There are numerous heart diseases, and each one has its own symptoms and treatment. For some, lifestyle changes and medicine can bring a significant change in improving one’s health, while for others; one may need surgery to make your ticker work well again.
Some of the widely prevailing heart diseases are mentioned below
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
CAD is the most common heart problem. With CAD, you may get blockages in your coronary arteries – the vessels that supply blood to your heart. That can lead to a decrease in the flow of blood to your heart muscle, keeping it from getting the oxygen it needs.
Coronary heart disease can give you pain in your chest, called angina, or lead to a heart attack.
Heart Arrhythmias
When you have an arrhythmia, your heart has an irregular beating pattern. Serious arrhythmias often develop from other heart problems but may also happen on their own.
Heart Failure
With heart failure, your heart doesn’t pump blood as well as it should to meet your body’s needs. It is usually caused by coronary artery disease, but it can also happen because you have thyroid disease, high blood pressure, heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy), or certain other conditions.
Heart Valve Disease
Your heart has four valves that open and close to direct blood flow between your heart’s four chambers, the lungs, and blood vessels. A defect could make it hard for a valve to open and close the right way. When that happens, your blood flow could be blocked or blood can leak. Your valve may not open and close right.
Pericardial Disease
Any disease of the pericardium, the sac that surrounds your heart, is called a pericardial disease. One of the more common diseases is pericarditis or inflammation of the pericardium.
It’s usually caused by an infection with a virus, inflammatory diseases such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, or injury to your pericardium. Pericarditis often follows open heart surgery.
Cardiomyopathy (Heart Muscle Disease)
Cardiomyopathy is a disease of your heart muscle, or myocardium. It gets stretched, thickened, or stiff. Your heart may get too weak to pump well.There are many possible causes of the disease, including genetic heart conditions, reactions to certain drugs or toxins (such as alcohol), and infections from a virus. Sometimes, chemotherapy causes cardiomyopathy.
Congenital Heart Disease
Congenital heart disease happens when something goes wrong while the heart is forming in a baby that’s still in the womb. The heart defect sometimes leads to problems right after birth, but other times there aren’t any symptoms until you become an adult.
