Is called a deficiency of the heart muscle or congestive heart failure is a disease of chronic diseases that affect the heart muscle and has a significant impact on its work and then the work of the rest of the body and is a serious condition that affects the heart or its functions and occurs as a result of disorder and dysfunction in the heart functions that created the heart It is either functional or organic dysfunction such as the reception of blood or pumping blood in sufficient quantities for all members of the body so that the body can take oxygen and food from the blood. The heart failure occurs that the heart works but the heart is less efficient than normal and usually starts shortness of the heart muscle in the side Left ventricle (left ventricle) and then p J The right side (right ventricle).
The most important cause of heart failure is :
1. Because of myocardial infarction
2. High blood pressure disease and lack of control and organization
3. Myocardial infarction for some reason
4. Cardiac dysfunction
5. There are some congenital defects in the heart
6. It is possible for the heart to infect a viral infection that is the cause
7. Severe anemia
8. Factor genetics of father and mother
9. Some pharmacological treatments.
In the case of myocardial infarction, it can cause a lot of diseases, including shortness of breath, especially when lying down. This type of disease is known as dyspnea, which causes chronic cough and swollen ankle.
The most important symptoms and signs of heart failure or failure:
1. General weakness of the body and the inability to engage in daily activities
2. Gathering fluids in the limbs (edema)
3. There is an increase in weight due to fluid pooling
4. There is nausea and sometimes there is vomiting
5. Strong pain in chest, heart area and lungs
6. Cough and chronic cough
7. Shortness of breath especially when sleeping
8. Frequent urination especially at night weak concentration
9. The patient feels an appetite loss of food.
The diagnosis of the disease is either through the medical history of the patient and the family, such as chronic diseases such as diabetes and stress. Or through x-ray, x-ray, cardiogram, or magnetic resonance imaging, or through the laboratory, to examine blood samples, to take biopsies from the heart, and finally to check for cholesterol.
There is no complete treatment for heart failure but the patient is given drugs to increase the effectiveness of the heart better than before or it is possible to intervene surgically and replace the heart valve which is the cause or installed a pump to the heart, but that happens when the worsening situation to the worst.
The prevention of this disease is balanced healthy food balanced away from fats rich in vitamins such as vegetables and fruits, and quit smoking and exercise, and lose weight and excess blood pressure and monitoring and control and control of blood sugar.
The complications of this disease are serious, such as renal failure, problems in the special valves of the heart muscle, liver damage, and a heart attack.