Cardiosclerosis

Cardiosclerosis is the defeat of the muscle (myocardiosclerosis) and heart valves due to the development of scar tissue in them in the form of sections of various sizes (from microscopic to large Cicatricial foci and fields) and prevalence replacing the myocardium or (and) deforming valves. It is the outcome of rheumatism and myocarditis of different nature (myocarditis cardiosclerosis) or atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries (coronary atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis). The clinical significance of cardiosclerosis of another origin (the outcome of myocardial dystrophy and hypertrophy, cardiac trauma, other diseases) is small.

Diagnosis. Manifestations of myocardiosclerosis are stable arrhythmias and violations of intracardiac conduction, chronic heart failure. Atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis can cause valvular defects almost exclusively in the form of mitral (papillary defect) or aortic valve insufficiency; Atherosclerotic-cardiac sclerosis may cause angina attacks, and chronic heart aneurysm may develop. The flow is more often slowly progressing due to the chronically recurrent (rheumatic) or progressive (atherosclerosis) nature of the underlying disease.

Treatment of the underlying disease; Pathogenetic therapy of individual syndromes; Arrhythmia, atrioventricular blockade, chronic heart failure (considering that in cardiosclerosis, myocardial tolerance to cardiac glycosides is usually reduced).