What is bnt related to a heart condition?
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Is it possible you mean BNP?\n\nBNP is a hormone released by the heart when it is having difficulty pumping.  A blood test determines the amount of BNP in your blood, and a high level indicates heart failure.\n\nTesting for BNP can help doctors determine if a patient's symptoms are because of heart problems rather than something else. \n\nFor a patient with a known heart problem, BNP can show if heart failure is part of the condition.
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Cardiac enzymes should be drawn and you should have a "Stress test." Just ask your doctor.
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These things may or may not be related. However more information is required to determin what is going on. Some common things could be, stress, heart burn, hypothyordism.. but i sugest you start by seeing your doctor.
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Cardiomyopathy means a problem with the heart muscle.  The problem can lead to overgrowth of the muscle (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), or its dilation (dilated cardiomyopathy).  Dilated muscle leads to heart enlargement and an overall decrease in efficiency of the pumping action of the heart.  Clinically, it is one of the causes of congestive heart failure (CHF).\n\nThe topic is bit complicated, but both the treatment and the prognosis hinge on one thing: etiology (or what is the underlying cause of the dilation).  Some common causes include ischemic heart disease (due to coronary blockages), hypertension, alcohol use, or genetics.  Some less common causes include peripartum cardiomyopathy in women, autoimmune problems (like celiac sprue) and infections (HIV or viral myocarditis for example).  I state these, because the corner stone of treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy is to address the underlying cardiac issue (by controlling hypertension, opening up the blockages, etc).  \n\nAside from the optimization of the underlying cardiac problems, dilated cardiomyopathy merits specific medication regimen.   I do not want to trivialize this question and would advise you to definitely work with your physician with respect to the exact nature of this regimen.  In general, treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy involves careful titration of ace inhibitors (like lisnopril), beta blockers (carvidelol is preferred), diuretics and in some cases digoxin (for people with particulary poor pumping action of the heart).  For blacks, hydralazine plus a nitrate drug combination has been shown more beneficial than for whites.  The goal of titration of these medications is to make the patient comfortable with respect to common heart failure symptoms.  The medicaitons also reduce mortality (with ACE inhibitors having most effect) Interestingly, cardiac rehabilitation program consisting of aerobicexcercise routines can also help.\n\nYou asked about prognosis.  It also depends on etiology, but the mortality due to ischemic causes (most common; again due to blocked arteries...usually associated with prior heart attacks) has been shown to be about 50% at 10 years in a study of 1230 patients.  Other etiologies carry other mortality percentages with some better and some (particularly HIV) worse prognosis.  Proper long-term treatment reduces mortality significantly.  \n\nOne final thought.  If ejection fraction (EF) is below 35%, one may need an internal defibrillator device.  That is a topic in itself...just ask your doctor about it.  Hope that helps!
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It is theoropy related to breating and heart beating.
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lots of things:\n\n-diet\n-illness\n-dehydration\n-medications\n\nthose are off the top of my head, but without some sort of senario i really can't give you a better answer. \n\nvery important however: if you have a heart condition then don't strain too hard when pushing, or you could have a heart attack.
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What is CHD?? Congestive heart disease? If so, you don't need high blood pressure to have it. You could have a floppy heart valve, for example, that doesn't close well enough. In other words, a heart murmur can be a factor in CHD even if you don't have high blood pressure.
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My father had this surgery after having heart problems caused by the weight. I have done a lot of research on it and have not heard of a clinical link to a post surgical link and would guess it is related to pre surgery health. My cousin who had the surgery has had deteriorarating health since surgery that they thought was heart related only to discover it was caused by severe anemia. Take your vitamins and b-12 as directed and I doubt it was the surgery but look out for other side effects.
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http://heartdisease.about.com/cs/heartattacks/a/MIlate_5.htm
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check out Bnetweb.com // Bnetneeds.com They should help you out on provideing info
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I have taken numerous cardiac classes and would like to help you, but I need more information. What do you mean "working off 60% of its power"? Did your specialist measure your MABP? If you'd like to give me more info so I can help you out you can e-mail me @ mary.edwards4543@my.sinclair.edu
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Please become a member of AFIBsupport.\nYou will find many knowledgeable patients\nregarding RFA.
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I found information about this on this site. I hope this helps. The diet and rules are clearly set out. \n\nhttp://www.cartercountymarket.com/html/cardiac.html
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By what information you have given me my 1st guess would be cardiogenic shock. But you don't say why the thoracotomy was preformed. Was it for heart, heart valves, lung, thorasic aorta, esphageal or spine surgery. You also don't say wether this patient had a cardiac or pulmonary arrest or if both which occured 1st. I chose cardiogenic shock 1st due to all the already existing cardiac issues and additional symptoms. Was the CHF ( which  pulmonary edema is a symptom) caused by the cardiomegaly , the A-fib, the MV prosthesis or a combination of some or all. You also mentioned a previous CABG, but you didn't mention any myocardial injury occuring. This pt. not only had mechanical issues but also had electrical problems as demonstrated by the A-fib and the RBBB. The pulmonary involvement sounds more like it's due to all the cardiac problems. You mentioned hypotention but not whether it was due to medication or if it was a symptom of the cardiomegaly. You mentioned oliguria but nothing of CRF or even ARF post surgery. So was this a new onset? You give no lab values that could indicate organ functions. Sooooooooo. I still stand with cardiogenic shock as my 1st choice (chosen from all the cardiac envolvement and the possibility that he could have thrown a clot [a-fib, PMV and had to be taken off thinners for the surgery] and had an MI. The symptoms of hypotention & oliguria occur in cardiogenic shock). My 2nd choice would be a CVA ( due to the A-fib the PMV and the fact he had to be off anticoagulants for the thoracotomy. 3rd and lastly alcohol withdrawal (just kidding! Really I was just kidding!)
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It sounds like you are referring to a set of disorders called "connective tissue disorders" which can include Marfan Syndrome and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, among others.  Patients with these sorts of conditions have very flexible joints (double-jointed) among other signs.\n\nThe main heart condition that such patients have to be aware of is a thoracic aortic aneurysm.  Basically, the wall of the aorta (the main artery in your body) is abnormal and can start to balloon up over time.  Not all patients with these conditions will get a thoracic aortic aneurysm, but it should absolutely be screened for.  This needs to be monitored with serial echocardiograms and, if it reaches a certain size, should be operated on.  The risk of not treating a thoracic aortic aneurysm is eventual rupture or dissection, both of which are highly lethal.  (John Ritter died of an ascending aortic dissection.)  Hope that helps.\n\nP.S.  If people don't know the answers to some of these questions, why do they post a response to say, "I don't know!"  Is it just a ploy to earn points or something?  The points are worthless!
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Cardiomyopathy, which literally means "heart muscle disease", is the deterioration of the function of the myocardium (i.e., the actual heart muscle) for any reason. People with cardiomyopathy are often at risk of arrhythmia and/or sudden cardiac death.[1]\n\nCardiomyopathies can generally be categorized into two groups, based on World Health Organization guidelines: extrinsic cardiomyopathies and intrinsic cardiomyopathies.\n\nsee link for more details\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiomyopathy
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I am sorry that I haven't the knowledge to recommend anything to you or give you a helpful diagnosis. However, if you feel that the way in which you have been treated has not been the most helpful for your condition, or that you need to resume your treatment, please visit a reliable Dr. \nHeart conditions need to be treated, particularly when they are as noticeable as yours. \nVisit the websites of Medicine Schools, and try to contact someone in the faculty who will be able to help you. Through the Internet, try to locate as many heart doctors as possible. I hope that they can help you. \nGood luck.