The good Heart

Yay, I'm back, been away for awhile between Nigeria lost to Argentina and are out of the world cup, soo sad right??? But what made me more sad sad is when I heard a doctor with one of the teaching hospital slump and died while watching the match, I also heard an Egyptian commentator also died while watching the Saudi Arabia v Egypt match

What could be wrong???

I really can't say what happened in both cases, an autopsy will do that and I don't even have their medical history, but permit me to talk about heart failure.
On this post I will limit myself to prevention, classes and causes, maybe later I will do treatment and therapeutic goals
Heart failure can be defined as the inability of heart to pump blood at a rate commensurate with the requirement of metabolising tissue or is able to so only with an elevated diastolic filling pressure
Wow!! Too hot for jist a definition right??? Let me break it down
Heart failure is the inability of the heart to keep up with the demands on it and specifically failure of the heart to pump blood with normal efficiency, when this happens the heart is unable to provide adequate blood flow to organs such as brain, liver or kidney

Symptoms- some common symptoms include

Asthma due to heart (cardiac asthma)
Shortness of breath (dyspnea)
Pooling of blood (stasis) in general body
Swelling (edema)
Enlargement of heart (hypertrophy)
Tachycardia
Fatigue and weakness
Rales, wheezing
Chest pain, pressure and palpitation

Causes include
Myocardial infarction
Coronary artery disease
Valve disease
Pregnancy
Septic shock
Chronic hypertension
Myocarditis
Thyroid disease
Idiopathic cardiomyopathy

Classes
Class I - no limitation of physical activity
Class II - slight limitation of physical activity
Class III - marked limitation of physical activity
Class IV- symptoms occur even at rest, discomfort with any physical activity

Non pharmacological therapy/ prevention for those at risk
-oxygen and noninvasive positive pressure ventilation
-dietary sodium restriction
-physical activity as appropriate
-attention to weight gain

Thanks for reading

Gracias