symptoms include shortness of breath, fatigue, chest pain, and leg swelling. Diagnosis involves echocardiogram, ECG, blood tests, and cardiac catheterization. Treatment focuses on medications to improve heart function, device implantation like pacemakers, and potentially transplantation for severe cases. Nursing care emphasizes rest, diet, medication management, and health education.
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Aortic anurysm
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Cardiac tamponade
Cardiac tamponade is a serious medical condition where blood or fluid fills the space between the sac surrounding the heart (pericardium), putting extreme pressure on the heart and preventing it from filling with blood properly. This can lead to organ failure, shock, and even death if not treated. Causes include infectious diseases, malignancies, anticoagulation medications, and connective tissue diseases. Symptoms include chest pain, difficulty breathing, fainting, and pale/gray skin color. Diagnosis involves physical exam, imaging like echocardiograms, and lab tests. Treatment consists of oxygen, fluids, medications, and procedures to drain excess fluid from the pericardial space.
Cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle where the heart loses its ability to pump blood effectively. There are three main types: dilated cardiomyopathy where the heart chambers enlarge over time and the heart weakens; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy where the heart muscle thickens abnormally; and restrictive cardiomyopathy where the ventricles become stiff. Symptoms include fatigue, edema, arrhythmias, and heart failure. Diagnosis involves tests like echocardiograms, EKGs and cardiac catheterization. Treatments focus on managing symptoms, slowing disease progression, and reducing complications through medications, lifestyle changes, surgery like septal myectomy, or heart transplant in severe cases.
Cardiomegaly
Cardiomegaly is an enlarged heart, identified by a cardiothoracic ratio greater than 0.5. It can be caused by increased workload on the heart from thickened heart muscles, viral illness, heart attacks, inflammation, drug abuse, or hypertension. Signs include breathlessness, dizziness, rapid pulse changes, leg swelling, and abdominal fluid. Treatments include diuretics, ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, and nitrates. While exercise is not recommended for all cases due to risk of cardiac arrest, EKG screening of athletes can help prevent sudden death.
Cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy refers to diseases of the heart muscle that weaken the heart's ability to pump blood effectively. The three main types are dilated, hypertrophic, and restrictive cardiomyopathy. Dilated cardiomyopathy causes the left ventricle to enlarge and weaken, impairing its ability to pump blood. Causes include viral infections, toxins, genetic factors, and hypertension. Symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, and fluid retention. Diagnosis involves echocardiograms, electrocardiograms, and cardiac catheterization. Treatment focuses on managing symptoms through medications, lifestyle changes, and potentially surgery or transplantation.
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Cardiomyopathy is a disease that weakens and enlarges the heart muscle, making it difficult for the heart to pump blood. There are several types including dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and restrictive cardiomyopathy. Symptoms include shortness of breath, fatigue, chest pain, and leg swelling. Diagnosis involves echocardiogram, ECG, blood tests, and cardiac catheterization. Treatment focuses on medications to improve heart function, device implantation like pacemakers, and potentially transplantation for severe cases. Nursing care emphasizes rest, diet, medication management, and health education.
Restrictive cardiomyopathy
Restrictive cardiomyopathy is characterized by stiff ventricles that do not fill properly, though systolic function is usually preserved initially. It can be caused by infiltrative diseases, fibrosis, or other processes that restrict ventricular filling. On echocardiogram, restrictive cardiomyopathy shows impaired ventricular filling and enlarged atria, while cardiac catheterization reveals elevated diastolic pressures and a distinctive "square root sign" pressure tracing. Treatment focuses on managing symptoms and underlying causes if identifiable, though prognosis is often poor without transplantation.
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Cardiomegaly is a condition where the heart is enlarged. It can be caused by conditions that make the heart work harder like high blood pressure, heart disease, or heart valve problems. Symptoms include shortness of breath, fatigue, chest pain, and swelling. Diagnosis involves tests like chest x-rays, echocardiograms, and blood tests. Treatment may include medications to reduce blood pressure and swelling, surgery, lifestyle changes, and sometimes a heart transplant for severe cases.
Myocardial infarction
1. Myocardial infarction, also known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow to part of the heart is blocked, damaging heart muscle.
