HSS 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ventricular Tachycardia, Rheumatic Fever, Atrial Fibrillation
22 Nov 2018
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Lecture 5 cardiovascular diseases chapter 14 part 3. An aortic aneurysm is a bulge in the aorta that can rupture and cause a rapid death from internal bleeding. Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscles that causes the heart to enlarge and become weaker. Rheumatic heart disease is an inflammatory condition that causes irreversible damage to the heart and heart valves as a result of an untreated infection with group a streptococcus, like strep throat or scarlet fever. An arrhythmia is an abnormal heartbeat that is too fast (tachycardia), too slow (bradycardia), or irregularly paced. Both electrical and plumbing problems are major contributors to disease burden in countries across the income spectrum. The world population is aging rapidly as more children survive to adulthood and more adults survive to very old age. While the life expectancies at birth are quite different in high-income and low-income countries, the life expectancies for adults are more similar.
