Author: Saul Peterson
There are many forms of heart disease including ischemic heart disease (plaque-blocked arteries), congenital conditions, arrhythmia, and diseases of the actual heart muscle. Whether heart disease is detected early or not revealed until after heart failure, there are now available to doctors and medical professionals many differing remedies and treatments to reduce the risks of further heart disease. Very basically there are three categories of heart disease treatment.
Just keep taking the tablets!!
When a heart beats too quickly, or if the arteries around it contract tightly, the heart will be overtaxed, like revving an engine that's in park, which, long term can result in damage to the heart muscle. Doctors prescribe three classes of pills called nitrates, beta blockers, and calcium channel blockers to enable the heart to run more efficiently. Each of these types of heart disease treatments help the heart to beat regularly and slowly, or expand the arteries in the area of the heart so that blood flow to the heart muscle is more efficient.
Surely everyone these days knows that Aspirin thins the blood and reduces the risk of blood clots forming, causing blocked arteries. Aspirin does diminish the blood's ability to form clots, as do Heparin and Warfarin, other drugs fight cholesterol, which can form plaque in the arteries (ischemic heart disease) and lead to heart failure. These drugs are usually called cholesterol reducing drugs or are part of a subcategory called 'statins'.
As always, if your doctor prescribes medicine, don't forget to ask plenty of questions about what the drug is and what it does, including any possible side effects.
Scalpel, Please!!
When clogged caronary arteries are life threatening, heart disease treatment can mean going into surgery. Some surgeries will clear the plaque in the arteries by cleaning or grinding it away or inflating a balloon (angioplasty) in the arteries to break up the plaque. During bypass surgery a large blood vessel will be taken from elsewhere in the body and grafted to the blocked artery so blood can pass around the blockage to the heart.
Surgeries for other conditions include implanting a pacemaker into the heart to treat arrhythmia, and doctors can transplant aortic valves into a patient whose valve has stopped functioning properly. In case no heart disease treatment is possible, such as in infants born with heart defects, artificial hearts do exist, though they are only a temporary solution until a heart transplant can be performed.
Treat The Whole System!!
Of course, before your heart gets desperate enough to need drugs or surgery, look to the risk factors you can control. Don't smoke; control your cholesterol as best as possible so that plaque never gets a chance to clog your arteries, although the body produces cholesterol itself so in some cases tight control of your cholesterol level is extremely difficult; and exercise regularly, most days in a week, to keep your heart muscles healthy. Hopefully if you undertake these simple steps, heart disease treatment will be for other people, not you.
For a free e-book, more articles and information about heart disease please visit http://www.a1toparticles.com/heart.html/
About the author:
Saul Peterson has suffered heart
failure and disease for over 10 years - having numerous operations during this time - he knows heart disease first-hand
There are many forms of heart disease including ischemic heart disease (plaque-blocked arteries), congenital conditions, arrhythmia, and diseases of the actual heart muscle. Whether heart disease is detected early or not revealed until after heart failure, there are now available to doctors and medical professionals many differing remedies and treatments to reduce the risks of further heart disease. Very basically there are three categories of heart disease treatment.
Just keep taking the tablets!!
When a heart beats too quickly, or if the arteries around it contract tightly, the heart will be overtaxed, like revving an engine that's in park, which, long term can result in damage to the heart muscle. Doctors prescribe three classes of pills called nitrates, beta blockers, and calcium channel blockers to enable the heart to run more efficiently. Each of these types of heart disease treatments help the heart to beat regularly and slowly, or expand the arteries in the area of the heart so that blood flow to the heart muscle is more efficient.
Surely everyone these days knows that Aspirin thins the blood and reduces the risk of blood clots forming, causing blocked arteries. Aspirin does diminish the blood's ability to form clots, as do Heparin and Warfarin, other drugs fight cholesterol, which can form plaque in the arteries (ischemic heart disease) and lead to heart failure. These drugs are usually called cholesterol reducing drugs or are part of a subcategory called 'statins'.
As always, if your doctor prescribes medicine, don't forget to ask plenty of questions about what the drug is and what it does, including any possible side effects.
Scalpel, Please!!
When clogged caronary arteries are life threatening, heart disease treatment can mean going into surgery. Some surgeries will clear the plaque in the arteries by cleaning or grinding it away or inflating a balloon (angioplasty) in the arteries to break up the plaque. During bypass surgery a large blood vessel will be taken from elsewhere in the body and grafted to the blocked artery so blood can pass around the blockage to the heart.
Surgeries for other conditions include implanting a pacemaker into the heart to treat arrhythmia, and doctors can transplant aortic valves into a patient whose valve has stopped functioning properly. In case no heart disease treatment is possible, such as in infants born with heart defects, artificial hearts do exist, though they are only a temporary solution until a heart transplant can be performed.
Treat The Whole System!!
Of course, before your heart gets desperate enough to need drugs or surgery, look to the risk factors you can control. Don't smoke; control your cholesterol as best as possible so that plaque never gets a chance to clog your arteries, although the body produces cholesterol itself so in some cases tight control of your cholesterol level is extremely difficult; and exercise regularly, most days in a week, to keep your heart muscles healthy. Hopefully if you undertake these simple steps, heart disease treatment will be for other people, not you.
For a free e-book, more articles and information about heart disease please visit http://www.a1toparticles.com/heart.html/
About the author:
Saul Peterson has suffered heart
failure and disease for over 10 years - having numerous operations during this time - he knows heart disease first-hand
tags:Congenital Heart Defects,Heart Diseases