Is there any connection between heart and brain?

Your heart and your brain are more intricately connected than you may realize. Brain signals the heart to pump its oxygen-rich blood through autonomic nervous system, and heart responds by delivering blood to the entire body, including to brain. If brain does not receive enough oxygen from the heart, you may experience symptoms ranging from fuzzy thinking to a life-threatening stroke. When blood flow to the brain is interrupted or blocked by a blood clot or plaque that has broken away from an artery or valve and is floating in the bloodstream leads to stroke. The lack of oxygen can cause brain cells to die, leading to symptoms of dementia, disabilities, or even death. The major step to the heart is also ways to protect brain. The steps to prevent from the stroke: Managing your blood pressure is especially important, because high blood pressure is the leading cause of stroke. It also may cause tiny lesions in the brain that can slow your thinking and progress to a loss of brain function in the future.

Steps to Take during Heart Surgery: When your Heart Surgery includes the value replacement, it is all the more important to consider ways to protect your brain. Valve replacement procedures, such as transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), can be lifesaving interventions. It will correct restricted blood flow caused by a narrowing or obstruction of the heart valve. However, during valve replacement, small particles of debris can break loose and find their way into the blood vessels of the brain.

What is good for the heart is good for the brain. Understanding the unique relationship between the heart and brain, and taking steps to protect both of these vital organs throughout life, is important for lifelong health.

Sports Cardiology

The athlete management is complex and requires a concerted collaboration among nutritionists, coaches, exercise physiologists, physicians, nurses, physical educators, and psychologists, among others. For the best interest of the athlete physician is expected to pursue medical decisions. The coach who is responsible of decision making requires the input of a multidisciplinary team, the athlete, and family. The physician’s role starts with pre-participation screening (history, physical examination, and testing as needed) , as well as deciding on immediate participation or return to play; involvement in the elaboration of policies promoting wellness of athletes; and supervision of exercise intensification in cardiac rehabilitation, promoting prevention and management of sudden cardiac death in athletes, maximizing cardiovascular performance without the use of drugs for Performance enhancing, and ensuring the safety of sports arena (e.g., availability of automated external defibrillators).

The sports medicine includes not only competitive athletes but also anyone who exercises (amateur or professionals). Although sports can confer the fitness to athletes, there is a risk of sports-related sudden cardiac death. The tragic death of athlete leads to negative response amoung society and media, although the general benefits of exercise outweigh the risk. Commonly, sudden cardiac death is triggered by a ventricular fibrillation (VF) or ventricular tachycardia degenerating into VF(malignant tachyarrhythmia). The hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, channelopathies, arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, or coronary congenital abnormalities, among others are typically an underlying substrate for arrhythmia trigger.

Sports Cardiology has attained clinical and research advances in cardiac imaging, electrophysiology and exercise physiology to enable better diagnostic and therapeutic management of our patients. One recent advancement has been to try and better differentiate athletic cardiac remodelling from inherited cardiomyopathies and other pathologies.