Heart Failure and Organ Donation

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Heart Failure
In a heart that is suffering from heart failure the heart muscle cannot pump blood around the body as well as it should, because the heart’s pumping power is weak. The heart cannot cope with the full amount of blood it is meant to pump in a heartbeat, and therefore blood moves through the body and heart at a slower rate. As result to the ineffectiveness of the hearts pumping kidneys may cause the body to retain water and sodium. When this fluid builds up in the other organs, legs, arms, ankles, feet the body becomes congested hence the name: congestive heart failure. It can also be genetic and then it’s named congenital heart failure.
The main types are:

(Table #1 above)

Heart failure is caused by many diseases and problems, the most common causes are:
Coronary artery disease (CAD), which causes the small blood vessels that supply oxygen and blood to the heart to narrow.
Heart attack, occurs when a coronary artery suddenly becomes blocked, stopping the flow of blood and oxygen to the heart and damaging it and the heart muscle.
Conditions that overwork the heart. These conditions include; Diabetes (may be caused by obesity), high blood pressure, thyroid disease and kidney disease.
Cardiomyopathy, which is a disease that causes much damage to the heart muscle. This is caused by infections, artery or blood flow problems and over usage of drugs or alcohol.
Heart failure is a common, costly, disabling, and potentially deadly condition.
Heart failure is caused by many natural causes in your lifestyle, science cannot solve your lifestyle that is all your choice, science cannot change your mental stability either you have to fight and work hard. Just stay healthy. A simplified table is listed below
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...plantation is moderately rare in japan because Shinto traditions say that a dead body is impure and that defiling a corpse will bring bad luck to whomever did it. Thus they oppose taking organs from corpse.
The religions that encourage or allow transplants are:
Christianity: Jesus taught people to love each other and to embrace the needs of others, therefore organ donation is seen as a genuine act of love.
Hindu: They believe in the ongoing process of rebirth and life after death. The Bhagavad Gita explains how the mortal body and a immortal soul act as like clothes and a body:
"vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya navani grhnati naro 'parani atha sarirani vihaya jirnany anyani samyati navandi dehi."
"As a person puts on new garments giving up the old ones the soul similarly accepts new material bodies giving up the old and useless ones."
(Vyasa, Chapter 2 Verse 22)

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