Myocardial ischemia: Know the risk factors to it keep it at bay

Myocardial ischemia is a heart condition in which your blood flow to the heart is reduced preventing the muscles in the heart to receive required oxygen. This happens either due to complete or partial blockage of your heart arteries. This leads to the reduced ability of your heart muscles to pump blood. If not treated on time, myocardial ischemia can cause heart attack or severe abnormal heart rhythm. If you have this condition, you may experience symptoms like neck or jaw pain, a fast heartbeat, sweating, fatigue, nausea, shortness of breath, vomiting etc. As far as its diagnosis is concerned, doctors perform ECG, stress test, echocardiogram, stress echocardiogram, coronary angiography, or cardiac CT scan. Treatment of myocardial ischemia depends on the severity of the condition. The doctors basically try to improve the blood flow to the heart muscles. A patient with this condition may be prescribed aspirin, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers etc. If the condition is severe, doctor may perform angioplasty and stenting, coronary artery bypass surgery, or enhanced external counterpulsation. To keep myocardial ischemia at bay, you need to know its risk factors first. Read on to know about them.

Smoking: Smoke can damage the inside walls of arteries and allow cholesterol deposits to slow blood flow in the coronary arteries.

Diabetes: Diabetes is associated with an increased risk of myocardial ischemia.

High blood pressure: Hypertension can worsen atherosclerosis, leading to damage to the coronary arteries.

Obesity: Obesity is linked to diabetes, high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol levels, factors which are already known to cause myocardial ischemia.

Sedentary lifestyle: Not being active contributes to obesity, which is already associated with ischemia.

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The Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Wednesday launched a non-invasive procedure to treat angina (chest pain) and heart ailments.

The ‘Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP)’ has been introduced at CMCH at a cost of Rs. 2 crore under a public private partnership. Hospital Dean R. Vimala inaugurated the new wing in the presence of Deputy Medical Superintendent Isaac Christian Moses who is also in charge of the Cardiology Department.

Dr. Vimala said that patients would receive treatment free of cost under the Chief Minister’s Health Insurance Scheme. This treatment was likely to cost between Rs.80, 000 and Rs. 1 lakh at private hospitals.

The CMCH had spent around Rs. 10 lakh for constructing a new building with the rest of cost borne by Vaso-Meditech which installed three equipment each costing Rs. 70 lakh. The CMCH was the second hospital in the State after Madras Medical College to offer this treatment. S. Ramasamy, director of Vaso-Meditech, said that patients who cannot afford surgery such as angioplasty or were at risk of heart failure would benefit from this treatment. In this, pressure was given on the legs for an hour for 35 days.

This would improve the blood flow to the heart and result in the creation of new blood vessels, which become a natural by-pass around the blocked arteries. It had already installed five equipment for this treatment at Madras Medical College last year, he added.

M. Vanithamani, Head, Department of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, D. Chakkravarthi, Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiology, were present.

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