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Ilness of Heart  Heart failure  Arrhythmia

■Heart failure Difficulty:★★★☆☆
The quantity of blood which the heart needs cannot be sent out with heart failure. It is the state where the heart is weakened.
Various symptoms may appear because the heart cannot send out required quantity of blood.
■Symptom
Heart failure has the following features depending on how to happen etc.
Acute cardiac insufficiency The condition of heart failure appears suddenly. Urgent hospitalization is required.
Chronic heart failure The condition of heart failure appears continuously.
Aggravation of a chronic heart failure Condition becomes serious by a certain cause.
 Moreover, the following is mentioned as a condition of heart failure.
・Stuffy
・Swelling
・Easy to be tired
 ■ Therapeutic method
Component name Digoxin
Usage Taking orally
Structure Strengthen the power to shrink and to expand by sending calcium required for the muscles of the heart.
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Side effects As main side effects, a rash, a woman type breast and loss of muscle strength, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, an abnormal vision, giddiness, headache, digitalis intoxication, etc. may happen.

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■Arrhythmia  Difficulty:★★★★☆
Abnormal heart rhythm means that the stroke of the pulse of the heart becomes abbnormal. The heart is made of muscles and the heart moves by small electricity flowing into the muscles, if abnormalities occur in the flow way of the electricity, or how to flow, the heart may carry out an unexpected motion.This is called abnormal heart rhythm.
Abnormal heart rhythm can be classified roughly as follows .
■Sympton
There is abnormal heart rhythm without symptom, on the other hand, there is abnormal heart rhythm which has palpitation, faint sense of incongruity, breathlessness, chest pain, etc.
It is said that the healthy person may also cause abnormal heart rhythm several times in a day, and it is easy to happen immediately after running etc.
Tachycardia abnormal heart rhythm The state where a part of cycle of cardiac beats has become early.
Bradyasystolic abnormal heart rhythm The state where the cycle of cardiac beats is late by the contrary of tachycardia abnormal heart rhythm.
■ Therapeutic method
Component name Quinidine sulfate
Usage Taking orally
Structure Abnormal heart rhythm improves by suppressing the standup of the 0th phase of action potential by keeping sodium from invading into the Na+ (sodium) channel in a cell membrane.
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Side effects Giddiness, headache, tinnitus, hearing loss, visual impairment, heart failure, condition like systemic lupus erythematosus, etc.
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