One of the biggest causes of heart failure is a major heart attack. A heart attack keeps oxygen from reaching the myocardial cells in the heart, which leads to heart failure. This is because the damaged tissue is unable to contract anymore. A heart attack can vary in the amount of damage it causes to the heart due to the size of the artheroma and the location in the coronary artery. Learn more by watching this video.
This is an excellent video brought to you by UCSF’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. The video explores different types of treatments and how to manage Cardiovascular disease. “Join William Grossman, MD., Chief, Division of Cardiology, UCSF for a look at the use of drug therapy in the treatment of Atherosclerotic Heart and Vascular Disease. Series: Osher Lifelong Learning Presents [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 11317]” I hope you all enjoy this video as it is very interesting. Thanks to UCSF for putting it on the internet.
“Hawthorn extract has ‘significant benefit’ for patients with chronic heart failure, and seems to be safe, researchers conclude based on a literature review they conducted. ” (Daily Times). There is supposedly a new herbal remedy to help heart failure patients. This new treatment was tested on heart failure patients and it actually seemed to decrease the number of people experiencing shortness of breath and or fatigue. This testing was done on an exercise bike. Researchers have concluded that the herbal remedy may help a few patients but that they must still ask their doctors before trying them out. The secret of the herbal remedy seems to be that it improves blood flow and increases the power of the heart’s contractions. Read more HERE.
I am currently working with a directx 10 engine from Microsoft to create an interactive application to teach users more about heart failure. Although the videos on this site may be interactive enough to some people, I want the users to choose what they want to learn about. This interactive application will allow the user to walk around in a graphic environment and to look at pictures and read information about what they see. Even though this is a very long and hard process to get it working, I think it will be able to help many people out. The program will be available for free to all users on this site. Keep in mind that it will only work with Windows Vista and directx 10 compatible video cards. Currently, the best video card that will work is from Nvidia and is the 8800 model. However, all Nvidia 8 series cards will work. If you meet these system requirements and would like to beta test the program, please drop me an email at alexhakimi@gmail.com. I look forward to meeting a few beta testers. I will also be posting screen shots and work in progress videos soon.