full Body scan - Heart disease symptoms

[Dr.Mason Weiss]

All heart disease symptoms vary depending on what kind of heart disease an individual may have, in this article I will cover most of all the symptoms for every different heart disease. One should always remember that self-diagnoses is not the best diagnoses and one should always speak to a cardiologist for further results and testing via heart Scans and in other cases where the problem is harder to identify a full Body scan may be needed.

Symptoms of heart disease in your blood vessels (cardiovascular disease) is caused by narrowed, blocked or stiffened blood vessels that make it so the heart, brain or other parts of the body don’t receive enough blood. Symptoms of cardiovascular disease can include:

• Chest pain

• Shortness of breath

• Pain, numbness, weakness or coldness in your legs or arms

In some cases patients are diagnosed with cardiovascular disease and there symptoms worsen, when this happens one should be very careful because they are at high risk of having a heart attack, stroke, hearth failure or sudden cardiac death.

Abnormal heartbeats, The heart may beat too fast too slowly or irregularly if you have an arrhythmia the symptoms can include:

• Fluttering in the chest

• Racing heart beat

• Slow heart beat

• Chest pain

• Shortness of breath

• Lightheadedness

• Dizziness

• Fainting or near fainting

Heart defects, a defect one is born with usually becomes more evident during the first few hours or days in one’s life, the symptoms can include:

• Pale gray or blue skin

• Swelling in the legs, abdomen, even the eyes

• Shortness of breath during feeding

In less serious cases hear defects may not be noticed until childhood years, these are less threatening but the symptoms can include:

• Shortness of breath very easily

• Easily tiring

• Build up fluid in the heart or lungs

• Swelling in the hands, ankles and feet

One should remember that children do not usually notice these things or do but are not highly concerned. One should always take notice and watch their children as they play and interact, and if one notices their child get tired easy or has shortness of breath or fatigue visit Los Angeles Cardiology to run some test before symptoms go any further.

Heart diease symptoms cause by thick heart muscle, in the earlier stages one may not have any symptoms at all, but as the disease progresses one may experience:
Breathless at any time, during exercise or rest

• Swelling of the legs, ankle, and feet

• Bloating

• Fatigue

• Irregular heartbeats that feel rapid, pounding or fluttering

• Dizziness, lightheadedness and fainting

Heart disease caused by heart infection: there are three types of heart infections pericarditis, affects the tissue around the heart. Myocarditis, affects the muscular muddle layer of the walls of the heart. Endocarditis, affects the inner membrane that separates the chambers and valves of the heart. Symptoms for every infection vary slightly but include:

• Fever

• Weakness or fatigue

• Swelling in your legs of abdomen

• Changes in the heart rhythm

• Dry or persistent cough

• Skin rashes or unusual spots

One should take notice that most heart disease symptoms include: swelling of hands, legs, ankle and feet, shortness of breath and easily tiring. If one has already been diagnosed with heart disease and would like further scans to better identify the problem one should ask their doctor about the 64 slice CT scan.