Showing posts with label Heart Surgery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heart Surgery. Show all posts

Friday, December 21, 2018

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.

Friday, November 23, 2018

Women and Heart Disease


Heart Diseases are faced in both men and women. But for Women symptoms and risk factor varies. If unique symptoms of women are understood, the risk of heart disease can be reduced. Most commonly observed heart attack symptoms for women. The usual one is of pain, pressure or discomfort in the chest rarely women may have heart attack without any symptom. The other symptoms unrelated to chest pain Neck, jaw, shoulder, upper back or abdominal discomfort, Shortness of breath, Pain in one or both arms, Nausea or vomiting, Sweating, Lightheadedness or dizziness and Unusual fatigue. The chest pain as pressure or a tightness because women tend to have blockages not only in their main arteries but also in the smaller arteries that supply blood to the heart — a condition called small vessel heart disease or coronary micro vascular disease

Heart disease risk factors for women: The traditional risk factors are high cholesterol, high blood pressure and obesity: Diabetes, Mental stress and depression, Smoking, Inactivity, Menopause, Broken heart syndrome, certain chemotherapy drugs and radiation therapy for cancer, Pregnancy complications. To reduce their risk of heart disease, Quit or don't start smoking, Exercise regularly, Maintain a healthy weight, Eat a healthy diet that includes whole grains, a variety of fruits and vegetables, low-fat or fat-free dairy products, and lean meats, and Avoid saturated or trans fat, added sugars, and high amounts of salt. The above mentioned factors reduce the condition for Heart Disease and Heart Surgery.
The Regular exercise, maintaining the body mass index (BMI) reduced the risk factors. For few women routine use of daily aspirin therapy to prevent heart disease in low-risk women younger than 65 years old isn't recommended by American Heart Association (AHA). The intake of aspirin without doctor recommendation is not welcomed.

Pediatric cardiology

There are number of  heart  conditions that can affect children. Few children have structural differences by birth others involve the ele...