Cardiosclerosis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Cardiosclerosis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
With cardiosclerosis, the heart muscle and valves are affected. The pathological process is accompanied by rapid development of scar tissue, deforming valves or partially replacing the myocardium.
Cardiosclerosis: Causes
The cause of cardiosclerosis may be rheumatism, myocarditis of various etiologies, atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries of the heart, suffered myocardial infarction, dystrophy, myocardial hypertrophy, trauma.
Cardiosclerosis: symptoms
At a cardiosclerosis of the patient disturb arrhythmias,intracardiac conduction is disrupted, chronic heart failure develops, at which dyspnea is observed even in a state of rest and after minor physical exertion, swelling.
With atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis arisestable symptoms of angina pectoris, the heart aneurysm develops rapidly. If the recurrent diseases that caused cardiosclerosis are not eliminated in a timely manner, scar tissue will quickly replace the entire myocardium and completely deform the valves.
Cardiosclerosis: diagnosis
Cicatricial formation can be easily seen whencarrying out of ultrasonic diagnostics. A ECG allows you to record any changes in the rhythm of the heart, determine the aneurysm and postinfarction scars. The diagnosis is based on the results of a comprehensive survey.
Cardiosclerosis: treatment
Treatment of cardiosclerosis is aimed at improvingwork of extant tissues of the myocardium, to slow down the processes of scar tissue formation. The patient is prescribed pharmaceutical preparations that help to eliminate arrhythmia and symptoms of heart failure.
It is very important to consider that it is also necessarycompletely eliminate the underlying cause, which provoked the development of cardiosclerosis. Therefore, the cardiologist works closely with a rheumatologist, a therapist. Doctors of narrow specialization appoint a number of additional studies and recommend drugs for the treatment of rheumatism, atherosclerosis and other concomitant diseases: coronary insufficiency, myocarditis.
