Our trained cardiologists in the Heart Failure Clinic at MP Heart Clinic are specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure care for patients with heart failure. Cardiologists in the Heart Failure Clinic have significant experience and expertise in diagnosing and treating heart failure conditions. Our expertise in treating heart failure emergencies provides an opportunity for improving quality of life of the patients who have found limited options elsewhere. 
Our qualified treatment team includes:
- Electrophysiologists
- Sleep disorder specialists
- Exercise physiologists
- Cardiac surgeons
- Palliative care specialists
Other staff in your care includes compassionate and caring nurses,
dedicated dietitians, committed social workers, trained physical therapists
and other medical professionals specialize in diagnosing and treating heart failure.
MP Heart Clinic offers different tests including:
When it comes to treatment, it may include lifestyle changes, medications, and surgery. We offer a number of procedures for treating heart failure conditions. Some of our procedures include:
- Implantation of pacemakers, including biventricular pacemakers
- Implantation of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
- Implantation of ventricular assist devices
- Heart transplant for the ones who have advanced heart failure
Our team at the Heart Failure Clinic provides outpatient care and an inpatient program if you require hospitalization. In the Clinic, your care is directed and monitored by heart failure specialists. Our world class cardiologists work with your local doctors and lab testing facilities in order to optimize follow up care.
Heart failure doesn’t mean that the heart has stopped working, but it means that the heart’s pumping power is weaker than normal. In a heart failure, the human heart can’t pump enough blood through the body. Some specific conditions, such as coronary artery disease (narrowing the arteries in your heart) or high blood pressure, gradually leave the heart too weak or stiff to fill and pump efficiently.
In the majority of the cases, heart failure affects the left side of the heart. With heart failure, the blood moves through the heart at a slower pace, and pressure in the heart increases. As a result of which the heart cannot pump enough nutrients and oxygen to meet the body’s requirements. The chambers of the heart may respond by becoming stiff and thickened or by stretching to hold more blood to pump through the body. This makes to keep the blood moving, but the heart muscle wall eventually weakens and becomes unable to pump as efficiently.
Consequently, our kidneys may respond by causing the body to retain water (fluid) and salt. If fluid builds up in the legs, arms, feet, ankles, lungs or other organs, the body turns congested, and congested heart failure is the very term that is used to describe the condition.
Causes
Heart failure is caused often by the conditions that damage the heart muscle, including:
Coronary Artery Diseases (CAD) - It’s a disease of the arteries responsible for supplying blood and oxygen to the heart. If the arteries become severely narrowed or blocked, the heart becomes starved for oxygen and nutrient.
Heart Attack- It commonly occurs when a coronary artery becomes suddenly blocked. It results into the stopping of the flow of blood to the heart muscle. A heart attack often damages the heart muscle and doesn’t let the heart work properly.
Cardiomyopathy- Damage to the heart muscle commonly from infections, alcohol, or drug abuse.
Conditions including valve disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, thyroid disease, diabetes, or the heart defects present at birth may all cause health failure. Moreover, it can occur when different diseases or conditions are present at once.
Tests for the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure
In order to diagnose a heart failure, the doctor will take a careful medical history, review the symptoms and perform a physical examination. The doctor may ask for some of these tests:
Treadmill Test (TMT) is also called as Cardiac Stress Test which is used in cardiology to test
the ability of the heart to react to outside sources of stress in a controlled medical
atmosphere. The reaction to stress is produced either by exercise or drug stimulation which
compares the circulation of blood in the heart when the patient is either resting or he is
under optimum physical pressure.
Is TMT procedure a substitute for ECG ?
For example in a case like Angina, if the patient is not having any pain in the chest, the
angina symptoms would only come when they increase the heart rate, while doing some
physical exertion like walking. This is a condition where we need a TMT test and ECG would
not be successful as ECGs are taken at rest when the heart is beating at its lowest rate and
patients with a 90% blocks can even have a normal ECG in such a condition.
How is TMT test done?
The TMT test generally takes up to 90 minutes from beginning to end. The major stress test is
only of 20 minutes. The patient’s initial blood pressure is recorded at rest. Next, the
electrodes are placed on the patient’s chest and are connected to the wires that are linked to
the ECG machine.
There is a lead which is placed on different areas of the heart and around 12 lead ECG reports
are recorded on the paper. There are three leads that are connected to the Treadmill monitor
too.
Benefits of TMT or Stress test
Stress tests are quite safe and will help the doctor in diagnosing a heart problem and
determine what and how much of activity is safe for a patient.
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Purpose of the test
The device is the size of a small camera and it has wires with silver dollar-sized electrodes which are attached to your skin. The Holter monitor records your ECG as you keep doing your day to day activities and hence is also termed as ambulatory electrocardiograms.
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