Cardiology

A fist sized human heart works tirelessly all through a person’s life. It beats more than two and a half billion times, without ever pausing. The heart supplies the body with oxygen and other important nutrients needed to sustain life. A man’s heart is a little heavier than a woman’s heart whereas a woman’s heart beats slightly faster than a man’s heart.

Exercise can help to prevent and treat chronic diseases such as heart disease. A few ways to keep your heart healthy and safe are:

1. Not Smoking
2. Physical Activity
3. Healthy Diet
4. Healthy Body Weight
5. Cholesterol Control
6. Blood Pressure Control
7. Blood Sugar Control

Causes of Heart Failure

Causes of heart failure are often difficult to analyze due to differences in populations & age, challenges in diagnosis etc. Given below are some of the common causes for Heart failure.

Common causes of heart failure ranked as per their risk factor:

• Ischaemic Heart Disease 62%
• Smoking 16%
• Hypertension/high blood pressure 10%
• Obesity 8%
• Diabetes 3%
• Valvular heart disease 2% (higher in older population)

Rare causes of heart failure:

• Viral Myocarditis (infection of the heart muscle)
• Infiltrations of the muscle or amyloidosis
• HIV cardiomyopathy (caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus)
• Connective Tissue Diseases like Systemic lupus erythematosus
• Use of drugs such as alcohol
• Pharmaceutical drugs such as chemotherapeutic agents
• Arrhythmia

Obstructive Sleep Apnoea, a condition of sleep disordered breathing, along with obesity, hypertension and diabetes and can be a cause of heart failure.

Signs and Symptoms

Classical symptoms of acute myocardial infarction include:

• Sudden chest pain (radiating to the left arm or left side of the neck)
• Shortness of breath
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Palpitations
• Sweating
• Anxiety (described as a sense of impending doom)

Women may experience only some of the typical symptoms than men, like shortness of breath, weakness, a feeling of indigestion, and fatigue. One quarter of all myocardial infarctions are silent, and present no chest pain or other symptoms.

Conditions/diseases that can be treated at the Medica Heart Institute, Patna

• Angina / Unstable Angina
• Acute Heart Attack (MI)
• Shortness of breath / Valvular heart Disease
• Congenital Heart Diseases Patients requiring pacemaker
• Patients with abnormal heart rate (Arrythmia)
• Syncope or faint attacks

Our Specialties

Medica Heart Institute, Patna offers comprehensive treatment for heart problems and works round the clock to care for your heart in the best possible way. Supervised by a team of experienced and highly skilled Doctors, supported by state-of-the-art critical care and emergency support we provide:

• Elective Coronary Angioplasty and stent implant
• Primary Coronary Angioplasty (during first few hours of MI)
• Renal Angioplasty
• Carotid Angioplasty
• Balloon Valvuloplasty like Mitral, Aortic, Pulmonary, Tricuspid valve ballooning
• Device closure of holes in the heart like ASD, VSD, PDA
• Pacemaker
• ICD Implantation