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This document provides an overview of chronic heart failure, including its definition, causes, symptoms, tests, treatments, and long-term management. Chronic heart failure is a condition where the heart is unable to pump sufficiently, and it is usually caused by conditions that damage the heart muscle such as heart attacks. Common symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, and ankle swelling. Tests like echocardiograms and blood tests are used to diagnose and classify the severity of heart failure. Treatments include lifestyle modifications, medications like ACE inhibitors and diuretics, and procedures such as cardiac resynchronization therapy. Long-term care involves managing issues like depression, end-of-life discussions, and palliative care.
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Heart failure is caused by conditions that weaken the heart muscle such as coronary artery disease and hypertension. The body compensates through mechanisms like the renin-angiotensin system which cause fluid retention, edema, and increased cardiac workload worsening the failure. Treatment goals include reducing preload and afterload through diuretics and vasodilators, improving oxygenation, and increasing contractility. Medications target neurohormonal activation through ACE inhibitors, ARBs, beta-blockers and aldosterone blockade. For severe cases, devices like ICDs, CRT, LVADs and transplantation are used. Lifestyle changes and treating the underlying cause are also important.
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Chronic heart failure
- 1. Dr.T SANDEEP PATIL Chronic Heart Failure
- 2. Definition of chronic heart failure • Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome of symptoms and signs that suggest impairment of the heart as a pump supporting physiological circulation. • It is caused by structural or functional abnormalities of the heart. • The demonstration of objective evidence of these cardiac abnormalities is necessary for the diagnosis of heart failure to be made.
- 3. Causes • Heart attack (Most common cause),which causes damage to the muscle of the left ventricle
- 4. Other possible causes • Coronary Artery Disease • Previous heart attack (which has left scar tissue that stops the heart muscle working normally) • Hypertension • Diseased or Damaged heart valves (can affect the flow of blood in the heart)
- 5. Other possible causes • Cardiomyopathy • Congenital heart defects • Endocarditis • Myocarditis • Unknown
- 6. Main Symptoms • Severe tiredness or fatigue • Dyspnoea • Swelling of the ankles These symptoms can also be caused by other conditions Tests to find out if you have heart failure or not Symptoms to classify the severity of heart failure
- 9. INVESTIGATIONS • BP • PR • ECG • BNP • EchoCardioGram
- 12. • X-ray Chest • Blood tests (S.electrolytes,Bl.Urea,S.Creatinine,eGFR,Thyroid Function Tests,Fasting Lipids,Fasing Glucose,Full Blood Count) • Urinalysis • Peak flow or spirometry
- 13. Treatment • Lifestyle modification • Drug treatment • Other treatments &Interventional Procedures • Monitoring
- 15. Drug Treatment • ACE inhibitors • Beta blockers • ARBs • Hydralazine • Nitrates • Aldosterone antagonists • Digoxin • Ivabradine • Diuretics
- 17. Other treatments • CPAP • Exercise training programme • Immunisation (Flu & Pneumococcal)
- 18. Interventional procedures • CRT • Cardiac transplantation • Preoperative(CABG) intra-aortic balloon counterpulsion • Sutureless aortic valve replacement for AS • Transcatheter aortic valve implantation for AS • Percutaneous mitral valve annuloplasty • Percutaneous mitral valve leaflet repair for MR • Short term circulatory support with left ventricular assist devices as a bridge to cardiac transplantation or recovery
- 19. Monitoring • Clinical review • Serum natriuretic peptides • Serum digoxin • Pulmonary artery pressure monitors
- 20. Lifestyle modification • Drink less alcohol • Stop smoking • Be physically more active • Cut down salt • Reduce your fluid intake • Watch your weight • Vaccination • Air Travel,Sexual activity & Driving • Avoid St.John wart,Cranberry juice & Grape juice
- 21. Long term care • Prognosis Discuss prognosis with patients and carers in a sensitive, open and honest manner • Anxiety and depression Consider a diagnosis of depression in patients with heart failure Carefully consider the risks and benefits of drug treatment for depression
- 22. Long term care • End of life Ensure that patients and carers have the opportunity at all stages of care to discuss issues of sudden death and living with uncertainty. Identify and manage palliative care needs as soon as possible
- 23. Palliative Care • Emotional support • Symptom management • Opportunity to discuss stop treatments If breathlessness is becoming very difficult low dose opioids may help Medication should be reviewed regularly and the decision to adjust or stop any treatments should be based on how effective the treatments are and how the pt. feels Pt.s have the right to refuse any medical treatment or request withdrawl of treatment including pacemakers and other ICDs
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