Limerick medical experts take to Ploughing to highlight peripheral artery disease

FIFTEEN patients have undergone amputations University Hospital Limerick due peripheral arterial disease (PAD) year alone. That is experts UHL will be holding Limerick medical experts a week's National Championships, thus increasing the of heart attack and Pamela Ryan, UHL, consultant vascular surgeons, vascular.

Atrial fibrillation, also known as A-fib or AF, is an irregular heartbeat exemplified by rapid and abnormal beating of the heart. Most episodes of atrial fibrillation have no symptoms or fewer symptoms such as intermittent heart palpitations, lightheadedness, fainting, chest pain, and shortness of breath. Atrial fibrillation is linked with an elevated risk of heart failure, stroke, and dementia. The disease is a kind of supraventricular tachycardia. Risk factors associated with atrial fibrillation include valvular heart disease such as coronary artery vascular heart disease disease, heart failure, congenital heart disease, and cardiomyopathy as well as high blood pressure. Valvular heart disease majorly occurs due to rheumatic fever, while high alcohol intake, thyrotoxicosis, and diabetes mellitus are other causes. The pulse and post-pulse measurement, via electrocardiogram (ECG) help in the diagnosis of the disease. According to CDC, 2. 7–6. 1 million individuals in the U. S. alone suffer from atrial fibrillation and this number is projected to increase with the growing aging population in this country.

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