HEART DISEASE
Heart failure is a chronic disease that occurs when your heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs. This insufficiency can cause a reflux of fluids in the body.
Symptoms of heart failure include shortness of breath, chest congestion, coughing, weight gain, swelling in the ankles and legs, fatigue, lack of energy, and abdominal bloating.
Texas Health Providers is multidisciplinary outpatient clinics where staff work with patients to manage their symptoms of heart failure. Our team of healthcare professionals will help you make lifestyle changes to improve your quality of life, monitor your heart failure symptoms, and teach you how to self-manage your symptoms.
HEART DISEASE
What are heart diseases?
The most common cause of death in the general population, and therefore among heart diseases, is ischemic heart disease. This condition is characterized by reduced blood flow through the heart’s blood vessels, most often due to atherosclerosis, which leads to a reduced supply of oxygen and nutrients to the heart and damage to the heart muscle, and thus to heart function.
Heart diseases can be roughly traced along its structure. The heart consists of a large muscle whose constant movement draws blood through the veins, its own vascular network to supply this muscle, cardiac valves which prevent reverse blood flow, and excitation conduction which transmits the stimulus to the contraction of specialized muscle cells throughout the heart.
Symptoms of heart disease in men and women
Pain in the chest
Short breathing
Heart beat
Tiredness
Treatments of heart disease
The treatment of a myocardial infarction requires emergency medical intervention in order to limit its consequences. So, you need to contact medical help as soon as possible.
Many drugs are used in the treatment of heart disease, and some of them are: drugs to lower blood pressure, drugs to treat fat disorders, diuretics, acetylsalicylic acid, antiarrhythmics, and etc.
In addition to drugs, sometimes invasive therapy is needed, which includes implantation of stents in heart blood vessels and cardiac surgical procedures such as the installation of bypass, pacemaker and ultimately even heart transplantation.
Texas Health Providers offers emergency treatment for heart disease, and once we bring the emergency under control, the main purpose of therapeutic interventions will be to prevent the problem from getting worse and to prevent recurrences. We are an outpatient clinic specializing in the care of patients with heart failure. If you experience symptoms of heart attack, our doctors will provide you the following treatment:
- Medications
- Speeches
- Psychotherapy
- Changing life style
Heart Disease services of Texas Health Providers
The teams of Texas Health Providers are made up of nurses, cardiologists, dietitians and psychologists. Our nurse will examine you individually to manage your heart failure care. Then you will have periodic appointments with your cardiologist from our clinic.
You will be given information about heart health, warning signs of heart failure, fluid and sodium restrictions, medications and how to access the health care system, if needed. So, we provide:
- Medical assessment and follow-up services;
- Personalized assessment and treatment, tailored to patient needs;
- Help managing heart failure treatments and medications;
- Ongoing education for patients and their families on disease progression, diet, lifestyle, self-monitoring and self-assessment;
- Optimize quality of life and symptom management;
- Prevent hospitalizations;
- Ongoing support through follow-up visits and telephone monitoring.
Why need to treat heart disease?
The heart is the most important organ of our body and the main center of the blood circulation system, which through the network formed by the vessels, carries the blood, which contains oxygen and other brain substances and needs it to function properly, to all parts of the body.
The right side of the heart, which consists of the atrium and the right ventricle, receives the blood that contains a low level of oxygen and transfers it through the pulmonary artery to increase the blood oxygen level, and after the end of this operation, the blood that contains high level oxygen is given to the left side of the heart and this part pumps the blood through the arteries to all parts of the body.
Diseases of the heart and blood vessels are the most common cause of death in USA, and among them, ischemic heart disease ranks first. According to statistical data, every second citizen of USA dies due to diseases of the heart and blood vessels. Some of the most important risk factors for the development of heart disease are
- Smoking
- Elevated blood fats
- Hypertension
- Diabetes, and
- Insufficient physical activity.
As we know, the heart is one of the most important parts of the human body and it is our duty to take care of it. Our clinic “Texas Health Providers” has experienced doctors in the field of treating heart diseases and also provides services such as exercise test, echocardiography, ambulatory blood pressure test, and etc.. We will also help you treat your heart diseases and problems.
