A patient presents to urgent care complaining of dyspnea, fatigue, and lower extremity edema. The echocardiogram reveals and ejection fraction of 38%. The nurse practitioner knows that these findings are consistent with:A. Mitral regurgitationB. Systolic heart failureC. Cardiac myxomaD. Diastolic heart failure

The damage may be in the form of weakening of heart muscles, heart stiffness, or dilation of ventricles. Any of this damage directly affects the pumping of blood by the heart.

This decreases the ejection fraction of the heart to less than 50% indicating that blood is not pumped with the normal force.

Systolic heart failure arises due to failure of vigorous contraction by the left ventricle which impairs the pumping of blood.

The common symptoms of systolic heart failure include dyspnea, fatigue, edema of ankles and legs, irregular heartbeat, fluid retention etc

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A patient presents to urgent care complaining of dyspnea, fatigue, and lower extremity edema. The echocardiogram reveals, and ejection fraction of 38%. The nurse practitioner knows that these findings are consistent with - B. Systolic heart failure

Systolic heart failure

happens when the left ventricle of your heart can't contract completely. That means your heart won't pump forcefully enough to move your blood throughout your body in an efficient way.

A normal ejection fraction is more than 55%.
This means that 55% of the total blood in the left ventricle is pumped out with each heartbeat.
Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction happens when the muscle of the left ventricle is not pumping as well as normal.
The ejection fraction is 40% or less with dyspnea, fatigue, and lower extremity edema are consistent with Systolic heart failure

Thus, A patient presents to urgent care complaining of dyspnea, fatigue, and lower extremity edema. The echocardiogram reveals, and ejection fraction of 38%. The nurse practitioner knows that these findings are consistent with - B. Systolic heart failure

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