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Pediatric Cardiology
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A 29-year-old member asked:
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Specializes in Pediatric Cardiology
Several hours: The thinking nowadays is to try and correct the defect in the newborn period if possible or at least within the first 2-3 months. In the past tetralo... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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A narrowing: The aorta is the main artery that comes out of the heart to deliver blood, oxygen and nutrients to the body. The artery has the shape of a "candy can... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Get checked!: Even though it may be that the chest pain is musculo-skeletal in nature at 39-yrs of age and continuous stress the possibility of myocardial ischemia ... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Yes: In fact some studies have shown that the numbers are higher in women than in men with high blood pressure.
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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With effort?: In children and young adults a fairly good rule of thumb is that if the pain is random, brief (seconds to minutes) not related to effort and made wors... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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No: Sinus bradycardia may just mean that your heart rate is slightly below the calculated and established "average hr" for the population. Now, if your h... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Several reasons: It may be as simple as a very dry environment with irritation of the skin inside your nose (mucosa) or irritation due to minor trauma. Nevertheless t... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Go to ER: Even though babies may tolerate supra-ventricular tachycardia at rates above 240bpm for many hours it is imperative that he or she is seen at an er as... Read More
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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Probably: If your degree of mitral valve regurgitation is mild, your heart is not enlarged and "squeezes" well you should have no problem. You should neverthel... Read More
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Probably not: Although it can cause significant disability (extremity numbness, weakness, etc.) if not attended to. Physical therapy helps in many people and somet... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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No: Very well conditioned athletes typically have low resting heart rates and low normal blood pressure that are a result of their excellent physical shap... Read More
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A 37-year-old member asked:
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It may vary: But usually somewhere in the range of 110-120 over 60-70.
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A 45-year-old member asked:
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See your doctor: It will all depend on what type of heart disease your husband has; he might be able to continue working if it is not severe or disabling.
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Yes: But it will depend on the age of the patient and the circumstances. A neborn baby can easily have a hr of 200 when crying or even feeding; with vigo... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Not really: If you are having a heart rhythm problem that causes your heart to stop, then some of them may have an unusual tracing. If what stops your heart is l... Read More
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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Yes: A stroke happens when brain tissue dies as a result of being starved of oxygen. If blood pressure is low enough that it cannot "push" enough oxygen i... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Impossible to say: You would need to know all of the people that have ever had heart failure and follow them until their death. As you can see this would be an impossibl... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Swift action: Put in play your abc's (airway, breathing and circulation) as fast as possible. If you determine that the child has a clear airway, is not breathing ... Read More
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A 63-year-old member asked:
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It is a stimulant: Wellbutrin (bupropion) is a form of amphetamine and therefore a stimulant. As a stimulant it may increase your blood pressure and heart rate (much in... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Echocardiography: There are other modalities that can calculate "heart strength" (how well is the heart pumping blood) and cardiac output (how many liters of blood are ... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Condition->symptom: An arrhythmia (or dysrrhythmia) is a heart rhythm that is not normal and may be due to heart disease. Palpitations is a non-specific term that is use... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Probably not: But you definitely need to be evaluated by a cardiologist to establish what type of arrhythmia it is that you are having (do you have symptoms? Have y... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Depends: Several factors have to do with longevity in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (hcm). The ability (or lack thereof) to pump blood, the presence of heart rh... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Not usually: Endocarditis (particularly after a dental visit where the bacterial inoculation is not huge) is usually a slowly developing condition that occurs over... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Depends: By definition a "benign" arrhythmia is an arrhythmia that does not pose a danger to the patient's health; so if a cardiologist diagnosed it as benign ... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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How old is your baby: A heart rate of 160 can be perfectly normal in a newborn baby and with activity or fever in babies up to several months of age, so it all depends on h... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Depends: Heart murmur is not synonymous with a heart problem. A heart murmur is a sort of "squirting" sound that can be heard when listening to the heart with... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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Some: Being that i practice peds cardiology my experience with this is limited. But one thing that i gather from your question is that you might be assumin... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Yes: And can usually cause death by the early teens.
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A 45-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Even though "disease" may carry a connotation of "infection" in every day language, in medicine it means that there is some pathology or abnormality.
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Low to slim: It will all depend on the severity of your stenosis. Mild and even moderate degrees of severity do not necessarily place you at a significantly highe... Read More
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A 27-year-old member asked:
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Exam and echo: Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve (the one that when open allows blood to leave the heart towards the body and when closed prevents i... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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See a cardiologist: In constrictive pericarditis the fibrous sack that envelops your heart has lost its ability to stretch for some reason and this impacts the ability of... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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A narrowing: It is a narrowing of a segment of the aortic artery which is the candy-cane shaped artery that comes out of the left side of the heart and provides bl... Read More
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A 27-year-old member asked:
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Not yet: But the future looks bright not only for treating cardiomyopathies but also damage caused by heart attacks; research is going on as we speak.
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Valve damage: Rheumatic fever may damage or distort the valves in your heart rendering them unable to either close or open properly. As blood is pushed through a v... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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Maybe: If cardiac arrest is the result of infarction the angina associated with the event can be painful. If cardiac arrest is due to an arrhythmia you migh... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Depends: Congenital heart disease can be very minor not warranting therapy or very severe and complex requiring multiple surgeries and procedures. Life expecta... Read More
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Call 911: Although this could represent hyperventilation or an anxiety attack, let a trained physician decide, don't run he risk of ignoring symptoms that could... Read More
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Hydrate: Climbing up stairs is a pretty strenuous activity, if you are out of shape or mildly dehydrated your heart rate will increase more rapidly than a fit ... Read More
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Not anymore: Since the development of antibiotics (penicillin in particular) especially in developed countries with adequate access to medical care the number of p... Read More
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Yes: Rheumatic fever is usually the result of an untreated throat infection with a streptococcus bacteria but in a patient with an underlying predispositio... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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No pills: Endocarditis is a severe infection in the heart that needs urgent treatment with medications by vein in a hospital setting where you can be monitored... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Depends: It would be important to know why you have bradycardia (a slow heart rate) in the first place. If you are unable to increase your heart rate with eff... Read More
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No!: No matter what your health situation is, nobody should pressure you to do anything you are not comfortable with. Now if you both want a child, your a... Read More
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Yes: The mechanism by which they allow very fast heart rates differs. In focal atrial tachycardia there is one area in your upper heart chamber (atria) th... Read More
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Yes: If fibrosis of the lung tissue disrupts the integrity of a lung vessel carrying blood, it might allow blood to leak into the lung air sacks (called al... Read More
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Yes: Screening ecg's are useful tools in the overall diagnosis of heart disease but they are not the "be all that ends all". A full evaluation should incl... Read More
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Yes: A heart murmur is not synonymous with a heart problem, in fact most murmurs are normal. Murmur is a term used to describe certain types of "squirting... Read More
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Probably not: With anxiety your body and brain are in "high alert" and therefore a lot of adrenaline is being produced. Adrenaline is the ultimate heart stimulant s... Read More
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