Taking over the care of a 24 years old young lady the other day, she was admitted the night before due to collapse at home. She have had a pacemaker since she's 11. And looking at her with her pony tail, she looked like a 6th grader.
Interventional Cardiology
There are a lot of heart problems that an adult can have in a life time, mostly as a result of one's lifestyle, can be inherited from one's parents, or from other factors that predisposes a person to heart diseases. With interventional cardiology, this focuses mainly with coronary artery blockages or better known as acute coronary syndrome (ACS). A person having a heart attack for instance can developed a deadly heart block, caused by a blocked artery. The patient's heart rate will drop so low, compromising the patient, and needing a temporary PACEMAKER. An adjunct that stimulates the heart to beat on demand or when it is required.
The solution can just be unblocking the artery, wait for the heart to recover, and normalises the heart's rhythm. SIMPLIFIED. If things gets worse, a permanent pacemaker will be needed. For life.
This can be a complete heart block, a side effect of a heart attack.
A 10 year-old pacemaker, given to a patient after changing her device.
Congenital Complete Heart Block
This problem can occur even before birth till they became teenagers to young adult. For the parents of these kids who develop this problem, there are no warning signs till they become symptomatic. Most complains are dizziness and collapse, where diagnostics will only show the abnormal heart rhythm.
My said patient was the only one in her family who have had the problem. Though a friend of mine have had the same problem, her symptoms started in her 50's. She have had cousins and an uncle who had the same problem in her mother side, all ended having pacemakers.
Congenital complete heart block is due to maternal disease or due to a congenital heart defect in the fetus that can manifest before or after birth. Research shows that isolated cases have occurred even with no structural defects, some from auto-immune antibodies in the mother that cross the placenta.
With these in mind, some cases have had no aetiology in their occurrence.
Prognosis
In our Heart Attack Centre, the Arrhythmia services is open 24 hours a day, where we receive patients from 16 years of age and above. I don't recall having younger patients than 16 as paediatrics go elsewhere. For these age, morbidity is lower compared to those patients that have not received any pacemakers.
Research shows that patients' morbidity with this problem depends upon the age on when the symptoms manifest themselves, where the most vulnerable have the highest number of deaths.
Insertion of pacemaker is recommended as the prognosis is much better due to less complications from their disease.
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/894703-overview
What is the common complication after pacemaker surgery mam?
The most common is infection...but the most common to watch for is pneumothorax, but this depends on where the pacemaker leads were inserted☺☺
11 years old that is so young to have a pacemaker. Would it have to be upgraded as she gets older? #steemsugars
Our adult patients have 10 years then it get changed. Younger patients probably have it longer as this patient was already 24 yrs old.
Younger patients have had pacemaker, depending on what age their symptoms occur..even newborns. The younger they are, the higher is the mortality rate.
counted ba yung heartbreaks ? kasi walang forever? LOL
miss you lola
Heartbreaks have caused broken heart syndromes...lam mo yan? Totoo yan.
Mostly for women..but research shows it have happened to guys too.
But it doesn't last forever...the heart gets better and recuperate.
Have a read on that.
I'm writing it on paper =)
Kahet sa bato lolsss
*** i can't believe that at the young age, has already pacemaker***
Anyway, let's be grateful that we have still life.
Your friend
@sorenkierkegaard
Even younger kuya.
thanks for the info! keep up the good work!
You're welcome.
good informations..I wish everyone health.primarily all children!!!
We wish them good health yeah☺