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A question for your pharmacist
Living with Heart Failure |
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 Pharmacist
Your pharmacist is a good resource for information about medications. Ask if any drug you're taking interacts badly with certain foods or with other drugs, including nonprescription ones. Your pharmacist also can help you understand product package inserts and label instructions. You can also click Medications to access information about heart medications from lifeclinic.com.
Glossary
Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor--A drug used to decrease pressure inside blood vessels.
Arrhythmia--An irregular heartbeat.
Cardiomyoplasty--A surgical procedure that involves detaching one end of a back muscle and attaching it to the heart. An electric stimulator causes the muscle to contract to pump blood from the heart.
Congestive heart failure--A heart disease condition that involves loss of pumping ability by the heart, generally accompanied by fluid accumulation in body tissues, especially the lungs.
Diastolic heart failure--Inability of the heart to relax properly and fill with blood as a result of stiffening of the heart muscle.
Dyspnea--Shortness of breath.
Echocardiography--Recording sound waves bounced off the heart to produce images of the heart.
Edema--Abnormal fluid accumulation in body tissues.
Electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG)--Measurement of electrical activity associated with heartbeats.
Heart failure--Loss of blood-pumping ability by the heart.
Left ventricular assist device--A mechanical device used to increase the heart's pumping ability.
Pulmonary congestion (or edema)--Fluid accumulation in the lungs.
Sudden cardiac death--Cardiac arrest caused by an irregular heartbeat.
Systolic heart failure--Inability of the heart to contract with enough force to pump adequate amounts of blood through the body.
Valves--Flap-like structures that control the direction of blood flow through the heart.
Sources for this report include the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, and the American Heart Association.
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