2006-07-08 21:17:14 · 7 answers · asked by Alphonse D 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Ischemic heart problems translates to heart problems related to poor blood circulation.
2006-07-08 21:21:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you mean ischemic heart disease. That is reduced blood supply to the heart. Most often caused by hardening of the coronary arteries. That means that the blood vessels in your heart aren't working right. There is no other way for your heart to get blood so when all of this takes place it is lethal unless you are under a physicians care, and even then there are few surgeries that can help.
2006-07-08 21:34:57 · answer #2 · answered by Carrie C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In medicine, ischemia (Greek ισχαιμία, isch- is restriction, hema or haema is blood) is a restriction in blood supply, generally due to factors in the blood vessels, with resultant damage or dysfunction of tissue. It may also be spelled ischaemia or ischæmia.
Rather than in hypoxia, a more general term denoting a shortage of oxygen (usually a result of lack of oxygen in the air being breathed), ischemia is an absolute or relative shortage of the blood supply to an organ. Relative shortage means the mismatch of blood supply (oxygen delivery) and blood request for adequate oxygenation of tissue.
Ischemia can also be described as an inadequate flow of blood to a part of the body, caused by constriction or blockage of the blood vessels supplying it. Ischemia of heart muscle produces angina pectoris.
2006-07-08 21:21:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean Ischemic Heart Problem?
Ischaemic (or ischemic) heart disease is a disease characterized by reduced blood supply to the heart. It is the most common cause of death in most western countries.
Ischaemia means a "reduced blood supply". The coronary arteries supply blood to the heart muscle and no alternative blood supply exists, so a blockage in the coronary arteries reduces the supply of blood to heart muscle.
* Initially there is sudden severe narrowing or closure of either the large coronary arteries and/or of coronary artery end branches by debris showering downstream in the flowing blood. It is usually felt as angina, especially if a large area is affected.
* The narrowing or closure is predominantly caused by the covering of atheromatous plaques within the wall of the artery rupturing, in turn leading to a heart attack (Heart attacks caused by just artery narrowing are rare).
* A heart attack causes damage to heart muscle by cutting off its blood supply.
This can cause:
* Temporary damage and pain (ischemia)
* Loss of muscle activity (acute heart failure)
* Permanent heart muscle damage, heart muscle does not grow back (acute myocardial infarction /infarct)
* Long term loss of heart muscle activity (chronic heart failure)
* Cardiac arrhythmias: irregular heartbeat which can be fatal. Most death is due to arrhythmias, usually tachyarrhythmias.
* Other structural damage to the heart including damaged heart valves, actual perforation of the heart and a thin walled fibrous floppy heart.
2006-07-08 21:21:57 · answer #4 · answered by sxa93 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ischemic heart disease is a decrease in the blood supply to the heart muscle.
2006-07-09 05:10:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably the question is what is "ischaemia".
ischaemia : A low oxygen state usually due to obstruction of the arterial blood supply or inadequate blood flow leading to hypoxia in the tissue.
2006-07-15 21:02:08 · answer #6 · answered by PK LAMBA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ischemia localized tissue anemia due to the blockage of the flow of arterial blood.
2006-07-08 21:22:54 · answer #7 · answered by kath68142 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