Chronic heart failure

Short characteristic of a disease

Chronic heart failure is the disease connected with a lack of oxygen and nutritious elements with which the organism is supplied in the course of activity of cardiovascular system. Healthy heart without effort copes with this difficult task, regulating a blood flow depending on intensity of exercise stresses. But if in cardiac performance there are any problems, then bodies and fabrics do not receive amount of oxygen necessary to them that, in turn, leads to various complications and even to lethal outcomes. Insidiousness of a disease is that with the diagnosis chronic heart failure of people can live all life, without guessing that in his organism there are serious changes.

Narrowing of arteries is the most common cause of chronic heart failure. As a rule, it is characteristic of elderly people, but in recent years the disease is quite often diagnosed for relatively young people. It is also necessary to note that various pathologies of vessels are more often observed at women, than at men. It is connected with bystry development of diseases in a strong half of mankind that often leads to death earlier, than vasoconstriction progresses to heart failure.

Among other factors influencing emergence and development of pathology it should be noted:

• hypertension;
• alcohol and drug addiction;
• hormonal disturbances;
• change of structure of valves of heart;
• infectious inflammations of a cardiac muscle.

Chronic heart failure – classification of a disease

Depending on the effects taking place at different stages of a disease, doctors allocate the following types of heart failure:

• 1 class – a disease does not lead to essential restriction of physical activity and does not reduce quality of life;
• 2 class – chronic heart failure practical are not felt during rest and leads to installation of weak restrictions for sports activities and exercise stresses;
• 3 class – symptoms of a disease disappear during rest, but during the periods of intensive loadings they are shown very brightly that noticeably reduces usual working capacity;
• 4 class – if such chronic heart failure is diagnosed for the person, treatment has to be appointed immediately as otherwise the disease can lead to the full loss of working capacity and severe pains which are shown even during rest.

Chronic heart failure – symptoms and a clinical picture

At heart failure the normal, natural blood stream is broken. As the result, excess liquid from a blood channel accumulates in various bodies, most often in calves, hips, ступнях, a liver and a stomach of the person. It leads to delay of speed of a current of blood, increase in pressure in cameras of heart and to reduction of total quantity of blood which our "motor" throws out in circulatory system.

Under the influence of accumulation of liquid in different parts of a body, the organism of patients begins to function incorrectly. At people are observed:

• breath disturbances – it is connected with the fact that chronic heart failure interferes with distribution of oxygen on fabrics and bodies. As a rule, attacks of suffocation happen at night;
• frustration of a dream – are a consequence of disturbances of breath;
• a bystry set of weight because of hypostases of soft tissues;
• developing of ascites – a dangerous state when liquid accumulates in an abdominal cavity;
• decrease in working capacity and bystry fatigue;
• irritability, exposure to emotional loadings and stresses.

Insufficiency of blood supply exerts impact absolutely on all vital systems of an organism, leading to serious complications and lethal outcomes. For this reason chronic heart failure which classification is stated above in the text is subject to close attention of researchers from the different countries of the world. They study influence of pathology on soft tissues and bodies, look for problem solutions, develop new medicines and diagnostic methods.

Chronic heart failure – treatment of a disease

As well as in a case with other diseases of cardiovascular system, the best treatment of heart failure there is a prevention of a disease. It includes a healthy lifestyle, a diet, physical exercises and timely visits to the cardiologist for early diagnosis of an arterial hypertension or atherosclerosis.

As for medicamentous therapy. At the diagnosis chronic heart failure, treatment means reception of such groups of drugs as: cardiac glycosides, diuretics, beta-blockers and blockers of calcium channels. The most effective and often used means are cardiac glycosides. They were open at the beginning of the 18th century, but did not lose the relevance and today. This group of drugs promotes increase in cordial reductions, improvement of exchange processes and normal work of circulatory system.

If chronic heart failure is caused by disturbances from heart valves, the surgical intervention consisting in heart transplantation is shown to the patient.