Tag: Cardiovascular Internal Medicine

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Palpitations? Breast discomfort? May be caused by atrial fibrillation!

Aunt Liu in the community is 66 years old this year and suffers from rheumatic mitral stenosis for more than 20 years. Recently, she always feels palpitations and shortness of breath. So she went to the hospital to check. The doctor took out the stethoscope and listened to it, and looked at her electrocardiogram, telling her that it was caused by atrial fibrillation, and let her go back and insist on taking aspirin every day. Is what atrial fibrillation? Why does Aunt Liu take aspirin every day? Today, let’s take a look at atrial fibrillation for everyone. Is what atrial fibrillation? Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia in clinic. Atrial contraction in normal people shows uniform and consistent contraction. Read More …

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Hypertension control is not good, may be blind, can’t see things

The eyes are the windows of the heart, Let’s feel the wonderful world. Many people like to use cameras to describe eyeballs. Then the retina is like a photographic film in a camera. It is specially responsible for photosensitive imaging. But for people with hypertension who do not control their blood pressure well, At the end of the day, enjoying a clear and bright world may be a luxury for them. Because small blood vessels in the retina are damaged by hypertension, hypertensive retinopathy will occur, and in serious cases, they may become blind and never see again. What is going on? Why does hypertension damage retina? Although, generally at the end of hypertension, It is easy for the eyes Read More …

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High blood pressure can be [sad], do you know?

We have talked about the damage of hypertension to cerebral vessels and kidneys in previous articles. In this article, we will talk about the third complication of hypertension-heart damage. Why is hypertension [sad]? After hypertension occurs, There are mainly two kinds of [sad] conditions in the cardiovascular system: 1. After left ventricular hypertrophy and hypertension occur, When the heart contracts, In order to inject blood into the surrounding blood vessels, The pressure is greater than normal blood pressure. If we don’t try every means to help the heart [lighten the burden], The heart can only [find another way] to make itself [strong], Make yourself less struggling when ejecting blood. Medically, we call this pathological change [left ventricular hypertrophy]. This is Read More …

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How to avoid repeated heart attacks? The doctor has five secrets

Coronary heart disease is mainly caused by atherosclerosis in coronary artery. Coronary artery is the blood vessel supplying blood to the heart. If atherosclerotic plaque occurs, the elasticity of blood vessel decreases, and stenosis or obstruction is easy to occur, which may cause insufficient blood supply to the heart, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and even cardiac arrest at any time, eventually leading to death. For those patients who have already suffered from angina pectoris or myocardial infarction, how to prevent recurrence becomes very important. At this point, doctors have a good set of prevention secrets, according to the English abbreviation, can be summarized into ABCDE five, just like human hands. Today, I will teach this secret to you, so that Read More …

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Hypertension is not well controlled, will there be what consequences?

Many friends with hypertension feel that they have no symptoms of what discomfort and worry about the side effects of taking antihypertensive drugs, so they choose not to treat them. This kind of practice is very dangerous. The harm of hypertension does not lie in the symptoms it causes, but in the damage to various organs and blood vessels of the whole body unconsciously. When these damages become more and more serious, various complications will occur. These complications seriously affect the quality of life and even endanger life. Now let’s focus on which organs hypertension mainly damages and which complications it will cause. Heart 1. Left ventricular hypertrophy This is the most common heart damage. It is well understood that Read More …

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Infusion to open blood vessels, this line [through]?

Entering winter, the weather began to get cold. The middle-aged and elderly friends around me heard that winter is a season with high incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, He began to think about going to the hospital or community outpatient department to inject some fluid to dredge blood vessels. In order to prepare a good body through the cold winter, welcome the new year. Li a-po is no exception, as usual, like in previous years, go to the hospital to inject some fluid infusion, but unfortunately, recently heard that Li a-po legs and feet are not neat, speech is vague, diagnosis is acute cerebral infarction. So, the method of regular infusion to dredge blood vessels is still useless? In Read More …

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This is the relationship between high blood pressure and [stroke]

Of all cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, Perhaps the least important thing is hypertension. First, this disease is more common, Secondly, it is the early stage of the disease. Often there are no particularly serious symptoms. Therefore, Many people think that, Hypertension is nothing more than a little higher than normal blood pressure, As long as the head does not hurt and the heart does not palpitate, You don’t even have to take antihypertensive drugs. Little imagine, When high blood pressure causes headaches, Cerebrovascular accident, It may have happened quietly. Cerebrovascular accident, In other words, people often say [stroke]. The Relationship between Hypertension and [Stroke] Cerebral blood vessels have been under the [baptism] of hypertension for a long time. Burden and Read More …

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Early in the morning, [Volcano Time] for Hypertensive Patients

Liu Jiaoshou of the university has been suffering from hypertension for more than 10 years. He thinks that he has great experience in blood pressure management: taking medicine on time, insisting on daily self-test of blood pressure and exercising properly. After retirement, he also insisted on practicing Taijiquan every morning for several years. However, one morning a few days ago, Liu Jiaoshou suddenly fainted during morning exercises and was sent to the hospital for diagnosis of cerebral hemorrhage. His life was saved, but the sequelae still seriously affected the quality of life. The family wondered why the old man, who had always had good blood pressure control, suddenly became ill. A careful examination of Liu Jiaoshou’s medical history found that Read More …

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Hypertension, how should we reduce blood pressure?

In the treatment of hypertension, patients often have two misunderstandings: one is to take medicine to solve hypertension once it is found; The other is high blood pressure, Take medicine only when you have symptoms. Neither statement is correct. We often call hypertension [lifestyle disease]. So, since hypertension is a disease [nurtured] by bad living habits, the cornerstone of treatment must be to change bad living habits. However, can all hypertension patients have their blood pressure lowered as long as they change their living habits? Hypertension, which degree should I take medicine? Generally speaking, for friends with hypertension level 1 (i.e. Blood pressure = 140 ~ 159 mmHg/90 ~ 99 mmHg) and no damage to target organs (heart, brain, kidney, Read More …

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Why does blood pressure change when you enter the hospital?

It has long been found that the blood pressure measured in the clinic is different from that outside the clinic. Usually, the blood pressure measured by doctors in the clinic is higher than that measured by patients’ friends at home. Why is this happening? Is the sphygmomanometer at home not allowed? Why does blood pressure change after entering the hospital? This phenomenon is called “white coat effect”. It is precisely because of the existence of this “white coat effect”, Some doctors suggest that patients’ friends should add 5 mmHg when measuring their blood pressure at home. For example, a patient’s friend measured his blood pressure at home at 135/85 mmHg, Then add 5 mmHg and that’s 140/90 mmHg. In other Read More …