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This document summarizes common circulatory system disorders including their symptoms, causes, and treatments. Atherosclerosis causes narrowing of the arteries and can be "silent" initially, later causing shortness of breath, dizziness, and vision problems due to plaque buildup and conditions like high blood pressure and smoking. Arrhythmias result in an irregular heartbeat from issues like coronary artery disease, electrolyte imbalances, or past heart attacks. Heart attacks are usually due to coronary heart disease and risk factors like high blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking, and diabetes. Strokes occur when blood flow to the brain is blocked by a clot or bleeding in the brain. Anemia causes fatigue and weakness due to blood loss

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Disorders of The Circulatory System Table-Answers

This document summarizes common circulatory system disorders including their symptoms, causes, and treatments. Atherosclerosis causes narrowing of the arteries and can be "silent" initially, later causing shortness of breath, dizziness, and vision problems due to plaque buildup and conditions like high blood pressure and smoking. Arrhythmias result in an irregular heartbeat from issues like coronary artery disease, electrolyte imbalances, or past heart attacks. Heart attacks are usually due to coronary heart disease and risk factors like high blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking, and diabetes. Strokes occur when blood flow to the brain is blocked by a clot or bleeding in the brain. Anemia causes fatigue and weakness due to blood loss

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Disorders of the Circulatory System


(Disorders of the Circulatory System)

Disorder:
Atherosclero
sis
(Narrowing of the
arteries)

Arrhythmia
(Irregular
Heartbeat)

Heart Attack

Stroke

Symptoms:

Causes:

Treatment:

-Silent Killer
-Shortness of breath
-Dizziness
-Headaches
-Vision problems

-High blood
pressure
-Smoking
-High cholesterol
-Plaque buildup

-Lifestyle changes
-Medication
-Angioplasty
-Bypass surgery

-Palpitations (a
feeling of skipped
heart beats, or
feeling that your
heart is running
away)
-Dizziness or feeling
light-headed
-Fainting
-Weakness or fatigue
-Discomfort,
pressure, heaviness,
or pain in the chest,
arm, or below the
breastbone
-Indigestion, or
choking feeling (may
feel like heartburn)
-Sweating, nausea,
vomiting, or dizziness
-Extreme weakness,
anxiety, or shortness
of breath
-Rapid or irregular
heartbeats
-Weakness or
numbness of the
face, arm, or leg on
one side of the body
-Loss of vision or
dimming (like a
curtain falling) in one
or both eyes
-Loss of speech,
difficulty talking, or
understanding what
others are saying
-Sudden, severe
headache with no
known cause
-Loss of balance or
unstable walking,

-Coronary artery
disease
-Electrolyte
imbalances in your
blood (Na or K)
-Injury from a heart
attack
-Healing process
after heart surgery

-In some cases, no


treatment may be
required
-Lifestyle changes
-Medication
-Surgical
procedures

-Coronary heart
disease (arteries
clogged with fatty,
calcified plaques)
-High blood
pressure
-High cholesterol
-Smoking
-Diabetes
-Sedentary lifestyle
-Stress
-Genetics

-Medication to
break up or
prevent blood
clots, prevent
platelets from
gathering and
sticking to the
plaque, or stabilize
the plaque
-Surgical
procedures (open
heart surgery &
angioplasty)

-Blockage in blood
flow to the brain
caused by a blood
clot
-Buildup of plaque
in the artery wall
-Bleeding into the
brain or around the
brain
-High blood
pressure

-Injections
-Blood pressurelowering
medications
-Cholesterollowering
medications
-Surgical
procedures (e.g.,
carotid
endarterectomy)
-Lifestyle changes

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Anemia
(Blood lacks
enough healthy
red blood cells or
hemoglobin)

Varicose
Veins

Heart Murur

usually combined
with another
symptom
-Extreme fatigue
-Pale skin
-Weakness
-Dizziness or
lightheadedness
-Headache
-Frequent infections

-Blood loss
-Decreased or
faulty red blood
cell production
-Destruction of red
blood cells

-Aching, cramping at
night, swelling, and a
feeling of fullness in
the legs (These
symptoms become
worse before
menstruation or after
standing for a long
time)
-Spider-web of raised
veins over most of
the leg or only one
vein

-The valves that


push blood through
the varicose veins
stop working
properly, causing
blood to collect in
areas in the veins
-Standing for long
periods of time
-Being overweight
-Age
-Gender
-Genetic

-No symptoms;
underlying structural
issue of the heart
-Difficulty breathing
-Swelling
-Chest pain,
palpitations

-When blood
rushes through the
heart quickly
during normal
function
-Underlying
medical condition
-Abnormalities in
the valves, septae,
arteries, or veins

-Blood transfusion,
oxygen infusion,
iron supplements
-Diet changes
(increasing the
amount of iron in
your diet)
-Iron injections or
given
intravenously
-Leg elevation
while sitting or
sleeping
-Compression
dressings with
single or
multilayered
systems
-Compression
stockings
-Sclerotherapy
(injection of a
liquid or foam into
the vein to form a
clot and
permanently
destroy the vessel)
-Ablation
(destruction) of
abnormal veins
with techniques
using laser,
radiofrequency or
other modalities
-Surgery (removal
of the varicose
veins, including
"phlebectomy" or
vein stripping).
-Many times just
monitored
-Infected
valvesantibiotics
-Damaged
valvessurgical
repair

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