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Is the general term for all disorders that affect the heart muscle and can ultimately result in heart failure?
Heart Disease
Can congestive heart failure cause spleen problems?
Over time, untreated, worsening congestive heart failure will affect virtually every organ in the body.
What demographic are heart transplant recipients?
Adults with end-stage heart failure account for 90% of heart transplant recipients. Pediatric patients make up the remaining 10%, with 50% of those going to patients under the age of five.
Can Cor pulmonale lead to heart failure?
This condition can lead to heart failure
What is the condition known for when the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body's needs?
Im not a doctor but that sounds a lot like a heart attack.
What is the prognosis for patients with severe heart failure?
Most patients with mild or moderate heart failure can be successfully treated with dietary and exercise programs and the right medications.
Who gets pulmonary edema?
Heart failure patients
What patients are candidates for cardiac rehabilitation?
Heart attack survivors, bypass and angioplasty patients, and individuals with angina, congestive heart failure, and heart transplants are all candidates for a cardiac rehabilitation program.
When is heart transplantation performed?
Heart transplantation is performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or some other life-threatening heart disease.
What body systems does congestive heart failure affect?
circulatory
Is the general term for all disorders that affect the heart muscle and can ultimately result in heart failure?
Heart Disease
What research has been done on the Valsalva maneuver?
the Valsalva maneuver could predict mortality in elderly patients with congestive heart failure. This could prove to be a new noninvasive way to help determine how long elderly patients with congestive heart failure are expected to live.
Can congestive heart failure affect your ability to have children?
It depends on the cause of Cardiac failure. If it is due to permanent damage of the heart it will cause problems with pregnancy. The extra work on the heart due to pregnancy, in the presence of existing heart failure can be life threatening.
Is dialysis necessary after heart surgery?
Dialysis is only necessary in cases of kidney failure. In most cases, heart patients do not also have kidney failure, and if they do, they are in serious trouble. Therefore, no, in most cases dialysis is not necessary after heart surgery.
Can congestive heart failure cause spleen problems?
Over time, untreated, worsening congestive heart failure will affect virtually every organ in the body.
What demographic are heart transplant recipients?
Adults with end-stage heart failure account for 90% of heart transplant recipients. Pediatric patients make up the remaining 10%, with 50% of those going to patients under the age of five.
When is a mechanical circulatory support used?
Mechanical circulatory support is used to treat patients with advanced heart failure.
