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Life Expectation After 3rd Stage Congestive Heart Failure
My husband was told he is in 3rd stage congestive heart failure 3 years ago now the new stress shows bottom of the heart has damage and is not working,he already has lost the back of the heart from a previous heart attack.He now has the water retention again and the leg cramps he had before the last heart attack.How much more can we expect? He already hsa a pacemaker/difublator in plaec can I trust that to save him?
hi sorry to hear about your husband prognosis of every patient is different ,golden rule of medical science is that there is no rule so remain hopeful the role of the defibrillator is to shock the heart when rythm of heart is disturbed but as chf is in stage 3 ,its not always possible for the defibrillator to revert the rythm back if ejection fraction of his heart is less then 20% ,prognosis is poor water retention should immidiately be treated by diuretcs ,muscle cramp is because of the electrolyte disbalance (serum electrolytes should be monitored every alternate day
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Life Expectation After 3rd Stage Congestive Heart Failure
hi sorry to hear about your husband prognosis of every patient is different ,golden rule of medical science is that there is no rule so remain hopeful the role of the defibrillator is to shock the heart when rythm of heart is disturbed but as chf is in stage 3 ,its not always possible for the defibrillator to revert the rythm back if ejection fraction of his heart is less then 20% ,prognosis is poor water retention should immidiately be treated by diuretcs ,muscle cramp is because of the electrolyte disbalance (serum electrolytes should be monitored every alternate day