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What types of heart disease are there? |
can you give me a name of a type of heart disease please, if you know any???? The basic types would be: Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), which means block arteries to the heart muscle. This causes heart attacks (myocardial infarction) and angina Cardiomyopathy - Abnormal heart muscle. Can be caused by CAD, high blood pressure, valvular heart disease, viruses or rarely injury. Congestive Heart Failure - The heart doesn't pump blood efficiently. Due to cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease and CAD. Valvular Heart Disease - Abnormal shape and function of one or more heart valves. Congenital Heart Disease - Birth Defects of valves or the heart muscle, holes in heart chambers. Pericarditis - Inflammation of the sack around the heart. Rarely tumors can affect the heart too. There may be a few others I have not included, but this contain the most common types. ischemic heart disease, cardiomyopathy (too many types to mention), acute coronary syndrome, congestive heart failure, cardiomegaly, there are disease of the sinus node resulting in irregular heartbeats There are three main types of heart disease Congenital heart disease - a person is born with a heart defect. Damage to the heart as a muscle - this could be a "heart attack" ischemic heart disease (loss of blood to a section of the heart) which is often caused by a clot in the blood supply to the heart. Or an arrhythmia - that is a change in the hearts cycle of beating caused by damage to the heart. There are also some infections such as rheumatic fever that damages the heart muscle Failure of the heart as a pump - problems in another body system - usually the lungs but also sometimes the kidneys or liver cause the heart to be overloaded and fail. RN I have arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. It's hell to live with - just for your information! Ex nurse |
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