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chest pain, often spreading to the shoulders, arms, and neck due to less blood flow
What is Angina?
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viral infections
What caused Pericarditis?
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can lead to coronary artery disease, heart failure, kidney failure, stroke, and many other heart problems
What is the result of High Blood Pressure?
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The most serious cardiac rhythm disturbance, the lower chambers quiver and the heart can’t pump blood and causes cardiac arrest
What is Ventricular Fibrillation?
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hardening of the artery walls due to plaque build up
What is Atherosclerosis?
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Bad Cholesterol (LDL) build up
What caused Coronary Artery Disease?
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This can lead to a heart attack due to heart damage
What is the result of Coronary Artery Disease?
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Can be seen with a portable ECG monitor such as a Holter.
What is Cardiomyopathy?
300
when a heart muscle becomes weak or stiff, it causes heart problems which affect the heart's ability to pump correctly
What is Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)?
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Sinus impulses are blocked leading to intermittent failure of atrial depolarization
What caused Sinus Exit Block?
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can cause back flow of blood into the lungs, abdomen, and ankles (fluid congestion)
What is the result of Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)?
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may use an ECG to see if you have had a heart attack and also may use a stress test
What is Coronary Artery Disease?
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a bulge in a section of the aorta, the most common place is the belly of the aorta
What is an Aortic Aneurysm?
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previous scarring or damage from heart attacks, electrical problems in a heart
What causes Ventricular Fibrillation?
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can cause a heart attack, stroke, poor circulation to extremities, and can lead to coronary artery disease
What is the result of Atherosclerosis?
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Chest X Rays are the very helpful in diagnosis
What is Congestive Heart Failure?
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The heart muscle to become enlarged and so the heart gets weaker and can’t pump blood
What is Cardiomyopathy?
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no conduction through the atrioventricular(AV) node
What causes a 3rd degree AV block?
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can block blood flow causing blood clots to form and if a clot makes it to the brain it can cause a stroke or death
What is the result of an Aortic Aneurysm?
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an accessory pacemaker in the ventricles will typically activate a ventricular contraction
What is an Escape Rhythm?
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