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Prevention and Tips

In order to minimize the probability and risk of heart failure, we should take some preventive steps.Major steps are discussed below..

1) Give up Smoking
2) Avoid Alcohol
3) Accustomed to Walking
4) Eat Nutritious and Balanced Food
5) Follow Doctor's Advice
6) By Regular Exercise
7) Reducing Your Weight
8) Take preventive Steps to Balance Your Blood Pressure



Some prevention for main categories of heart diseases

Prevention for Alcoholic cardiomyopathy

By Diagnosis
Abnormal heart sounds, murmurs, ECG abnormalities, and enlarged heart on chest x-ray may lead to the diagnosis. Echocardiogram abnormalities and cardiac catheterization or angiogram to rule out coronary artery blockages, along with a history of alcohol abuse can confirm the diagnosis.
By Treatment
Treatment for alcoholic cardiomyopathy involves lifestyle changes, including complete abstinence from alcohol use, a low sodium diet, and fluid restriction, as well as medications. Medications may include ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, and diuretics which are commonly used with other forms of cardiomyopathy to reduce the strain on the heart. Persons with congestive heart failure may be considered for surgical insertion of an ICD or a pacemaker which can improve heart function. In cases where the heart failure is irreversible and worsening, heart transplant may be considered.
Treatment will possibly prevent the heart from further deterioration but is unlikely to reverse the reduced function that has already occurred.

Prevention for congenital heart defect

By Treatment
Sometimes CHD improves without treatment. Other defects are so small that they do not require any treatment. Most of the time CHD is serious and requires surgery and/or medications. Medications include diuretics, which aid the baby in eliminating water, salts, and digoxin for strengthening the contraction of the heart. This slows the heartbeat and removes some fluid from tissues. Some defects require surgical procedures to restore circulation back to normal and in some cases, multiple surgeries are needed. Interventional cardiology now offers patients minimally invasive alternatives to surgery. Device closures can now be performed with a standard transcatheter procedure using a closure device mounted on a balloon catheter.
Most patients require life-long specialized cardiac care, first with a pediatic cardiologist and later with and adult congential cardiologist. There are more than 1.8 million adults living with congenital heart defects.


Prevention for Cardiomyopathy,

By Treatment
Treatment depends on the type of cardiomyopathy, but may include medication, implanted pacemakers, defibrillators, or ventricular assist devices (LVADs), or ablation. The goal of treatment is often symptom relief, and some patients may eventually require a heart transplant. Treatment of cardiomyopathy (and other heart diseases) using alternative methods such as stem cell therapy is commercially available but is not supported by convincing evidence.

Prevention for Ischaemic or ischemic heart disease

Various treatments are offered in people deemed to be at high risk of coronary artery disease. These include control of cholesterol levels in those with known high cholesterol, smoking cessation, and control of high blood pressure.

Prevention for Left ventricular hypertrophy

By Treatment
The enlargement is not permanent in all cases, and in some cases the growth can regress with the reduction of blood pressure
Prevention for Coronary disease (or coronary heart disease

By Treatment
Lifestyle changes
·         Lifestyle changes that may be useful in coronary disease include.
·         Weight control
·         Smoking cessation
·         Exercise
·         Healthy diet  A healthy diet would include the reduction of animal based foods and an increase in plant based foods.
·         Medications to treat coronary disease
·         Cholesterol lowering medications, such as satins, are useful to decrease the amount of "bad" (LDL) cholesterol.
·         Nitroglycerin
·         ACE inhibitors, which treat hypertension and may lower the risk of recurrent myocardial infarction.
·         Calcium channel blockers and/or beta-blockers
·         Aspirin
·         Surgical intervention
·         Angioplasty
·         Stents (bare-metal or drug-eluding)
·         Coronary artery bypass
·         Heart Transplant

Prevention for myocarditis

By Therapy
As most viral infections cannot be treated with directed therapy, symptomatic treatment is the only form of therapy for those forms of myocarditis. In the acute phase, supportive therapy including bed rest is indicated. For symptomatic patients, digoxin and diuretics provide clinical improvement. For patients with moderate to severe dysfunction, cardiac function can be supported by use of inotropes such as Milrinone in acute phase followed by oral therapy with ACE inhibitors (Captopril, Lisinopril) when tolerated. Patients who do not respond to conventional therapy are candidates for bridge therapy with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). Heart transplantation is reserved for patients who fail to improve with conventional therapy.