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Heart Block
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Prognosis is good. Most people recover within three weeks to several months and do not need any additional treatment.
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Constrictive pericarditis is long-term(chronic) inflammation of the sac-like covering of the heart(the pericardium) with thickening, scarring, and muscle tightening( contracture).
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Cardiac tamponade is the compression of the heart that occurs when blood or fluid builds up in the space between the myocardium(the muscle of the heart) and the pericardium(the outer covering sac of the heart).In this condition, blood or fluid col...
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Cardiac tamponade occurs when the heart is squeezed by fluid that collects inside the sac that surrounds it.The heart is surrounded by a sac called the pericardium. When this sac becomes filled with fluid, the liquid presses on the heart, preventi...
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Heart block refers to a delay in the normal flow of electrical impulses that cause the heart to beat. They are further classified as first-, second-, or third-degree block.The muscles of the heart contract in a rhythmic order for each heart beat, ...
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An arrhythmia is a disorder of the heart rate(pulse) or heart rhythm, such as beating too fast(tachycardia), too slow(bradycardia), or irregularly.Dysrhythmias; Abnormal heart rhythms; Bradycardia; Tachycardia.Normally, the four chambers of the he...
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An arrhythmia is an abnormality in the heart''s rhythm, or heartbeat pattern. The heartbeat can be too slow, too fast, have extra beats, skip a beat, or otherwise beat irregularly.Arrhythmias are deviations from the normal cadence of the heartbeat,...
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