my Friend with LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPY has to undergo surgery HELP?
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If I understand you correctly, you're saying that your 17 year old friend has left ventricular hypertrophy and was advised to undergo surgery to correct this condition. The assumption, therefore, is that your friend has HOCM (hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy). HOCM surgery probably involves open heart surgery, so it is relatively major surgery, unless your friend is able to undergo the non-surgical option where a small amount of alcohol is injected through a tube passed from the groin to reduce the bulk of the muscle that is blocking the flow of blood in the heart. Good luck.
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Quite frankly, it's not your problem. I know you want to help, but your friend needs to be responsible for his/her actions. Tell your friend what you think, and urge him/her to be honest with the doctor. If he/she isn't honest, then he/she will suffer the consequences and it won't be your fault.
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It sounds suspiciously like a homework question, but here we go...\n\nAt this point, her body is producing significant amounts of catecholamines, hormones such as adrenalin, etc. These hormones cause the heart rate in increase and the blood vessels to constrict. The idea is to get more blood to the vital organs.\n\nThere is a fairly narrow window here to resuscitate the patient. Once the blood pressure starts to fall, she's on a slippery slope in the wrong direction.\n\nThings to add for extra points:\nThe FIRST things that will change in a patient in hypovolemic shock (low blood volume) is a change in her mental status and a drop in urinary output. This is from reduced circulation to the brain and kidneys.\n\nGood luck!
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I was once in her position and the most helpful thing was the love and support of everyone around me. She needs professional help and will not be able to get through this hard time without it! Make sure she is seeing a doctor about this problem and make sure you are there for her 100%! She needs to know how many people truly love and care for her right now! Assure her that she is going through nothing unusual and that she can make it through. If either of you are religious, I recommend saying prayers together and regularly attending church. Faith can help you through so much! If neither of you ar religious, just stick to the professional help and make sure she has a support group (friends and family) throughout her recovery! Good luck!
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My grandfather had congestive heart failure;he had a leaky valve that was non-operable . He still lived to be 88 years old;he lived for 15 years with that condition. Another close family member was diagnosed with congestive heart failure at age 48;he should have a normal life expectancy anyway. Medicines are much better than they were 30 years ago. We also now know that diet is very important:stay away from high sodium foods which can kill a person with congestive heart failure because it causes serious fluid retention. People much younger than your brother have been diagnosed with heart failure;children have it also because heart failure occurs when an illness damages the heart muscle. Some people are born with defective hearts. There maybe a chance that after your brother regains his strength that the cardiologists may want to try to operate on the main artery.Doctors do not want to operate on people who are very frail because it is a very stressful recovery.For now,your brother needs to take his medications,follow his diet.For more information,go to the website of The American Heart Association. Also,look up mywebmd.com.
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If the condition has no name, than all I can tell you are the effects of what she's going through and what she can expect in the future.  \n\nImagine alveoli as tiny inflatable balloons in your lungs.  When you breathe in, they stretch, filling with air.  The concentration within the alveoli is very great, and causes a transfer of the oxygen from the alveoli to surrounding blood cells.  This is how the rest of the cells get its energy from blood.\n\nUnfortunately, your friend's alveoli are punctured and cannot inflate as well as they should.  As she breathes, the holes may get larger and become absolutely useless (this is why she is no longer allowed to exersize - to prevent heavy breathing).  \n\nAlveoli are very difficult to treat.  They do not heal like other tissue such as the skin does.  What happens to the alveoli is basically permanent.  If all of the alveoli are useless, than the entire lung is useless.  Also, she is not getting as much oxygen in her blood as she should be, so she might be unusually tired all the time.  \n\nWhile it is a serious case, I do believe that your friend will be alright.  If she requires a transplant for replacement alveoli, she can get some from a donor.  If that is not successful, a lung transplant may be in order.  If all goes wrong, she can still be given an automatic respirator.  \n\nI hope I have cleared up any questions you might have about your friend's condition.  I will keep her in my thoughts and prayers.