2. It is usually caused by a buildup of fatty plaques in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart. When a plaque ruptures, a blood clot forms that blocks one of the arteries.
3. Symptoms of a heart attack include chest pain or discomfort that may travel to the arm, shoulder, or jaw. Early treatment is critical to reduce damage to the heart.
Cardiac tamponade
Cardiac tamponade is a serious medical condition caused by fluid accumulating in the pericardial sac surrounding the heart, putting pressure on the heart and preventing it from filling properly. Symptoms include chest pain, difficulty breathing, and low blood pressure. Diagnosis involves echocardiogram, electrocardiogram, chest x-ray or CT scan. Treatment is pericardiocentesis to drain the fluid via needle, with careful monitoring of vital signs.
Pericarditis
The document discusses pericarditis, which is inflammation of the pericardium surrounding the heart. It describes what causes pericarditis, the symptoms, diagnostic tests used to identify it, and treatments that may be given including medications like NSAIDs, colchicine, and corticosteroids or procedures like pericardiocentesis if fluid needs to be drained from around the heart. Pericarditis can range from mild and self-limiting to life-threatening in some cases if not properly diagnosed and treated.
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Dilated cardiomyopathy
Dilated cardiomyopathy is defined as dilatation and impaired contraction of the left ventricle not caused by ischemic or valvular heart disease. The document discusses the epidemiology, etiology, pathology, genetics, clinical features, diagnosis, and management of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Key points include:
- The annual incidence is 5-8 per 100,000 people with increased risk in males, blacks, and those with hypertension or chronic beta-agonist use.
- Causes include genetic mutations, viral infections, autoimmune diseases, and drugs. Pathology shows dilatation, myocyte hypertrophy and death, and extracellular matrix remodeling.
- Diagnosis involves ECG
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Aortic stenosis
1) Aortic stenosis is a chronic progressive disease that causes obstruction to left ventricular emptying, leading to symptoms like chest pain, breathlessness, syncope, and fatigue.
2) It is commonly caused by calcific aortic valvular disease in elderly patients or a bicuspid aortic valve. Other potential causes include rheumatic fever and familial hypercholesterolemia.
3) The pathophysiology involves increased left ventricular pressure and hypertrophy due to the obstruction, which can lead to ischemia, arrhythmias, and heart failure over time if left untreated. Symptomatic patients require aortic valve replacement.
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Pulmonary edema
Pulmonary edema is fluid accumulation in the lungs caused by fluid leaking from blood vessels into the lungs. It can be cardiogenic (caused by heart problems increasing blood pressure in the lungs) or non-cardiogenic. Symptoms include shortness of breath, cough, and cyanosis. Diagnosis involves chest x-ray, echocardiogram, and measuring wedge pressure. Treatment focuses on reducing preload on the heart, lowering afterload, and providing supportive care like oxygen. Outcomes depend on the underlying cause but most cardiogenic cases resolve within 3 days with medical management.
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Restrictive cardiomyopathy
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Cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy is a group of diseases that weaken and enlarge the heart muscle, making it harder for the heart to pump blood to the rest of the body. There are three main types: dilated cardiomyopathy which causes the heart chambers to enlarge and the heart walls to thin; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy where the heart muscle becomes abnormally thick; and restrictive cardiomyopathy which causes the heart muscles to stiffen. Symptoms vary depending on the type but can include fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, and heart palpitations. Diagnosis involves echocardiograms, electrocardiograms, and cardiac imaging to examine the structure and function of the heart. Treatment may include medications, medical devices, and
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Cardiomyopathy refers to diseases of the heart muscle that weaken the heart's ability to pump blood effectively. The main types are dilated, hypertrophic, and restrictive cardiomyopathy. Dilated cardiomyopathy involves enlargement and weakening of the heart chambers. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy causes abnormal thickening of the heart muscle. Restrictive cardiomyopathy results in stiffening and rigidity of the heart ventricles. Cardiomyopathy can cause symptoms like fatigue, edema, and shortness of breath as the heart becomes weaker and less able to pump blood. Treatment focuses on managing symptoms, stopping disease progression, and reducing complications through medications, device therapies, and possibly surgery or transplant.
