Hypertensive heart disease is obviously caused by high blood pressure. High blood pressure means the pressure inside the blood vessels‚ which is arteries is too high. As the heart pumps‚ it must pump against the pressure‚ so it must work harder. Gradually‚ the heart muscles will be thicken. Sometimes it does not get enough oxygen because the muscle is too thick. It influenced your heart to pump regularly and its functions. These changes could effect the thickening and enlargement of the heart (left ventricle)
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Liliana Mojica Morley English II 32414 The Word “Heart” in Macbeth As Theodore Parker once said‚ “Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.” All hearts start as all hearts do‚ with love and compassion just as they should. But as a heart grows and develops with the world and people around it‚ it is affected. The human heart will grow new feelings towards things and people. This changes the definition of what you thought of as a heart. Heart can be thought of as a persons feelings; lo
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The Human Heart 1. The average adult heart beats 72 times a minute; 100‚000 times a day; 3‚600‚000 times a year; and 2.5 billion times during a lifetime.f 2. Though weighing only 11 ounces on average‚ a healthy heart pumps 2‚000 gallons of blood through 60‚000 miles of blood vessels each day.c 3. A kitchen faucet would need to be turned on all the way for at least 45 years to equal the amount of blood pumped by the heart in an average lifetime.a 4. The volume of blood pumped by the heart can vary
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Congestive heart failure is the process in which the heart becomes in-able to maintain circulation for the requirements of the body at an effective rate‚ As the heart is one of the body’s vital organs‚ it plays an important role and has some degree of compensating mechanisms to balance the body’s needs with existing disease of the heart. Eventually when the heart is no longer able to compensate heart failure occurs; congestion will then follow‚ resulting in insufficient supply of blood to the body
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Short Answer Questions: 1. Dr. Baker spends a long time listening to (auscultating) Caleb’s heart. a. Where on the thoracic surface do you auscultate to the tricuspid‚ mitral (bicuspid)‚ pulmonary‚ and aortic valves? For the tricuspid valves‚ the sounds of the heart are typically heard in the right sternal margin of the 5th intercostal space. For the Mitral (bicuspid) valve‚ sounds are heard over the heart apex‚ in the 5th intercostal space. This is in line with the middle of the clavicle. (Lutchman
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The Risk Factors of Heart Attack Heart attack is the death of a segment of heart muscle caused by the loss of blood supply. The blood supply is usually lost because a coronary artery‚ one that supplies blood to the heart muscle‚ has a blood clot‚ a blockage also known as coronary thrombosis or coronary disease. ("What Is A Heart Attack? What Causes A Heart Attack?" 2013) Heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in America with approximately 460‚000 related deaths due to a sudden
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Heart disease is the number one killer in many countries. Blockage of the coronary arteries that carry blood to the heart is the major reason for heart disease. It is the main reason contributing to heart attack. A study shows that a person suffers from some sort of coronary occurrence every 29 seconds. Every year‚ around 25‚000 people die in the U.S before they reach hospital due to heart attack. It is therefore important for all to know the facts of disease‚ even if there is no sign of (heart)
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Chronic Diseases: Heart Disease Heart disease is the most frequent condition affecting the heart‚ known as coronary artery disease. Over time‚ a buildup of cholesterol creates a substance of plaque on the inside of the coronary arteries blocking the blood flow to the heart causing it to damage the heart muscle. When a heart attack occurs‚ it creates permanent damage killing a portion of the heart. If the heart cannot effectively pump blood to the body‚ it will reduce the flow‚ and begin beating
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Heart disease is a leading cause of mortality around the world. These diseases can range from coronary artery disease‚ blood vessel diseases‚ to congenital heart defects. Many patients that are affected by these diseases are treated with pills that have hazardous side effects‚ surgeries that induce trauma to the patient’s body (stents for vascular intervention‚ or balloon angioplasty‚ etc) or heart transplants that are dependent on the patient’s immune system. The bodies of these patients under go
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NURS 3530: Caring for Adult Clients I HEART FAILURE CASE STUDY Your client‚ Mr. Black‚ is a 72-year-old man who called his TeleNurse Line from home and‚ based on the symptoms he described‚ was advised to go directly to the Emergency Department at his local hospital. His admitting diagnosis is exacerbation of heart failure (HF). His Ht is: 5’9”‚ Wt. 235 lbs. He states that his usual weight is about 220. Upon admission‚ his symptoms are: extreme shortness of breath; unable to tolerate lying
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