Cardiovacular Case Study
Cardiovascular Disease-Case study #2
Christian Oyibe
Advanced Clinical Pathophysiology
Nursing 6150
Governor's State University
Professor Savannah Prince
March7, 2012
Introduction Heart disease is often used interchangeably with cardiovascular disease generally refers to conditions that involve narrowed or block vessels that can lead to a heart attack, chest pain (angina) or stroke. Other forms of heart condition, such as infections that affect the heart muscles, and valves or beating rhythm. Known or associated causes of cardiovascular disease include diabetes mellitus hypertension, obesity, hyperhomcysteinmia and hyperchlolerolemia. Heart disease is a broad term used to describe a range of diseases that affect the heart. According to (McCance, Huether, Brashers, & Rote 2010, pp. 1091-12002) heart disease is No. 1 world killer of men and women, and about 16million people in the United States suffer from coronary artery disease, an estimate of 770, 000 and 1 million people have a heart attack each year. Regardless of the decrease in the mortality rate in the past decade, CAD continues to be cause one third of all deaths in the United States. Like many other complications dealing with the human body, cardiovascular disease is happening as we speak and heat attack can strike at any moment.
In atheroclosis the coronary arteries are occluded with time because of the deposition of atherosclerotic plaque which interferes with the arterial function of providing sufficient oxygen to the heart muscles causing the heart to increase demand on cardiac muscles as a result ischemia of the heart can occur, this underlying factor can produce angina pectoris or chest pain. Patients with CAD, atherosclerosis blocked the arteries causing the heart muscles to stop supplying sufficient oxygen to the heart and this is accompanied with intense cheat pain, nausea, sweating, shortness of breath,
Christian Oyibe
Advanced Clinical Pathophysiology
Nursing 6150
Governor's State University
Professor Savannah Prince
March7, 2012
Introduction Heart disease is often used interchangeably with cardiovascular disease generally refers to conditions that involve narrowed or block vessels that can lead to a heart attack, chest pain (angina) or stroke. Other forms of heart condition, such as infections that affect the heart muscles, and valves or beating rhythm. Known or associated causes of cardiovascular disease include diabetes mellitus hypertension, obesity, hyperhomcysteinmia and hyperchlolerolemia. Heart disease is a broad term used to describe a range of diseases that affect the heart. According to (McCance, Huether, Brashers, & Rote 2010, pp. 1091-12002) heart disease is No. 1 world killer of men and women, and about 16million people in the United States suffer from coronary artery disease, an estimate of 770, 000 and 1 million people have a heart attack each year. Regardless of the decrease in the mortality rate in the past decade, CAD continues to be cause one third of all deaths in the United States. Like many other complications dealing with the human body, cardiovascular disease is happening as we speak and heat attack can strike at any moment.
In atheroclosis the coronary arteries are occluded with time because of the deposition of atherosclerotic plaque which interferes with the arterial function of providing sufficient oxygen to the heart muscles causing the heart to increase demand on cardiac muscles as a result ischemia of the heart can occur, this underlying factor can produce angina pectoris or chest pain. Patients with CAD, atherosclerosis blocked the arteries causing the heart muscles to stop supplying sufficient oxygen to the heart and this is accompanied with intense cheat pain, nausea, sweating, shortness of breath,