Medical hole in heart stroke patients
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The thing you are hoping is for no reoccurrence. My friend of 33 has had a stroke and no after effects but now she is aware she has a hole in her heart. To opt for surgery will mean she doesn't have to worry for the rest of her life if another clot will form and go to her brain. Sometimes the after effects could mean being a prisoner in your body that does not do what you desire or think for it to do.
A patient who has suffered a stroke, specially in the cortex (outer part of the brain), may be susceptible to have seizures coming from the area that suffered the damage from the stroke. And patients who have had a stroke in the past, and have seizures coming from the damaged area will have a higher chance of having subsequent seizures, therefore some patients may require antiepileptic agents.
Having an aneurysmal septum is associated with this finding. Youve had it since birth when the hole in your heart needed for fetal circulation bypasses the lungs as it reaches the right side of the heart, its baffled into the left heart to be pumped to the body.
Upon the first breath, theoretically a flap should close and the hole closed. But its very common that it does not.
Recently my daughter admitted in to hospital due to lung infection and doctor found that there is hole in the heart around 18 mm asd.
I think it is also important to say that ALL babies are born with a hole in the heart and that the hole generally closes in the first year of life. Those children have what is known as a Functional heart murmur. Sometimes the hole doesn't close and treatments depend on the symptomotology of the individual patient.
I had a stroke to my thalamus when I was 29. This was due to me having a PFO, hole in the heart, and just having a baby, 6 weeks after c-section.So they think I had a stroke b/c I have a PFO, and a little thing called Factor V leiden, which means thick blood, which led to me having a stroke at such a young age. I was plagued with migraines forever, before the stroke, after I hardly ever have them now.Id get my heart checked, and have them run that test for factor V, just to be safe.
My father in law had a stroke about a month back. We are getting very little feedback from the doctor and nurses. We tried moving him to another hospital but were told we need a medical reason to move him or our medical insurance will not pay. From the onset of him being unresponsive and immediately admitted to ICU the doctors were not sure of what had happened. Then we were told it was not a stroke.
t leave any very serious damage, but nevertheless he had an operation on his heart to insert a device to block the flow of blood from one chamber to another, as he had a PFO or a small hole in the heart. This was done successfully. He also has an anuyerism on his heart in the same area, which I believe gave rise to the stroke initially, as a clot went to his brain.
He is back at work now, and basically I feel that he is obliged to work far too long for his own good.
I had a hole between the left and right artriums of my heart known as a patent foramen ovale (PFO).
Prior to birth, everyone has this hole to allow blood to bypass the lungs when you're in your mother's womb. Once you take your first breath of air, this hole is supposed to start closing. However, in about 25% of the population, this hole never completely closes.
After lots of tests, the neurologist found I had a hole in my heart. I then had the PFO closure procedure done 12-5-07. I thought this would limit my chances for future strokes, plus got me off the coumadin I was taking. However, about 2 weeks after the PFO closure, I had to run a short distance and I noticed my heart beating irregularly. I laid down and it went away in about 3 hours.
you need to go get a second opinion from a cardiologist I too was diagnosed with a PFO at the age of 28 and i am now 35 and it took me 6 mths to convince them something was wrong due to me having a heart rate of 200 beats per minute they kept saying its my lungs not my heart i finally convinced them by colapsing on the tredmil during a stress test within 10 seconds they then began to do a echo cardiogram and it clearly showed the hole inthe heart and at that point i also begansuffering from seve
The echocariogram (echo) test shows a hole in the heart. The hole causes a blood exchange between chambers rather than pumped in the normal sequence of functionality. If not treated, the heart is overworked and can fail in the longer term.
The procedure using a device that is threaded in collapsed form into the heart by a catheter (narrow tube-like structure) and is opened at the site of the rupture in the ventricle walls.
ve had same problem for 16 yrs this week I had and echo with bubble done on my heart they found a hole in my heart which is normal in 25 percent of population but for me the pfo or hole in my heart causes tia or mini stroke there is a procedure that can fix hole but not approved by fda so not approved
I do, however, continue to recommend 162 milligrams daily (two low-dose aspirin) to patients who already have coronary heart disease, have already had a heart attack or stroke, or who are at high or moderate risk for one and not at risk for gastrointestinal bleeding.
In addition, I now follow the recently revised American Diabetes Association guidelines for aspirin use in people with diabetes.
Stroke volume is a calculation to determine ejection fraction (EF)...the amount of blood pumped into circulation with each heartbeat.
The calulation for EF is volume of blood in the left ventricle at systole (pumping) phase. Subtract the volume left in the ventricle after diastolic (filling) phase. Then divide the volume of blood during systole for a fraction...that would be EF.
Your EF idicates you have a normal pumping heart. Normal is 50 to 70%.
I am wondering if you know how the research on scuba diving resulted with patients having PFO? They theorised that in people with no PFO, the tiny bubbles formed in the venous system become trapped in the lungs and are expelled. However, with PFO the bubbles can cross into the left side of the heart (bypassing the lungs) and end up being trapped in body tissue, causing brain disorders, weakness, dizziness etc.
We do know that we see increasing amount of these changes with age and see greater amounts of change in patients who have high blood pressure and diabetes. In a sense, this is the "end effect" on the brain of having risk factors such as hypertension or diabetes, although not all patients with either condition have such changes. Importantly, patients with these changes do not necessarily have any neurologic problems as a result, unless the changes are very severe.
Because of a very alert and smart neurologist here in my home town, I was giving a TEE test and they found the hole in my heart (the PFO). The PFO is what lets blood clots form and enter the blood stream and goes not only into the brain, but to your organs, such as your kidneys etc. I have had problems with migraines and kidneys and other miscellaneous problems that can now be more than likely, attributed to the PFO. Like kphill said, it's a ticking time bomb.
My doctor ran tests echocardiogram, stress test, ultasound of the artieries in my neck. The echo showed a hole in betweeen the two chambers of my heart. He then sent me to a cardiologist.....and a neurologist. I had an MRI of the brain and neck with Constrast and the MRI showed nothing, no evidence of stroke ...My Cardiologist did a TEE (which I will never have again since i was WIDE awake! The TEE confirmed the echocardiogram to show the hole.
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