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yes its difficult but dont loose ur heart but its possible keep in touch with dieticien and cardiologist surgen
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As someone who, like your friend, developed heart failure in middle age (I was 49 at the time), I can tell you that his life expectancy is directly related to how well he takes care of himself.  And that, of course, is bad news for your friend.\n\nAs you realize, he is doing everything wrong.  The shortness of breath would be relieved if he lost weight, gave up the cigarettes and dropped the sodium.  I don't know what medications he was prescribed, but probably at least one of them would help him shed the fluid that may be getting into his lungs and making it harder for him to breathe.  \n\nIt's no wonder he is always fatigued.  How would anyone feel if they have reduced heart function and reduced lung capacity?\n\nAs to his other meds, there are wonderful drugs now that can lighten the load on his heart and make it easier for the heart--the part that's still funtioning--to do its job.  If he doesn't take them, he is overstressing the working portion of his heart as it tries to do the job of the entire organ.  It can't, at least not without help.\n\nThe nausea is a very worrisome symptom.  That one suggests angina, which sometimes comes out that way.  His poor heart, overworked as it is, may be sending out distress signals which are perceived as nausea.  \n\nDepending on how much alcohol his is consuming, daily drinking may or may not be a problem.  One or two drinks a day (NO MORE, and NO doubles) actually seems to benefit the heart.  But some people think that if one is okay, four must be great.  It's not.  The beneficial aspects of alcohol completely reverse if you have more than about 2 drinks (just one for a woman).\n\nOverall, this man needs to go back to his doctor and lay all his cards on the table.  Could he be depressed and "giving up"?  That is very common with heart patients.  He needs to tell his doctor *everything* he is doing and not doing, and why.\n\nI believe that patients have rights, and so does your friend.  But he also has children, which means he has a responsibility to be around for them until they are well established on their own.  If he lets himself die while they are still young, they will never fully forgive him.  What's worse, he will have missed out on seeing them grow up, which one of the best parts of life.\n\nGood luck!!
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Some patients have been helped with Beta Blockers\nSee URL\nhttp://www.mayoclinic.com/health/peyronies-disease/DS00427/DSECTION=3\nI hope this is helpful.\nPresident Clinton is apparently affected with this condition.
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my friend had heart surgery and that happened to her due to an infection 2wks after her surgery.  Or it could be a brisk movement has torn stiches, either way have it checked out asap.
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Find all the information you can about it that will show he can still live a productive life. Since it's a genetic disorder, does he have any relatives with it? More specifically parents? Are they still living. If so, you could perhaps point to them and remind him that they are still alive. Also, he is lucky it was discovered BEFORE he died of it. As long as they keep an eye on his heart and aorta, chances are very good for him. Did they start him on a beta blocker? The problem with that medication is sometimes it can cause depression. So, that will compound his worry over his condition. \n\nCheck out this website which I think is the BEST website about Marfan's. This is by a woman who has it. (Also her brother has it, and her father had it.) I think he will find encouragement there. Yes, people used to die from Marfan's in their 30s, but that was before they had treatment for it. \n\nI think you are a good friend to want to help your friend that way. Best of luck. I hope this helps.\n\nhttp://www.io.com/~cortese/marfan/
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The  truly  sad thing  about situations like this  is  that  the  patient -  more often a man - has already  been  having  symptoms for a  while.      His heart has been  trying to g et his  attention with little signals that he has just refused to pay  attention to.    Heart  attack?   Me?    Nahhh.      I'm  not old enough.....  or....   I   feel  great  etc. etc.       That's the  way heart  attacks work.   My bet  is  that he has never had  a  thorough  physical  examination and heart  evaluation in his life\n                              It's too late now, of course, to be looking into  the past.  It's over.    Only  what happens in the future is important.      The  only  thing YOU  can do right now  is take   some  flowers,  and yourself  to the hospital to see him,  and  say all the right things, about how  important it is for him to get  well so he can as soon as possible  get back to his  family that loves him and  needs  him.        