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Cardiomegaly is a condition where the heart is enlarged. It can be caused by conditions that make the heart work harder like high blood pressure, heart disease, or heart valve problems. Symptoms include shortness of breath, fatigue, chest pain, and swelling. Diagnosis involves tests like chest x-rays, echocardiograms, and blood tests. Treatment may include medications to reduce blood pressure and swelling, surgery, lifestyle changes, and sometimes a heart transplant for severe cases.
Myocardial infarction
1. Myocardial infarction, also known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow to part of the heart is blocked, damaging heart muscle.
2. It is usually caused by a buildup of fatty plaques in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart. When a plaque ruptures, a blood clot forms that blocks one of the arteries.
3. Symptoms of a heart attack include chest pain or discomfort that may travel to the arm, shoulder, or jaw. Early treatment is critical to reduce damage to the heart.
Cardiac tamponade
Cardiac tamponade is a serious medical condition caused by fluid accumulating in the pericardial sac surrounding the heart, putting pressure on the heart and preventing it from filling properly. Symptoms include chest pain, difficulty breathing, and low blood pressure. Diagnosis involves echocardiogram, electrocardiogram, chest x-ray or CT scan. Treatment is pericardiocentesis to drain the fluid via needle, with careful monitoring of vital signs.
Pericarditis
The document discusses pericarditis, which is inflammation of the pericardium surrounding the heart. It describes what causes pericarditis, the symptoms, diagnostic tests used to identify it, and treatments that may be given including medications like NSAIDs, colchicine, and corticosteroids or procedures like pericardiocentesis if fluid needs to be drained from around the heart. Pericarditis can range from mild and self-limiting to life-threatening in some cases if not properly diagnosed and treated.
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- The annual incidence is 5-8 per 100,000 people with increased risk in males, blacks, and those with hypertension or chronic beta-agonist use.
- Causes include genetic mutations, viral infections, autoimmune diseases, and drugs. Pathology shows dilatation, myocyte hypertrophy and death, and extracellular matrix remodeling.
- Diagnosis involves ECG
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Aortic stenosis
1) Aortic stenosis is a chronic progressive disease that causes obstruction to left ventricular emptying, leading to symptoms like chest pain, breathlessness, syncope, and fatigue.
2) It is commonly caused by calcific aortic valvular disease in elderly patients or a bicuspid aortic valve. Other potential causes include rheumatic fever and familial hypercholesterolemia.
3) The pathophysiology involves increased left ventricular pressure and hypertrophy due to the obstruction, which can lead to ischemia, arrhythmias, and heart failure over time if left untreated. Symptomatic patients require aortic valve replacement.
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Cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy, or heart muscle disease, is a type of progressive heart disease in which the heart is abnormally enlarged, thickened, and/or stiffened. As a result, the heart muscle's ability to pump blood is less efficient, often causing heart failure and the backup of blood into the lungs or rest of the body. The disease can also cause abnormal heart rhythms.
Pulmonary edema
Pulmonary edema is fluid accumulation in the lungs caused by fluid leaking from blood vessels into the lungs. It can be cardiogenic (caused by heart problems increasing blood pressure in the lungs) or non-cardiogenic. Symptoms include shortness of breath, cough, and cyanosis. Diagnosis involves chest x-ray, echocardiogram, and measuring wedge pressure. Treatment focuses on reducing preload on the heart, lowering afterload, and providing supportive care like oxygen. Outcomes depend on the underlying cause but most cardiogenic cases resolve within 3 days with medical management.
Aortic regurgitation
The document discusses the anatomy, causes, diagnosis, and management of aortic regurgitation (AR). It provides details on the location of the aortic valve, variants such as bicuspid aortic valve, and common causes of AR including rheumatic heart disease. Physical exam findings, echocardiography parameters, and indications for surgery to replace the aortic valve are summarized. Medical management including vasodilator therapy to reduce afterload is also reviewed.
