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medics - water on the heart?

badkitti*
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  • medics - water on the heart?

    Right - is there such a phenomenon, and what is it due to?

    Flamin' kids and their random questions!

     

    Google is not my friend tonight

     

    PS can bile in the stomach lead to death - Can find anything reliable that says yes.

    "For a moment we lost our minds here, and dreamt the world was round..."
  • Re: medics - water on the heart?

    By "water on the heart", do you mean pericardial effusion?  It's where the bag that srrounds the heart (the pericardium), fills with fluid rather like a blister.  It can cause very severe problems, but can also easily be drained & dealt with.

     

    As for bile ... no idea!

  • Re: medics - water on the heart?

    No idea about water on the heart but I do know that bile is produced in the bile duct which connects the liver and if these ducts become clogged up with bile then it can cause liver failure.

    At least I thought that was how it works.

    But they can put medical balloons of sorts in the ducts to keep them open.

  • Re: medics - water on the heart?

    • Zoay
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    'Water on the heart' is probably a pericardial effusion, as eveina has said.

    And bile in the stomach is ok - most of us will have had the charming experience of vomiting it up at some point during a bug.The only reason I can think of that it would kill you is if it were there because of obstruction of the bowel that wasn't treated.

  • Re: medics - water on the heart?

    Thanks all! I can always rely on the knowledge of hitched

    "For a moment we lost our minds here, and dreamt the world was round..."
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