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| Topic | They're dropping one of my chemo drugs out of concern for my heart. |
| Rainbow_Dashing 05/28/18 12:25:37 PM #3: | It's most likely ejection fraction that they're referring to. How much blood you're pumping out of the ventricles in your heart. You can't realistically pump out ALL of the blood, it would literally mean your heart forms some weird ass shape that completely pushes out all of the blood from the ventricles. Usually 50 and above is fine and below fifty it's not good. https://www.123sonography.com/ebook/left-ventricular-function They even have a sample clip showing all the differing ventricle ejection fractions there. Someone who has below 30% you can hardly see the ventricles contracting. Of course this all relates to how much oxygen your body and brain gets. If you have a lower performing heart, you can have fainting spells, feeling weak, slower, sluggish etc, you can even have moments of seizures as your brain could lack oxygen, this is in the worst case where people's hearts just stop pumping for like 10 seconds after having inadequate oxygen for about 15 minutes. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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