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Heart Failure Diagnosis and Investigation, Objective evidence of a structural or functional abnormality of the heart at rest: cardiomegaly, third heart sound, cardiac murmur...
Heart Auscultation (Types of Heart Sounds and Murmurs), The interpretation of heart murmurs in children can be especially difficult and it is discussed elsewhere in the sepa...
Heart Attack Recovery, For some people, the biggest cause of disability following a heart attack is not their heart but unfounded worries and anxiety about their heart...
The Heart and Blood Vessels, The closing of the valves in the heart make the 'lub-dub' sounds that a doctor can hear with a stethoscope. If you exercise, your bod...
Congenital Heart Disease, Babies in the UK have a full medical examination at birth and at 6 weeks of age , and part of this involves a doctor checking pulses in the baby's groin and list...
Abnormal Heart Rhythms (Arrhythmias), The rate that the ventricles contract can then be slow. Third-degree, or complete, heart block means that no impulses are conducte...
Restrictive cardiomyopathy symptoms (presentation) Usually presents with heart failure but normal systolic function: dyspnoea, fatigue, loud third heart sound, pulmonary oedema...
Cardiomegaly - normal or quiet first and second heart sounds, a gallop rhythm with an audible third heart sound. Apical pansystolic murmur. Hepatomegaly.
Epidemiology of Coronary Heart Disease, Poor diet and other lifestyle factors are estimated to account for about one-third of all deaths from CVD in England. [ 4 ] Age CHD in...
Palliative Care of Heart Failure, The management of heart failure has improved considerably in recent years but people with heart failure and their families experience s...
Heart in Systemic Disease, Acromegaly : heart failure. Haemochromatosis : heart failure, arrhythmias, heart block. Anderson-Fabry disease : arrhythmias, cor...
Congenital Heart Disease in Children, What is congenital heart disease? Congenital heart disease covers a wide spectrum from small defects, which may be totally asympto...
Heart Murmurs in Children, Abnormal heart sounds. Early or mid-systolic click. Grade 3 murmur or greater. Heard over upper left sternal border. , Congenital ...
Heart Palpitations (Causes and Management), Examine the heart, noting the position and character of the apex beat, any parasternal heave or thrills, the normality of the heart so...
Heart Failure Management, Asthma, second- or third-degree heart block, sick sinus syndrome (without pacemaker) and sinus bradycardia (<50 beats per minute (bpm)) remain c...
Heart Valve Disease, See the leaflet called Anatomy of the heart . This includes details about the function of the heart and how the heart beats. ...
Heart Disease, There are many different conditions which can affect the heart, including those which affect the heart valves, the heart wall muscle, the blood suppl...
Congestive Heart Failure, Surgery to replace or fix a heart valve may be done if a damaged heart valve is the cause of the heart failure. A heart transp...
Killip's classification is one method used to assess the severity of cardiac failure following a myocardial infarction [ 4 ] : Cardiogenic I: no crackles and no third heart sound. ...
Signs of hypervolaemia - pulmonary rales, S3 gallop (third heart sound), jugular venous distention, peripheral oedema, ascites. Aetiology [ 3 ] The causes of true hyponatraemia...