Angina pectoris

Heart Disease in Women and their Unique Symptoms of a Heart Attack Introduction: Heart attacks are a very serious condition of the human body that require immediate attention. Heart attacks are known in the medical community as myocardial infarctions: myo- means muscle, cardio- means heart, -al means pertaining to; infarct means death of tissue (med term book). The parts come together as: tissue death pertaining to heart muscle (med term book). Each year, around one and half million cases of…

Normal ST segment should not be elevated and N.K’s shows ST segment elevated in ER. 6) What is the most likely diagnosis for patient # 1, angina or and acute myocardial infarction? Why key evidences led you do that conclusion? N.K. acute myocardial infarction, because ST segment is elevated and T wave is peaked meaning he is not getting enough oxygen. 7) examine the patient's history and…

debility, impaired gait, functional deficits, actinic keratosis, adjustment disorder with depressed mood, Alzheimer’s dementia disease with late onset with behavioral disturbance, atherosclerotic heart disease of native coronary artery without angina pectoris, lymphedema, not elsewhere classified, mixed hyperlipidemia and muscle weakness. At today’s visit he is accompanied by his case manager Laura. He is awake and disoriented. He appears confused and is a poor historian due to his Alzheimer…

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There are two allelic polymorphisms (A1 and A2). Premature myocardial infarction, unstable angina and coronary stent thrombosis are associated with A2. There are three genotypes: normal (A1/A1), heterozygous (A1/A2) and homozygous (A2/A2). Caucasian population A1/A1 64% A1/A2 34% A2/A2 2% Homozygous wild-type (A1/A1) Normal Heterozygous (A1/A2)…

efficiently (Dulson et. al., 2011). Due to the extensive plaque buildup in these arteries, which concomitantly decreases the elasticity of these vessels, proper oxygenated blood flow is impeded and may lead to several complications such as angina pectoris (or simply angina) and possibly a myocardial infarction…

Menorrhagia: A Cause of Iron Deficiency Anemia Ms. A., a 26-year-old Caucasian female, presents to the emergency clinic with complaints of feeling light-headed while playing in a golf tournament on a mountainous course. She also reports having increased shortness of breath and decreased energy as well as low enthusiasm. Ms. A. reports a history of menorrhagia and dysmenorrheal for the last 10-12 years and for 6 days during her menstrual cycle she takes 1gm of aspirin every 3 to 4 hours. She…

car is the 1967 AC Shelby Cobra created by Carroll Shelby. Carroll Shelby completely changed the automobile industry with his creation of the Shelby Cobra. In May of 1960, Carroll Shelby received distressing news. He had been diagnosed with angina pectoris-- an hereditary disease of the heart-- which prompted him to prematurely retire from his racing career. Although, while the diagnosis had the obvious adverse effect of ending his career,…

There are two main types of side effects associated with the use of Hydralazine. These are an extended influence of the drug’s pharmacologic effect, where these is headache, flushing, hypotension, nausea, tachycardia, dizziness, palpitation and angina pectoris, and can also cause salt retention in congestive heart failure (Arce et al. 2006).these adverse effects can be described even within the therapeutic range, conversely patients may withstand up to 800mg or more daily. Hydralazine poisonings…

medical students even before their start in medical education. In a 12 minutes video, the students watched a general practitioner consult with an explanation given by a gender expert on gender differences regarding presentation and risk factors on angina pectoris and communication styles. After watching the video, the applicants were asked to formulate learning objectives and to think of which learning activities they wished for when given 40 hours. The applicants were limited in their word…