Physicians and patients aware of how dangerous this disease is atrial fibrillation. The most urgent questions about the disease said leading cardiologist Hospital generalist "Health Plus", Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Pavlov KMN.
Question 1: Irregular heartbeat - what is it?
Answer: A whole class of diseases, including conditions characterized by spasmodic contractions of the heart muscle. Normally complexes are following each other with an equal interval. A range that varies with any arrhythmia.
Question 2: What is atrial different from any other arrhythmia?
Answer: When atrial fibrillation is chaotic, with a high frequency cut atrium. Others arrhythmias represent a breach of the rhythm and in the atria and the ventricles. And it is much more dangerous.
Question 3: What are the symptoms of atrial fibrillation?
Answer: Many people do not realize that they have disturbed heart rhythm. Especially if the disease has only just begun, and the attacks occur short. More frequently, the attack lasts for a long time, and the patient clearly feels the problem.
Question 4: How is it diagnosed?
Answer: With the help of the ECG, if you can "catch" the attack. However, the most likely diagnosis using ECG Holter monitoring. It is much more informative.
Question 5: How to attack while the patient is necessary to behave?
Answer: When the diagnosis has been made, the patient must take prescribed beta-blockers are short-acting. You can not be nervous, it is better to drink a sedative. If the attack lasts more than an hour, you need to call an ambulance.
Question 6: What is the danger fraught with bouts of atrial fibrillation?
Answer: It is a disease - one of the most dangerous cardiac diagnoses. The restoration of the patient's heart rhythm at the doctor there is only 48 hours. Further increases the risk of blood clots and embolisms. And then, without treatment, the attacks will become harder and longer. This will lead to congestive heart failure, which can result in pulmonary edema.
Question 7: What causes atrial fibrillation?
Answer: Reasons not exactly clarified. At some point in the mouth of the pulmonary veins suddenly formed pockets of high excitation. Perhaps it is the effects of intoxication (alcohol, for example) or age-related changes.
Question 8: What are the methods of treatment of atrial fibrillation?
Answer: Drug therapy in the first place, and a combination of drugs should pick a doctor. The second way - online, that is radiofrequency ablation.
Question 9: Can you talk about the prevention of disease?
Answer: If the time to "catch" the disease can prevent atrial fibrillation. But then necessarily need to be surveyed and still take certain medications.
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