cardio: left sided heart failure

Question 1

hear failure is when:

Answer 1

the heart cant pump enough blood to meet demands

Question 2

diastolic heart failure

Answer 2

Low stroke volume due to low total volume, niormal ejcetion fraction but there is abnormal filling of the ventricle so not enough to pump out

Question 3

systolic heart failure

Answer 3

Stroke volume ejection fraction is small, normal total volume- stoke volume is small

Question 4

left sided heart failure is usually casued by:

Answer 4

systolic: pumping

Question 5

causes of Left sided heart failure in systolic

Answer 5

• ischemic heart disease
• long stangin hypertension
• dilated cardiomyapothy

Question 6

heart failure: ischemic heart disease

Answer 6

systolic
casues damage to the myocardium, cant contract forecefully
- ischemic heart disease casued by atherosclerosis which damages myocardium

Question 7

heart failure: long standing hypertension- systolic

Answer 7

systolic
- arterial pressure increaseg, making harder for left ventricle to pump blood out into hypertension systemic circulation
- hypertrophy occurs: muscle mass bulks up, greater demand for oxygen, so some muscles become weaker, weakened contraction

Question 8

heart failure: dilated cardiomyopathy

Answer 8

systolic
heart chanmber dilates so that more blood can fill, stretch out muscle walls and get stronger contraction whch helps for a while but then eventually muscles thin so much that left sided heart failure occurs

Question 9

heart failure: long standing hypertension: diastolic

Answer 9

diastolic
in hypertension, hypertrophy is concentric - moves into ventricular space so less room for filling causing heart failure

Question 10

heart failure: aortic stenosis

Answer 10

diastolic
- casues concentric hypertrophy, naroowing of the aortic valve opening

Question 11

heart failure: restrictive cardiomyopathy

Answer 11

diastolic
heart muscle gets stiffer and less comaoliant, cant stretch and fill

Question 12

causes of Left sided heart failure in diastolic

Answer 12

• long standing hypertesion
• aortic stenosis
• hypertrophicmyopathy
• restrictive cardiomyopathy

Question 13

heart failure: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Answer 13

a genetic cause of concentric hypertrophy

Question 14

medicartion for left sided heart failure

Answer 14

ace inhibitors - dilate blood vessels
diruetics- can help reduce fluid build up and therefrore blood pressure