Patient's question:
I've been feeling chest tightness these past few days, sometimes with sharp pain in my chest, and at times I even felt like I couldn't breathe. Later, while resting, I went to the hospital for a thorough check-up. The doctor said it was asymptomatic heart failure. Hearing this term, I was quite puzzled. What is asymptomatic heart failure?Doctor's answer:
If a patient has this symptom. Silent heart failure means having, after many careful examinations, an increase in the heart's ejection capacity without any symptoms. If this is the case, symptoms will reappear in no time. Therefore, even if the patient has the symptom of silent heart failure, active treatment is still necessary to prevent the condition from worsening.