Left chest pain

LEFT BREAST PAIN: THE FIRST SIGNS OF CHD Dr Tran Thai Hoa - Specialty Cardiology, Vietnam France Hospital in Hanoi Left chest pain may be the beginning of coronary artery disease, if the delay to occur, the risk of complications is very high mortality Coronary artery Is called coronary artery bifurcation of the blood, nourishing oxygen to the heart muscle. Coronary artery disease is a disease like? Coronary artery disease is often related to the situation in the heart of coronary artery blockage (caused by plaque causing stenosis or off by filling vessels causing blood clots) or coronary artery spasm. Chest pain: You should know, myocardial extremely sensitive to ischemia. Just a small anemia can also cause pain, just a lack of blood in a short time can cause necrosis. Chest pain due to coronary occlusion causing myocardial infarction is usually chest pain at rest. Chest pain due to narrowed coronary chest pain usually occurs with exertion by the time the heart work harder and harder and requires more blood to the heart. The cause of ischemic heart disease Usually caused by atherosclerosis causes, the state of lipid deposition in the coronary atherosclerosis make the piece gradually narrowing of coronary heart. Cardiovascular risk factors These risk factors include hypertension, dyslipidemia (high LDL, low HDI, high triglycerides), smoking, obesity, diabetes, family history of premature coronary artery disease, age after 40- 50, .... What to do when left chest pain? Once you have left chest pain should not disregard that ignored. Let's go check out if you are not in a coronary or cardiovascular center that, especially if you have multiple risk factors for this disease. Specialist doctor may ask you to do some blood tests and trials as appropriate: ECG, exercise stress test, echocardiography, coronary CT shooting MS, coronary angiography. You should strictly follow the indications for treatment. Besides the medication was prescribed doctors, you also need to make lifestyle changes: Quitting smoking, losing weight if overweight, treatment of diabetes, hypertension treated positively, exercise in moderation, reducing the workload ... And if more severe disease may require cardiac intervention. It should be noted that: Not all cases of coronary artery disease are manifested clearly left chest pain. Sometimes only the left chest throbbing expression or very mild pain. There are many cases of coronary artery narrowing really, myocardial ischemia was really, but almost no or few symptoms. In this case, in the form of ischemic heart disease silent (aka be dumb). This may be the most ominous is easy because most deaths caused by the disease do not notice precaution. Thus, for any form of coronary artery disease, we absolutely should not belittle, the right to the left chest pain. In particular, the high age, alcoholism, smoking, obesity, a history of coronary artery disease, hypertension should seek medical care. With the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and secondary, cardiologist will help you have a healthy heart.