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Electrolyte imbalances can cause cardiac arrhythmias by disrupting the normal ionic balance across cardiac cell membranes. Common electrolyte disorders include hyperkalemia, hypokalemia, hypocalcemia, hypercalcemia, hypomagnesemia, and hypermagnesemia. Each has distinct ECG patterns - for example, hyperkalemia causes tall peaked T waves while hypokalemia causes ST depression and flattened T waves. Treatment involves replacing the deficient electrolyte or removing excess electrolytes.
Pericarditis
Pericarditis is an inflammatory process of the pericardium caused by injury to pericardial cells. This leads to an accumulation of fluid, fibrin, and cells between the two layers of the pericardium, causing friction and pain. Clinical manifestations include sharp chest pain exacerbated by deep breathing that may radiate to the shoulders, as well as a pericardial friction rub heard on auscultation. Complications include arrhythmias, pericardial effusion, and cardiac tamponade. Treatment focuses on reducing inflammation and pain with NSAIDs.
Valvular heart disease
This document discusses various types of valvular heart disease, including causes, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, investigations, and management. It covers the main heart valves - mitral, aortic, tricuspid and pulmonary valves. The major types of valvular abnormalities discussed are stenosis (narrowing) and regurgitation (leakage). Specific valve diseases covered in detail include rheumatic mitral stenosis, mitral regurgitation, mitral valve prolapse, aortic stenosis, aortic regurgitation, tricuspid stenosis/regurgitation, and pulmonary stenosis/regurgitation. Surgical and medical management strategies are presented for each condition. Prosthetic heart valves, both mechanical and biological,
Restrictive cardiomyopathy
Restrictive cardiomyopathy is characterized by impaired ventricular filling during diastole due to a primary decrease in ventricular compliance. The myocardium is partially infiltrated by noncontractile tissue or extracellular material, impairing the heart's ability to dilate. Causes include amyloidosis, sarcoidosis, and idiopathic restrictive cardiomyopathy. On morphology, the ventricles are normally or slightly enlarged while the cavities are not dilated. The myocardium is firm and noncompliant, and the atria show biatrial dilation. Patients experience signs and symptoms of congestive heart failure with prominent right-sided features.
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- Pathologically, it involves increases in preload and afterload along with decreased contractility. The main types are based on output (low or high), the ventricles affected (left, right, or both), and systolic or diastolic dysfunction.
- Risk factors include hypertension, diabetes, and coronary artery disease
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Cardio pulmonary pathophysiology
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF CARDIOPULMONARY DISEASE
Three components of cardiac diseases
1- diseases affecting heart muscles
2- diseases affecting heart valves
3- defects of the cardiac nervous system
Disease affecting cardiac muscle
Coronary artery disease
Myocardial infarct
Pericarditis
Congestive heart failure
Aneurysm
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This document provides information on heart failure (CHF), including:
1) CHF is a clinical syndrome that results from any structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ventricle's ability to fill or eject blood.
2) The main mechanisms of CHF are increased blood volume, increased resistance to blood flow, decreased contractility, and decreased filling.
3) CHF can be compensated initially through mechanisms like the Frank-Starling mechanism and neurohormonal activation, but these can eventually worsen heart failure.
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- Systolic and diastolic heart failure refer to the ventricle's ability to contract or relax. Right and left ventricular failure affect blood flow to the lungs or body.
- Heart failure can be acute or chronic, high or low output, and cause blood to back up (backward) or tissues to receive less blood flow (forward).
- The types are distinguished by their effects on cardiac output and the parts of the circulatory system they impact.
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- 3. SOMESYMPTOMS ▪ Shortness of breath ▪ Abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia) ▪ Swelling(edema)
- 4. CAUSES ▪ Congenital ▪ Damagefrom a heart attack ▪ Abnormal heartbeat-arrhythmia
- 5. MECHANISM – working fibers of the myocardial tissue increase in size – actin and myosin filaments failto overlap – blood cannot be effectively pumped to the lungs to be re-oxygenated
- 6. Conditionsassociatedwith an enlarged heart include: ▪ High blood pressure ▪ Pericardial effusion ▪ Hemochromatosis-enlargedL.V ▪ Amyloidosis ▪ Heart valve disease
- 7. COMPLICATIONS ▪ Heart failure ▪ Blood clot ▪ Heart murmur ▪ Cardiac arrest
- 8. DIAGNOSIS
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