Fluid around the heart?...?

real answers only please, no joking around, thanks...

i just found out that my great grandmother, 82, is in the hospital with fluid around her heart, and before that, they said that she had a touch on pneumonia.

i have no idea what fluid around the heart means, and how you get it...
does someone know, or can someone tell me what this may possibly lead to, and what exactly has to be dont to gbet rid of it...

this would be a great help, thank you all very much..

The following is from Web MD. There is a lot more information there. From Web MD:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/...

Cardiac tamponade is the compression of the heart caused by blood or fluid accumulation in the space between the myocardium (the muscle of the heart) and the pericardium (the outer covering sac of the heart).

Causes, incidence, and risk factors Return to top In this condition, blood or fluid collects within the pericardium. This prevents the ventricles from expanding fully, so they cannot adequately fill or pump blood.

Cardiac tamponade is often associated with pericarditis caused by bacterial or viral infections. Heart surgery, dissecting aortic aneurysm (thoracic), wounds to the heart, end-stage lung cancer, and acute MI can all lead to cardiac tamponade.

Other potential causes include heart tumors, kidney failure, recent heart attack, recent open heart surgery, recent invasive heart procedures, radiation therapy to the chest, hypothyroidism and systemic lupus erythematosus.

Cardiac tamponade occurs in approximately 2 out of 10,000 people.

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Good luck.

You're right, it's no joke. What they are saying is she has gone into heart failure. They can tell either with an x-ray or by listening to the heart. On an x-ray it looks like a cloud. I know, because I have a condition that causes heart failure. The first time I saw an x-ray when I went to the ER for it, it looked very cloudy to me. To get rid of it they would normally give a person diuretics. Her heart failure is caused by the pneumonia and probably other underlying heart problems, and possibly her age. Not a good combination.

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