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Heart Disease

Shea Connor

Updated Feb. 23, 2016

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Heart Disease

Definition

Conditions that involve narrowed or blocked blood vessels that can lead to an heart attack, chest pain, or stroke. Other heart conditions that affect your heart's muscle, valves or rythm, are also considered forms of heart disease.

Facts

About 610,000 people die of heart disease in the U.S every year (1 in every 4 deaths)
Leading cause of death for men and women
Coronary heart disease is the most common type; it kills over 370,000 people yearly

Risk factors

Diabetes
Overweight or obesity
Poor diet
Physical inactivity
Excessive acohol use

Most common types

Coronary artery disease
High blood pressure
Cardiac arrest
Congestive heart failure
Arhthmia

Immediate treatment

Asprin to prevent further blood clotting
Oxygen therapy
Treatment for chest pain

Medical vocab breakdown

Medical procedures

Angioplasty

Angi/o: vessel (blood)
Plasty: surgical repair

Cardiomyoplasty

Cardi/o: heart
Myo: muscle
Plasty: surgical repair

cardiologist

Cardi/o: heart
Logist: specialist

Cardiac arrest:

Cardi/o: heart
Arrest: standstill

Atherectomy

Ather/o: plaque
Ectomy: removal

Angioplasty laser: laser tip that opens the blocked artery
Angioplasty: tubing inserted, will puff up to widen blocked areas where blood was cut off
Artificial heart valve surgery: replaces an abnormal or diseased heart valve with a healthy one.
Cardiomyoplasty: procedure where skeletal muscles are taken from a patient's back or abdomen. Then wrapped around an ailing heart. This added muscle is aided by ongoing stimulation from a device similar to a pacemaker, it boosts the heart's pumping motion.
Heart transplant: removes a diseased heart and replaces it with a healthy human heart
Atherectomy: similar to angioplasty except the catheter has a rotating shaver on its tip to cut away plaque from the artery

Types of doctors needed

General practitioner
Internist
Cardiologist
Cardiac electrophysiologist
Heart failure specialist
Cardiac surgeon

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