Heart Murmur Treatment
Health Encyclopedia: Treatment For Congestive Heart Failure
- Treatment for Congestive Heart Failure
- Highlights
- Introduction
- The Causes of Congestive Heart Failure
- Symptoms of Congestive Heart Failure
- Congestive Heart Failure Risk Factors
- Congestive Heart Failure Complications
Treatment
Recent expert guidelines for evaluating the severity of heart failure and determining treatments use a staging system that is similar to the one used for major cancers:
- Stage A: Patients are at high risk for heart failure, but there is no evidence of structural damage to the heart. Risk factors include high blood pressure, heart diseases, diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and previous use of medications that damage the heart (such as some chemotherapy).
- Stage B: Patients have a struc...
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Health Guide
Mitral Valve Proplase Patient Guide
...there may sometimes be a slight backward leaking of blood (regurgitation) as well, resulting in a heart murmur. MVP seems to be an inherited disorder, although the precise genes are not known.... Read more »Causes of Cardiac Enlargement
...care provider. A patient’s symptoms or family medical history, high blood pressure, characteristic heart murmur, forceful heart beat, swelling of the legs, or the sound of fluid in the lungs ... Read more »Congestive Heart Failure Patient Guide
Overview Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the result of abnormal and depressed function of the heart for any reason. The most common presentations of this syndrome are the development of shortness... Read more »Heart Attack Patient Guide, Part I: Symptoms
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A blockage in the heart's arteries may reduce or completely cut off the blood supply to a portion of the heart. This can cause a blood clot to form and totally stop blood flow in a coronary artery,... Read more »Images
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