There are many forms of heart disease including ischemic heart disease (plaque-blocked arteries), congenital conditions, arrhythmia, & diseases of the actual heart muscle. Whether heart disease is detected early or not revealed until after heart failure, there’re now available to doctors & medical professionals many differing remedies & treatments to reduce the risks of further heart disease. Very basically there’re three categories of heart disease treatment.
Just keep taking the tablets!!
When a heart beats too quickly, or if the arteries around it contract tightly, the heart will be overtaxed, like revving an engine that is in park, which, long term can result in damage to the heart muscle. Doctors prescribe three classes of pills called nitrates, beta blockers, & calcium channel blockers to enable the heart to run more efficiently. Each of these types of heart disease treatments help the heart to beat regularly & slowly, or expand the arteries in the area of the heart so that blood flow to the heart muscle is more efficient.
Surely virtually everyone these days knows that Aspirin thins the blood & reduces the risk of blood clots forming, causing blocked arteries. Aspirin does diminish the blood’s ability to form clots, as do Heparin & Warfarin, other drugs fight cholesterol, which can form plaque in the arteries (ischemic heart disease) & lead to heart failure. These drugs are usually called cholesterol reducing drugs or are part of a subcategory called ‘statins’.
As always, if your doctor prescribes medicine, do not forget to ask plenty of questions about what the drug is & what it does, including any possible side effects.
Scalpel, Please!!
When clogged caronary arteries are life threatening, heart disease treatment can mean going into surgery. Some surgeries will clear the plaque in the arteries by cleaning or grinding it away or inflating a balloon (angioplasty) in the arteries to break up the plaque. During bypass surgery a large blood vessel will be taken from elsewhere in the body & grafted to the blocked artery so blood can pass around the blockage to the heart.
Surgeries for other conditions include implanting a pacemaker into the heart to treat arrhythmia, & doctors can transplant aortic valves into a patient whose valve has stopped functioning properly. In case no heart disease treatment is possible, such as in infants born with heart defects, artificial hearts do exist, though they’re only a temporary solution until a heart transplant can be performed.
Treat The Whole System!!
Of course, before your heart gets desperate enough to need drugs or surgery, look to the risk factors you can control. Don’t smoke; control your cholesterol as best as possible so that plaque never gets a chance to clog your arteries, even though the body produces cholesterol itself so in *some* cases tight control of your cholesterol level is very difficult; & exercise regularly, most days in a week, to keep your heart muscles healthy. Hopefully if you undertake these simple steps, heart disease treatment will be for other people, not you.
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Paul Schaverien has suffered heart failure & disease for the past 10 years, having been hospitalised approximately sixty-five times during that time – he knows heart disease
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