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Heart is the important organ in our body and it matters just as any other body part. It gets prone to certain diseases and conditions resulting in short-term and long-termdamage as we age. In today’s world, heart disease has become the foremost reason for the death in men and women in India.
Let’s talk about Heart Block! As we all know healthy heart beats 60-100 times per minute and each time the heart beats, electrical signal passes from the upper chamber to the lower chamber. On the way, the signal intimates the heart for contraction and pumps the blood. Once the signal slows down and stops to send the message, this leads to Heart Block affecting the heart rate, rhythm and the beat patterns.
Risk of having heart block increases as the person ages and is more if he/she is having heart diseases. And also, in few cases, it occurs from birth.
First degree: Heart’s electrical signal gradually decreasesbut still it goes on. This is the slightest form of heart block.
Second degree: This type can be symptomatic or asymptomatic. Signals won’t be able to reach the right places. This means heart beat is slowed down.
Third degree: The heart rate and rhythm are very slow and stops completely. There are no electrical messages that gets through. This type an be fatal.
First degree may not have any symptoms
Second and third-degree symptoms include:
As the fatty substance known as plaque is developed inside the artery, it minimizes in blood flow to the heart. This plaque can lead to heat diseases with chest pain or blood clot resulting in heart attack.
Thus, Stent is used to remove the excess fatty substance that is blocking the blood flow by cardiology specialist in Guntur.
Stent is a tiny mesh tube made up of stainless steel or cobalt chromium alloys. This metal mesh tube is placed by catheter into narrowed artery to keep the artery open. Depending on where the stent is placed, the stent restores the blood flow and other fluids by pressing the plaque back against the artery wall. Stent is layered with medication that gradually releases into the adjacent areas, aids in lowering the risks of artery blocking again.
The heart specialist in Guntur may make a tiny incision in your arm, groin or neck to insert the stent. A strand with thin tube known as catheter is pushed through the blood vessel to blocked artery. The tube consists of tiny balloon at the end. The balloon is expanded by the doctor in the blocked artery. This makes the artery wide and the blood flows through it again.
Then the stent is placed inside the artery and the doctor at cardiology hospitals in Guntur removes the catheter and balloon, but the stent remains inside to keep the artery open.
This procedure may take an hour but the patient is advised to stay in the hospital overnight.
Some people may require stent for various heart conditions but majority can prevent heart diseases by making lifestyle changes (diet, exercise) and medications.
Make an appointment with DR. KAMALAKAR KOSARAJU if you experience the symptoms of heart attack for best treatment of heart attack in Guntur.
