IMED3001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Valvular Heart Disease, Hypertensive Heart Disease, Coronary Artery Disease
26 Mar 2020
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(ef), worse nyha class, lower bp, higher diuretic usage. Why do we need to understand pathogenesis: multidisciplinary management of heart failure. Risk factors and aetiology of heart failure: patient. 2/3 aged 65 years and over: past decade age-standardised rates of hospitalisation and deaths from hr have fallen for both and women, despite this rates of hospitalisation and death in aboriginal and torres strait. Heart failure-aetiologies: common final manifestation of several known and many unknown: coronary artery disease, valvular disease (e. g mitral regurgitation, hypertension, arrhythmia (e. g. atrial fibrillation, alcohol, primary: cardiomyopathy (idiopathic/ genetic/ familial, chemical toxins -chemotherapeutic agents, cocaine, post-partum/ peri-partum. Viral (e. g. adenovirus: metabolic (e. g. thyrotoxicosis, pulmonary embolism. Pathophysiology: reduced pump function may result from: a fall in contractility of the myocardium (fig. Hfpef: more likely to be women, aged >65 y, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, what proportion of hf patients have. Assess lv ef, for lvh, diastolic dysfunction: cardiac catheterisation.
