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  • Heart Failure

    Heart Failure

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    Dr. Taoufik

    Warning: • Do not ignore the diagnosis before a little debilitating or wheezing dyspnea. • Diagnosis is echocardiographic and biological (determination of NT-proBNP) ++. • Treatment is symptomatic and etiological • ACE inhibitors and diuretics are the first line of treatment, at the stage NYHA II. • Beta-blockers to appropriate dose should be prescribed widely…

  • Chronic Respiratory Failure

    Chronic Respiratory Failure

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    Dr. Taoufik

    Chronic respiratory failure is defined by the inability of the lungs normally ensure oxygenation of the arterial blood. The result is an arterial hypoxia. The finding of a PaO 2 ≤ 60 mmHg sign a basic IRC. IRC A- A STEADY STATE: 1- COPD: – Basic hypoxemia (by shunting) – Hypercapnia (by alveolar hypoventilation present…

  • Valve disease

    Valve disease

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    Dr. Taoufik

    1- Auscultation: A- Mitral stenosis: Durozier rhythm that combines: * A burst of B1 * A mitral opening snap * Bearing with diastolic building presystolic * B- Mitral insufficiency: – Systolic regurgitation Breath * Holosystolic * Max in the tip (axillary irradiation) * In steam – Bearing early diastolic, B3 (major IM) – View disease…

  • Treatment of heart failure in adults

    Treatment of heart failure in adults

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    Dr. Taoufik

    With 120,000 new cases per year, heart failure (HF) has become a major public health problem, which is growing with the aging of the population. It is characterized by the presence of functional symptoms (shortness of breath, fatigue, etc.) related to a disorder of cardiac function objectified by ultrasound imaging, radiological or isotopic. The IC…

  • Heart failure in adults

    Heart failure in adults

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    Dr. Taoufik

    Heart failure is defined as the inability of the heart muscle to ensure normal haemodynamic function. The left heart failure (often secondary to coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease and / or hypertension) is the most common form. We distinguish: – Chronic heart failure with insidious onset, – Acute heart failure involving the immediate life-threatening,…

  • Chronic renal failure

    Chronic renal failure

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    Dr. Taoufik
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    Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined as a chronic decrease in glomerular filtration rate. In France, about 2 million people have CKD. Risk subjects were hypertensive, diabetic and aged 70 or more (where the frequency of CKD is higher among men than women; men of this age, the frequency of the IRC is 5-7 times…