Pacemaker failure induced radiotherapy
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58 years old male with long term cardiac trouble old MI,high amaylase,lipase suggesting drug induced pancreatitis with high blood sugar now normal lipase high amaylase,controlled blood sugar with insulin,stent done 3 years ago,mitral valve regurgitation,low ejection fraction had mitral valve clipping,CRD ,ejection fraction raised nearly double,cardiac muscle contraction improved,no more dyspnea still directly after operation had fever,attacks,suspected pulmonary embolism due to bilateral lower
Is your uncle a heart failure patient? Furosmide is medication as a diuretic to prevent congested heart failure. The medication should provide relief for shortness of breath, and the only association with shortness of breath would be that medication is not effective and there is some pulmonary edema and the heart is not pumping effectively.... the blood is backing up into the lungs and causing SOB (relative to the diuretic ineffective).
t find anything. Originally I thought a pacemaker may be of some benefit, but the article I saw said that with Atrial Fibrillation, it only works for people that are Tachy-Brady (and some limited circumstances)
Please see the following link (copy and paste if it's not clickable). Hope this is of some help, you've been through so much.
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I've had a pacemaker for 28 years now. And because of the amount of time I have had my pacer I have gone into heart failure. My doctor is planing on putting a bivent. pacer in me in about a month. My pacemakers normally have lasted me 7-8 years. I was just wondering how long is the life expectancy of the new pacemaker.
That is a very complicated question. If you visit the FDA site they have information on what are called "elective replacement indications", as well as full discussions on the various reasons for ,pacemaker failure. They also have detailed physician's manuals on various models of Pacemaker.
my father had a heart attack in 1984, a pacemaker four years ago andnow is diagnosed with heart failure, is this normal?
Pacemaker batteries will not run out unexpectedly. When a battery is running low, the elective replacement indicator (ERI) is activated. Physicians can detect this activation during a routine office visit. In addition, the battery status and the general functioning of the pacemaker can be tested over the telephone. This is generally done every one to two months.
is the bladder pacemaker only suitable for incontinence or does it also work for people with urine retention caused by antipsychtoic medication?
My Heart Doctor suggested I have a pacemaker. I opted to NOT have this done becuase of my age and I am 5' & 106 lbs (small frame not much room for the pacemaker). I have been told by others that they had problems with the pacemaker and wish they had not done this. I had a blood test done recently and my kidney's were fine and I don't have trouble breathing or fluid. I don't want to go through the surgery of the pacemaker.
I don't believe a pacemaker is used to control AFib. Perhaps your father has other heart problems. The most common use for a pacemaker is to keep the heart from beating too slow, or stopping. Some times a PM is used when the heart electrical system has to be totally shut down, in which case there would be no AFib or other arrhythmia, but this is not done to my knowledge, to control AFib.
I have a pacemaker and still have pvc's and pac's but the pacemaker is set to only let so much time go between beats so if there is too long a pause it will pick up and beat for you. Yes, they are frustrating but not dangerous at all. I also had pauses for seconds before pm and I know how scary that can be but don't worry!
To add to what already has been said a pacemaker is needed when the system's natural pacemaker (sinus node in the right atrium) may be irregular. Your medication helps control high blood pressure and probably would be prescribed without a pacemaker.
The pacemaker itself should not be a deterent from having an ablation. I've had a pacemaker for 6 years (because of an ablation actually), and then had another ablation about a year ago. Unfortunately, the ablations don't work for me, but I have IST, not SVT so hopefully they're more effective for that.
Permanent pacing right ventricle long term can cause heart failure. The heart is getting lazy and rely on the pacemaker. Mine one like that too. My cardio now programs to sense the Atrial and pace the ventricle when necessary. It reduces the pacing in ventricle. Before he set to 70's. Most of the time is pacing. Now I ask him to set it to 60. My heart is paced 20% less than before. Hope it helps.
Three years later she suffured from sudden heart failure. The cardiologist who was amazing and saved her life could not find a cronic issue with her heart. He said that quite simply it appeared as if the electrical impulses had just stopped. Because of this incident she had a defrib/pacemaker put in her chest. A month after she came home, she continued on imuran and her pacemaker went off.
It is an abnormal cardiac rate or rhythm (arrhythmia). The condition is caused by a failure of the sinus node to maintain its pacemaker function or by a defect in the electrical conduction system. Examples of arrhythmia include:
Bradycardia (slow heart rate),
Ectopic beat (Premature Atrial or Ventricular Contraction)
Heart Block
Tachycardia (a very fast heart rate) examples of this, to name a few...
A person in heart failure should be on a cocktail of drugs and usually a pacemaker or ICD is implanted, but even then it won't stop the heart from failing completly.
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As to why her doctor did not order a pacemaker I can only guess he assumed her case was too far gone and the risk of the procedure did not outweigh the benefits.
You don't have the symptoms of heart failure. With that aside, conditions or medicines that slow the passing of electrical signals through the heart but are not the result of heart damage. These conditions include:
Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid gland), electrolyte imbalances, such as abnormal blood levels of potassium. .
Heart medicines, such as beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, antiarrhythmics, and digoxin can slow the heart rate.
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