Answers for heart patients
Plain answers to the questions heart patients ask after a heart attack, a stent or bypass surgery. Each page is written by Dr. Muralidar Babi, Cardiac Rehab Physician. The facts come from heart bodies like the NHS, AHA, ESC and BHF, and each page names them. Each page ends with what happens at Cardiac Rehab, and a few common questions. Pick a topic below. తెలుగులో చదవండి
After a stent or heart attack
- How many days of rest after a stent?
- Walking after angioplasty: how to start
- Food after angioplasty: what to eat
- Climbing stairs after a heart attack, stent or bypass
After bypass surgery
Heart failure
- Heart failure: what the words really mean
- My heart pumping (EF) is low. Can it get better?
- Swollen legs and heart failure: why it happens and what helps
- Heart failure treatment: where cardiac rehab fits in
Exercise and cardiac rehab
- What happens in a cardiac rehab programme?
- Can a heart patient go to the gym?
- Life with a pacemaker: can I exercise?
- Life with an ICD: can I exercise, and what if it shocks me?
Medicines
Chest pain and feelings
- Is it gas or my heart?
- Chest feelings after a stent: why, and when to worry
- Not the same person after a heart attack