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What Is A Thick Wall Around Heart?
Question: what is thick wall around heart
Brief Answer:
pericardium.
Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXX
Welcome to HCM.
Heart is enclosed in a sac called pericardium. It acts like a tough wall, a closed chamber, contains fluid called pericardial fluid which helps the heart contract and move friction less, just like a baby can move in the womb filled with amniotic fluid.
Sometimes, this wall even gets diseased, called pericarditis; torn or inflammed causing problems like chest pain and breathlessness.
I hope this is what all you wanted to learn. please post if you have further queries.
pericardium.
Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXX
Welcome to HCM.
Heart is enclosed in a sac called pericardium. It acts like a tough wall, a closed chamber, contains fluid called pericardial fluid which helps the heart contract and move friction less, just like a baby can move in the womb filled with amniotic fluid.
Sometimes, this wall even gets diseased, called pericarditis; torn or inflammed causing problems like chest pain and breathlessness.
I hope this is what all you wanted to learn. please post if you have further queries.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Is there a medicine or just wait for this chest pain or breathlessness
Brief Answer:
medicine for what?
Detailed Answer:
If the pericardium is diseased, first the cause has to be treated.
For example, it may be inflammed in kidney disease, connective tissue diseases, some infections like tuberculosis etc. Correction of the primary cause usually resolves pericarditis and chest pain.
If pericardium is totally damaged, it may be stripped to relieve pain.
You do not need treatment unless one confirms that pericardium is diseased. There are no drugs for preventing this, there is treatment however.
medicine for what?
Detailed Answer:
If the pericardium is diseased, first the cause has to be treated.
For example, it may be inflammed in kidney disease, connective tissue diseases, some infections like tuberculosis etc. Correction of the primary cause usually resolves pericarditis and chest pain.
If pericardium is totally damaged, it may be stripped to relieve pain.
You do not need treatment unless one confirms that pericardium is diseased. There are no drugs for preventing this, there is treatment however.
Note: For further queries related to coronary artery disease and prevention, click here.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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