Heart disease may be inflammatory and degenerative in nature. In addition, quite often there are ischemic heart disease, congenital and acquired heart defects. All of these diseases require careful examination, observation and treatment of patients. In some cases, medical treatment is not enough and surgery is required.

Coronary artery disease

Coronary heart disease (CHD) develops on the background of atherosclerosis Atherosclerosis - when problems with blood vessels . Thus the walls of the blood vessels that carry blood to the heart muscle (coronary arteries), are deposited atherosclerotic plaques, which reduce the vessel lumen. Over time, the coronary vessel can be so narrow that almost does not pass the blood to the myocardial tissue.

The slightest spasm of the vessel shuts off the arterial blood which carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues. And as the heart muscle cells can not exist without oxygen, it is accompanied by a bout of severe pain - angina.

It is important to know that an attack of angina should be immediately removed. For this purpose, patients are with nitroglycerin, which is for one or two minutes can cause dilation of coronary blood vessels and the removal of attack.

Inflammatory heart disease - myocarditis and pericarditis

Inflammation of the heart muscle or myocardium may be a complication after infectious diseases (influenza, angina, pyelonephritis, etc.). The inflammatory process may also be allergic in nature.

The symptoms of myocarditis is a heart pain, heart rhythm disorders, shortness of breath, weakness, malaise. Heart pain is usually constant aching or oppressive character. Sometimes on this background there are intense stabbing or cutting pain, like the pain of angina. Such pain can occur by themselves, without aching dull pain that can not be removed nitroglycerin, but reduced when taking NSAIDs - diclofenac Diclofenac , Movalis, Naiza and so on.

Pericarditis - an inflammation of the outer membrane of the heart, consisting of two sheets, between which is a pericardial. Pericarditis is often a sign of rheumatic fever and rheumatic combined with myocarditis. When dry (without the presence of inflammatory fluid in the pericardial cavity) and pericarditis disease can manifest itself in the form of a dull aching pain in permanent heart. If the pericardial fluid accumulates but worried about the growing pains of the patient short of breath.

In order to treat inflammation of the heart, it is necessary to establish the reason for their development. Then the patients received adequate treatment, which is carried out, usually in a hospital.

Heart defects

Heart disease - a congenital or acquired anatomical changes of the heart valves, partitions or walls of the heart, as well as off of it large vessels. These disorders lead to a breach of the promotion of blood within the heart or to a violation of separation between the large and small circulation. This can lead to the development of cardiovascular disease, blood stagnation in the organs and tissues. All heart defects are divided into congenital and acquired.

Congenital heart disease - an abnormality of intrauterine development (they are much less) purchased - the result carried over after the birth of illness or injury of the heart (such heart defects more than a few dozen times, than the birth).

Congenital heart defects develop for different reasons. It may be hereditary predisposition, maternal disease during pregnancy, the impact on it of harmful substances, ionizing radiation, and so on.

Acquired heart defects can be isolated, combining (if there are several anatomical changes in the area of ​​one valve) and combined (anatomic changes in the number of valves). Treatment of heart diseases is carried out, both conservative and operative. Surgical treatment is usually used when the threat of complications that threaten the life of the patient.

Heart disease, and many sometimes difficult to distinguish from each other on the basis of examination of the patient. Therefore, heart disease require careful examination.

Galina Romanenko