‘I Could Have Died!’ A Greensboro Woman Warns About Heart Disease and High Cholesterol
‘I Could Have Died!’ A Greensboro Woman Warns About Heart Disease and High Cholesterol
GREENSBORO, high cholesterol, and excessive are all risk factors both men and women. this week's Cone Health Your Well-being segment," said Belinda Blake. "I have died!" High cholesterol almost Blake out. ‘I Could Have "I had aortic valve replacement and disease. I had blood clots my and a blood clot my lungs, Support and Pulmonary Fibrosis Having open-heart when Blake was 53-years-old, we had the.
Una Fahey was a busy mother of five sports-mad sons when she started to suffer what she believed were symptoms of flu. Una Fahey was a busy mother of five sports-mad sons when she started to suffer what she believed were symptoms of flu. Rare heart disease: Mum of five believed she had flu Ms Fahey (58), from Gort in Galway, took to her bed for two days, hoping the illness would pass and she would recover her strength. But when she saw her GP her condition caused concern and she was rushed heart valve problems and shortness of breath to hospital by ambulance. She discovered she had endocarditis, a rare and potentially fatal infection of the inner lining of the heart, and she ended up in theatre two days later where she had valves replaced. "I had no idea I had the condition. "I had a swollen hand and a leg cramp, which I never got previously, but I was unaware they were serious symptoms," she said. She was recalling her traumatic experience to highlight European Heart Valve Disease Awareness Week and alert others who have similar symptoms to seek medical help.
ADVICE: Our heart arguably most important organ we Its role pump blood around litres of blood a our tissues quickly start die. To maintain this job, on side on left. The top upper are bottom are ventricles. Rare heart disease: The left atria receive blood into heart and this then pumped into ventricles pushed out lungs (from side How to tell of heart).
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