Cardiovascular Disease or Heart Disease and Symptoms

💓Cardiovascular Disease💓

Cardiovascular Disease Also called: heart disease

Heart conditions that include diseased vessels, structural problems and blood clots.

Most common types

💗  Coronary artery disease

(Also known as coronary heart disease and ischemic heart disease) Damage or disease in the heart's major blood vessels.

💗 Cardiac arrest

Sudden, unexpected loss of heart function, breathing and consciousness.

💗 Congestive heart failure

A chronic condition in which the heart doesn't pump blood as well as it should.

💗 Arrhythmia

Improper beating of the heart, whether irregular, too fast or too slow.

💗  Peripheral artery disease

A circulatory condition in which narrowed blood vessels reduce blood flow to the limbs.

💗  Stroke

Damage to the brain from interruption of its blood supply.

💗  Congenital heart disease

An abnormality in the heart that develops before birth.

💗  Cardiomyopathy

Diseases of cardiac muscle.

💗  Hypertensive heart disease

Diseases of the heart secondary to high blood pressure or hypertension.

💗  Heart failure

A clinical syndrome caused by the inability of the heart to supply sufficient blood to the tissues to meet their metabolic requirements.

💗  Pulmonary heart disease

A failure at the right side of the heart with respiratory system involvement.

💗  Cardiac dysrhythmias

Abnormalities of heart rhythm.

💗  Inflammatory heart disease

• Endocarditis – inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium. The structures most commonly involved are the heart valves.
• Inflammatory cardiomegaly
• Myocarditis – inflammation of the myocardium, the muscular part of the heart.

💗  Congenital heart disease

 Heart structure malformations existing at birth.

 💗  Rheumatic heart disease

 Heart muscles and valves damage due to rheumatic fever caused by Streptococcus pyogenes a group A streptococcal infection.

Symptoms

A person can have heart disease and not feel sick. Some people with heart disease have symptoms. This is when there are changes or pain in the body to show a disease is there. Some symptoms of heart disease are:

• Pain in the chest--the heart muscle is not getting enough flow to keep it going.
• Trouble breathing--blood may back up into the lungs.
• Palpitations (a feeling that the heart is beating too fast, too hard, or not regularly).
• Swelling of feet or legs--blood is backing up from the heart into the lower body.
• Feeling weak because the body and brain are not getting enough blood to supply them with oxygen.
• Cyanosis (skin turning a blue color) means that too little oxygen is in the bloodstream to supply the cells in the body.