I’m not a doctor but 'King Charles's' swollen fingers don’t look like a good sign for his health...
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My wife, who does cardiac ultrasound, immediately asked what his ankles look like. This is a sign of very bad circulation caused by congestive heart failure. It has to do with low ejection fraction of the heart and it is just not pumping at effective capacity to push blood back through the veins.
My dad had an ejection fraction of like 15, meaning his heart was only pumping at 15% of its rated output. He was fine, not swollen like this, and had it under control with a lot of blood thinners. He tired out easily.
This can happen to very tall people since the heart has to pump the blood all the way down to the feet and push it back up to the heart again. (Tall like Marfan syndrome tall, think Andre the Giant.) Enlarged heart in a confined chest cavity doesn't have room to "move", you know like big gulp in, big push out kind of thing. It can only manage small gulp in and then maximum push back out which isn't very big.
This is why heart inflammation and fluid around the heart and pericarditis are bad things. They all effect the efficiency of the heart muscle to effectively expand and contract as it should.
High blood pressure has the effect of making the heart work harder, leading to enlarged heart muscle, less room to move, lower ejection fraction. Slow flow. Blood clots. Heart attacks. Strokes. Silent killer. Sometimes building up large muscle mass is not a good thing. Tough muscle, sure. Enlarged heart, not good.
Thank you for that Info...very interesting...👍
Interesting! Thank you for posting that info. What can be done for it?
Like in my dad's case, it was blood thinner. The heart works hard, just it pushes more bang for the buck when the fluid is thinner.
Other treatments are Coreg. My wife says her cardiologists call it a "heart transplant in a pill".
My dad died from COPD due to his exposure to things in the air during his time in the Navy. Asbestos, diesel exhaust, hydraulic oil mist, pretty much anything bad in a confined space. (I should know, I followed in his footsteps - submariner) He also smoked. Could be toluene, high CO2 (10x your level on the surface (weird terminology)), abnormal pressure changes, etc. There is no treatment for lungs. Take care of them at all costs. You can get an artificial heart (Jarvic), not lungs.
Thank you for answering. It sounds as though you're saying the only help is through medical intervention. So it's not something a person can improve via lifestyle changes .. I was hoping there were other options too. Sorry about your dad. Thanks to both of you for your service. I hope you don't smoke. Take care of yourself. Your loved ones want to keep you around.
Sorry I didn't respond sooner. I think the alternatives are a pacemaker/defibrillator installation. There is a procedure where they actually remove part of the heart muscle that has grown too large. Its kind of a more risky procedure. Medicinal treatments are much less risky and work as well.
My mom took the vax. She is 82. Within a year she was atb15% and the Dr said that she gets a pace maker or she goes home to die. She chose the surgery.
Excellent info pede