Skip to main content

Heart Blockage Causes Symptoms and Treatment


What is Heart Blockage?


Heart block is a disease that occurs with heart's electrical system as opposed to coronary artery disease. , It occurs when electrical pulses controls the beating of heart are disrupted. The heart system controls the rhythm and rates of heart system. Some people born with this problem while others are develop during their lifetimes. If it occurs with born it’s called congenital. If the heart block develops after birth, it's called acquired heart block. There are three types of heart blockage:

First Degree: First Degree is the last serve, in this electrical impulses are slowed and it cause rarely. Generally no treatment is necessary for first heart block.

Second Heart Block: In this the electrical impulses are delayed further or some of electrical impulses are unable to reach the ventricles.

Third degree Heart Block: Third degree is most served when none of the electrical impulses reach the ventricles. Ventricular escape beats are very slow and unable to generate signals to the heart system.

Causes of Heart Block: Heart block has many causes. Some people can be born with the disorder condition or develop during their life time.

 First degree heart block causes occur with inflammation of the heart muscle, low level potassium and magnesium in the blood. Some other causes are:
• Heart attack
• Medication or drugs like Beta blockers, Digoxin.
Second Degree Heart block:
• Some children who born with complete heart disease can develop second degree heart block like Damage that develops during the time of heart block.
• Bacterial Infection
• Medication Side effects

Third Degree Heart Block (Congenital): Congenital heart block occurs in babies whose mothers have an autoimmune condition such as lupus. Third Degree acquired heart block has many factors like:
• The most common cause is damage to the heart from the heart attack
• Complication in heart surgeries
• Coronary heart disease where the heart does not receive enough blood
• Cancer that spread from another part of body
• Medication can also cause third degree heart block

Symptoms of Heart Block: Below are the few common symptoms of heart blockage like:
• First symptom of heart blockage is slow heartbeat due to the narrowing down of coronary arteries. In this condition heart can't pump the required number of times.
• Hear become irregular and discontinuous pulses by a person.
• Chest pain and the pain can be tight, dull or acute.
• When blockage occurs in one or more time then person may suffer from weakness.
• Blindness may occur due to weakness or verbal disruptions
• Due to lack of oxygen a person can suffer from fever.

Treatment of Heart Block: The treatment of heart block is depending on the type and the result of various tests. Doctor will take following test like:
• An ECG (electrocardiogram): This test records the patient activity.
• Holter tape: It record the heartbeat of patient
• Echocardiogram: It is ultrasound with doctor can see the heart muscles

Doctor will treat with medicine or the treatment will diagnosis by the symptoms and doctor may recommend you artificial pacemaker which is implanted under the skin. Take your treatment by heart specialist.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Asterixis Causes Symptoms and Treatment

What is Asterixis? Asterixis is a type of movement disorder characterized by arrhythmic flexion movements of hands evoked by dorsiflexion of the wrists and outstretched arms. It is an involuntary tremor of the wrist loss of sustained contraction of the arms against ones will. It is produced by lapse of sustained posture. Mainly it causing hand tremors and the tremor occurs in both wrists and is not rhythmic characterized by metacarpophalangeal joints, jerky, irregular movements at the wrist and often accompanied by lateral movements of the fingers. Sometime this condition is called liver flap because it indicate brain damage or liver damage. Asterixis might be caused by kidney problems. Causes of Asterixis : The common cause of asterixis is liver failure or it might be caused by the problems of kidney failure. This is called azotemia. Kidneys have trouble in filtering out nitrogen-based compounds. Other causes are DRUGS (ABC) like alcohol, anticonvulsant phenytoin and carbamazepine, ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Mumps Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

What are Mumps? Mumps are a contagious viral disease of the human that leads to painful swelling of the parotid glands also known as saliva glands. Mumps is caused by a virus that usually affects to children but adults can also get it. Mumps spread through saliva and infect many parts of the body like in cheek, neck, below your ears and near your jaw line, these glands become painful and swell. Mumps is that disease which is spread form one person to another through the infected person release virus in the air. Mumps is disease which recovers completely and no long term mark left. Mumps symptoms are seen in 14 to 16 days, during the time virus will multiply in the cells and increase the level of circulating in bloodstream. Causes of Mumps : Mumps are caused by virus (paramyxovirus), many other infections disease is caused by this virus. It is mainly infected salivary glands and reproduces which located below and in front of the ears. It is spread by direct contact of infected person. ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Phobia Causes, Symptoms and Treatments

What is Phobia? We all know that everyone has a fear and afraid, for most people these fears are minor and some time it become tremendous anxiety for your life. Phobia is one of those problems it is an irrational fear and fear can be from any type like fear of road travel, from specific situation, animals or from medical situations. A phobia is a kind of anxiety disorder, usually it evident between the ages of 15 and 20 years and affected both male and female. The good news for phobia is that it can be cure or managed. Some specific types of phobias are: Specific Phobia : Involve fear about specific situations, height, living creatures, places, specific objects or activities. Complex Phobia : Social phobia and agoraphobia are known as complex phobia. A fear of flying or a person may be afraid from crashing, loosing self control etc. Agoraphobia : A fear from the market places, open spaces, being alone at home, inescapable place or situation. Social Phobias : A person fee...
2 comments
Read more