Medications are really important and you have to take always the blood pressure lowering drugs because your heart has to work with a minor load (due to blood pressure). You have to ask for an heart failure outpatient clinic visit in order to understand if the medical therapy is optimized or not. Avoid smoke and alcool.
If a doctor has prescribed marijuana smoke for pain, I suppose that the general hemodynamic status of your mother was satisfactory. I can only suggest you to monitor if your mother is having a regular clinical evaluation regarding her heart failure status.
Your daughter is probably experiencing some supraventricular arrhythmias as paroxysmal reentry tachycardia or extrabeats. Itīs important to record the ECG during the symptoms, maybe you could ask your doctor for a prolonged ECG monitoring. A cardiological/arrhythmological evaluation could be useful in order to perform the more appropriate therapy.
Are you currently in atrial fibrillation? If the answer is yes, you could ask your doctor regarding anticoagulation therapy and a cardioversion in order to restore sinus rhythm.
Dear Erica,
can you please explain me whatīs your arrhythmic diagnosis? If verapamil has been prescribed I suppose that you are experiencing extrabeats and itīs important to take the drug in order to relieve your symtoms. Itīs important to undergo to a complete examination including echocardiography, but I suppose that your Cardiologist have already done it.
there are many drugs indicated for heart failure, diuretics are effective to reduce the retained fluids but id heart pump function or renal function are worsening maybe the dose (or drug type) is insufficient. He should undergo to a clinical evaluation and new therapy optimization.
yes, sure. Cocaine may have different adverse effects, and acute ischemic episodes (heart attacks) could be induced. I would suggest a cardiological evaluation to your friend.
Thromboembolic risk depends on several factors that are measured with a risk score (i.e. CHADS2 or a newer CHADS2Vasc scores), so what a good clinical practice should do is to tailor the approach in every single patient looking for a good balance among benefits and risks.
Dr. Andrea Natale
Dr. Andrea Natale is a board certified electrophysiology expert and practices at executive medical director of the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David's Medical Center in Austin, Texas. Dr. Natale also is the Senior Medical Director at Pacific Atrial Fib and Arrhythmia Center in San Francisco. He visits MetroHealth in Cleveland, and Akron General, Ohio. He has pioneered a new circumferential ultrasound vein-ablation system to correct atrial fibrillation and performed the procedure on the world's first five patients. For further details Please visit :Link
Dr. Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy
Dr. Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, MD, F.A.C.C, FHRS. is a board certified electrophysiology expert and practices at Mid-America Cardiology and The University of Kansas Hospital Clinics in Kansas City, KS, USA. He has several distinctions in clinical and research career to his credit and serves as an associate editor for Journal of Atrial Fibrillation.For further details Please visit :Link
Dr. Dhanunjay Lakkireddy, MD, F.A.C.C, FHRS, The Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute (KCHRI), KS, USA.
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