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Need help interpreting a cause of death

  • 15-06-2016 11:57am
    #1
    54and56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    If it's not against forum rules can someone please tell me in layman's language what "Lethal cardiac arrhythmia due to ischaemic cardiomyopathy" means as a certified cause of death?

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Speedwell
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    The person had heart failure and the heart ultimately stopped working.


  • #3
    looksee
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    My understanding of this is: cardiac relates to the heart. Arrhythmia is an irregular heart beat. This can be quite mild and treatable, but in the case you are talking about the heart was diseased and the blood flow seriously affected, causing the arrhythmia to become serious and dangerous, to the point where the heart stopped.


  • #4
    54and56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭54and56


    looksee wrote: »
    My understanding of this is: cardiac relates to the heart. Arrhythmia is an irregular heart beat. This can be quite mild and treatable, but in the case you are talking about the heart was diseased and the blood flow seriously affected, causing the arrhythmia to become serious and dangerous, to the point where the heart stopped.


    Thanks Looksee, I appreciate that.


  • #5
    Pugzilla
    Site Banned Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭Pugzilla


    There's lots of different types of arrythmias. Not all of them are mild. Ventricular fibrillation will cause brain death within minutes if not treated.


  • #6
    RobFowl
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    To me Lethal cardiac arrhythmia would mean a disruption to the normal heart beat to the point where the heart was unable to continue pumping blood around the body.
    Ischaemic cardiomyopathy would mean damage to the muscles of the heart due to disrupted blood supply, usually would be a result of a heart attack or coronary artery disease.


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  • #7
    looksee
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    Pugzilla wrote: »
    There's lots of different types of arrythmias. Not all of them are mild. Ventricular fibrillation will cause brain death within minutes if not treated.

    I did not say they were all mild, I said they could be. That would include different types, but there is no point introducing a reason for panic into a discussion that is only peripherally about arrhythmia types.


  • #8
    Pugzilla
    Site Banned Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭Pugzilla


    looksee wrote: »
    I did not say they were all mild, I said they could be. That would include different types, but there is no point introducing a reason for panic into a discussion that is only peripherally about arrhythmia types.

    《Mod snip》


  • #9
    Dingle_berry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Dingle_berry


    Je_suis_Jean wrote: »
    Hi all,

    If it's not against forum rules can someone please tell me in layman's language what "Lethal cardiac arrhythmia due to ischaemic cardiomyopathy" means as a certified cause of death?

    Thanks.
    Like others have said, the heartbeat went abnormal because of heart disease. There are different 'stages' to a heartbeat that should be in a timed sequence. If the heart muscle doesn't get blood it doesn't get nutrients so it dies, then it can't beat as it should. If this happens the blood circulating around the body doesn't flow as it should and other organs may shut down.


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