What is heart failure

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My family has a history of familial cardiomyopathy. Unfortunately, I also got this disease. I have been treated for a period of time before, and it's not good. But recently, I often have chest tightness, shortness of breath and dyspnea. I don't know if it's heart failure. Share with you what heart failure is this common problem!

What is heart failure

First, heart failure, also known as "myocardial failure", means that the heart can not pump out the blood supply commensurate with venous return and body tissue metabolism at that time. Often caused by a variety of diseases, myocardial contractility is weakened, so that the blood output of the heart is reduced, not enough to meet the needs of the body, and thus produce a series of symptoms and signs.

Second, the etiological treatment of heart failure includes the treatment of basic heart disease and the prevention and control of its inducing factors. The general treatment of heart failure symptoms should be from reducing heart load, increasing cardiac output, and controlling sodium and water in the body. Yes, you'd better go to the hospital for examination and find out the cause before symptomatic treatment.

Third: heart failure is divided into left heart failure and right heart failure. The clinical manifestations of left heart failure include dyspnea (exertional dyspnea), sitting breathing (unable to lie down in the middle of the night and wake up suddenly because of suffocation), paroxysmal dyspnea at night, acute pulmonary edema, cough, expectoration, hemoptysis, fatigue, fatigue, dizziness, palpitation, oliguria and renal damage.

matters needing attention

The treatment of heart failure is a long-term process. When the patient's condition is stable, he must go to the heart failure clinic or the expert clinic of cardiovascular department every 2-3 weeks. The medication should also be carried out according to the doctor's instructions, and regular tests should be carried out.