Now  what your friend,  his  daughter, can do is a  LOT.     She has  to  help her mother  and other members of the family  to  bully  the heck out of him  to  start   properly  taking  care of himself  for  a change.  He obviously  hasn't   been doing that  because he already knew his cholesterol  was way  up and  did nothing  about it.    Your  friend  needs to  remind her  Dad  that  she needs him,    and  they all do,  and,  goshdarn it, if he doesn't want to   look after his own health for  him,  he should  do it  for  THEM.                    \n                                 The doctors will have run some tests to  determine if  he has some blockages  (my bet is  that he has)   and then make arrangements for him to have  appropriate   treatment. (probably surgery).    After that,  he is going to need to follow strict  doctor's orders,  change his lifestyle, and  stop  neglecting  his health.   If  he  does that,  he has every good chance of being around for a  long time.    Unfortunately men  are   especially bad at  taking  care of  their health.    I guess it's a macho thing.   "I'm  not  going to  get sick.    Nothing wrong  with me.    I'm  tough"      LOL  I wish I had  a  $20  bill for every  time I heard  a man  say that,  or had  some  woman tell me  that  was how her husband  was\n                                   I hope  this helps.    Tell your friend what I  said, and  tell her to tell him  that she wants her Dad  to be  around to  walk her down the Aisle one day,  and  after that,  to be a part of his  grandchildren's  lives.    Tell her to tell him,  that's not a  request,  that's  an order.
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Cardiomyopathy is a chronic and sometimes progressive disease in which the heart muscle (myocardium), is abnormally enlarged, thickened and/or stiffened. The condition typically begins in the walls of the heart's lower chambers (ventricles), and in more severe cases also affects the walls of the upper chambers (atria). The actual muscle cells as well as the surrounding tissues of the heart become damaged. Eventually, the weakened heart loses the ability to pump blood effectively and heart failure or irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias or dysrhythmia) may occur. \n\nThe medication that she is being given is probably being used to help the heart contract or function better.   The medication being given by machine is just to make sure it isn't given too quickly because of how small your child is.\n\nIt is likely she will need some sort of medication the rest of her life.  If she is a candidate for a heart transplant, she will still need to be on some sort of medication the rest of her life.\n\nYou need to speak to your daughters Pediatrian or Cardiac Doctor if you have questions.  This site can't address these questions as well as he/she could for you.
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I know someone, He needed an operation, you need to see a specialist.
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I know what your Friend is going thru. Prayer is the only thing that can help her. I was surprised more people did not answer this. Maybe they did and maybe they did pray for her. Either way please keep me updated if at all possible. I am interested to know the outcome. I will pray for her!
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all cases are never similar. Just ask ur friend 2 follow a check up every 6 month coz when u get operated, doctors burns the small one so that they dont come back, dont worry. be brave n support her
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Challanging...You'll get a new person; the one you know will die, and a new one re-born.\n\nMy dad had a lung transplant...weirdly enough, my co-workers mom had a double lung transplant 5 months after my dad's.\n\nAnyways, when part/all of the lung is removed, oxygen is still needed.  Most HMO's start the poor patient off with heavy oxygen tanks (20-30 lbs).  This is crazy because the patient has a hard time breathing, and to carry heavy oxygen is defeating the purpose.  Have them ask for lighter oxygen tanks (some only weigh 5 lbs).\n\nMost likely, they will have to increase their "Prednisone".  This drug is freaky!  I've found that a side effect is it makes the person MEAN. My dad was one of the most patient, loving, and forgiving humans I've ever meet.  When he was on "Prednisone", I swear, he was possesed by a demone...like in the first Exorcist...just real foul things came out of his mouth...\n\nIf your friend has trouble after the removal of part/all of the lung, then you may suggest to them to look into "Pallitative" care.  This is when a person needs help but IS NOT terminally ill.  Then this person can get nurses to help with medications, monitoring vitals, administering medications, and showers (ect).\n\nHope this helps.