What does heart failure mean

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My grandfather's health is not as good as before. Now his health is getting worse and worse. He often feels uncomfortable. Even his sleep at night becomes very poor. He usually feels hard to breathe when he walks. He goes to have an examination. The doctor says he has heart failure. Now let's talk about what heart failure means.

What does heart failure mean

First, heart failure is a group of syndromes caused by various heart structural or functional diseases leading to ventricular filling and (or) impaired ejection ability. Due to the decline of ventricular systolic function and impaired ejection function, cardiac output can not meet the needs of metabolism, organ and tissue blood perfusion is insufficient, and pulmonary circulation and (or) systemic circulation congestion occurs at the same time.

Second, heart failure is a group of syndromes caused by various heart structural or functional diseases leading to impaired ventricular filling and (or) ejection ability. It can lead to insufficient blood supply of various organs, congestion of lung and systemic circulation, weakness and dyspnea.

Third: heart failure after appropriate etiological treatment and conventional anti heart failure treatment (rest, salt restriction, diuretics, digitalis, ACEI, etc.) can often quickly improve symptoms, if the symptoms and signs of heart failure in conventional heart failure treatment is still long-term unchanged or progressive aggravation, it is called refractory heart failure.

matters needing attention

The treatment of heart failure is not very good, the patient's disease will be repeated attacks, long-term drug treatment will bring bad effects to the patient's body, so we must pay attention to other aspects of life, with treatment.