Heart failure I have explained more than once that it is an end-stage disease caused by various disease factors that continuously damage the heart. The treatment of this type of patients is more difficult, and most of the treatments are based on improvement. Quality of life is the main purpose.
Early heart failure patients are not much different from ordinary people, but as time goes by and the condition gradually worsens, the patient's normal life and work will be greatly affected, and accidents may occur at any time, so they need the care of others. , but also need to keep in mind the precursor symptoms of adverse events , so as to call the 120 emergency hotline as soon as possible.
Nothing is fixed!
Don’t be panic or indulge. For patients with heart failure, nothing is absolute. We often say that the five-year survival rate of heart failure is 250%. This is not to scare people, but a probability based on clinical data, but Anything is possible as long as it's not 100%.
Case 1: Mr. Li, 38 years old, a taxi driver, was diagnosed with heart failure in a hospital in 2019. The symptoms were not obvious at the time, and he did not realize the seriousness of the problem. He received treatment intermittently for more than a year. Frequent chest tightness and shortness of breath occurred, and abnormal symptoms would appear after walking for 3 or 4 minutes. At this time, I began to change my attitude, actively cooperate with treatment and seek other methods. In August 2020, I came to see me for treatment. Through my relevant examination and past history After comprehensive analysis, the key lesions were discovered, and then focus removal and neuromodulation were started. The entire treatment course lasted for 23 days. The patient's EF value increased from 32% to 64%, and the abnormal symptoms completely disappeared.
Case 2: Ms. Song, 46 years old, a freelancer, began to feel chest tightness intermittently in 2021, and often could not breathe. In June, because the symptoms were too severe, she went to the hospital for examination and was found to have grade three heart failure. He was examined and given medication, but his condition continued to deteriorate, and he eventually died on December 5.
Different types of heart failure have different clinical symptoms!
1, left heart failure, right heart failure, total heart failure
Left heart failure is the most common type in clinical practice. Such patients often have heart failure caused by left ventricular compensatory insufficiency, and most of them have pulmonary circulation stasis.
Right heart failure often has primary diseases, such as congenital heart disease , pulmonary heart disease , etc. The patient's body will have blood circulation and accumulation, and there will be obvious edema in the lower limbs.
Patients with total heart failure often develop left heart failure first, and then as the condition continues to worsen, the load on the right heart increases, eventually inducing right heart failure .
2, Acute heart failure , chronic heart failure
Chronic failure is relatively common. The patient's condition will have a relatively stable change process, and the possibility of sudden accidents is small. The specific risk level will change according to changes in heart function.
Patients may suffer from acute severe myocardial injury or sudden increase in load, causing the originally normal heart to rapidly fail in a short period of time, or causing the originally chronic heart failure to rapidly worsen, acute left heart failure The probability of occurrence is higher, and patients will have acute pulmonary edema or cardiogenic shock.
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