What is rheumatic heart disease and what are the treatments?

This is a disease of cardiopulmonary function, and the current method of this disease is still relatively conservative, and it is recommended to keep a calm mind and take medicine to relieve it.

Rheumatic heart disease is caused by an attack of rheumatism and can be treated with antibiotics**. Rheumatic heart disease is mainly a disease caused by streptococcal infections. Therefore, antibiotics should be selected for symptomatic treatment**.

It is a cardiac lesion caused by rheumatic fever activity, involving heart valves, with no obvious symptoms in the early stage, and heart failure caused by palpitation and weakness in the later stage, with conservative medication** or valve surgery**.

Rheumatic heart disease is a type of structural heart disease. Valve replacement surgery can be done, but it needs to be timed.

Hello, different patients have different conditions, for a clear diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease, drugs, one is to ****, if there is rheumatic activity, anti-rheumatism is required; The second is the assistance of concomitant symptoms**, such as taking cardiac and diuretic drugs to improve cardiac function when cardiac insufficiency, and taking some drugs that slow down the heart rate and anticoagulation** to prevent cerebral embolism when combined with atrial fibrillation. Because valvular heart disease is irreversible, it only progressively worsens when it occurs. Therefore, surgery** is the single most effective means.

Patients with rheumatic heart disease, if the symptoms are not obvious, can take general**, mainly to avoid excessive heart overload, do not do strenuous activities, reduce mood swings, limit sodium intake, and use digitalis preparations and vasodilators**. If the patient's symptoms are severe, surgery is required**.

In the case of rheumatic heart disease, it is necessary to pay attention to the prevention of rheumatic fever** and generally treat it with long-acting penicillin. Some asymptomatic valvular lesions do not require any special treatment, but it is important to avoid emotional agitation and excessive exercise. If you have edema or difficulty breathing, you must pay attention to the use of diuretics and limit the intake of water and sodium.

Patients must take care to reduce respiratory infections. If the symptoms are severe, surgery may be considered**.

The ** principle of rheumatic heart disease is to maintain and.

Enhance the compensatory function of the heart, in combination with heart failure.

Digitalis preparations, diuretics, and vasodilation are required.

Tension agent. Chronic rheumatic heart disease without clinical symptoms.

Patients generally do not require surgery** and are symptomatic and consistent.

Patients with surgical indications may choose to undergo mitral valve closure dilation.

Zhang or prosthetic valve replacement.

Asymptomatic patients with chronic rheumatic valvular heart disease generally do not require surgery; Symptomatic patients who meet the indications for surgery may be treated with mitral valve closure dilation or prosthetic valve replacement.

Indications for surgery: Patients with no obvious symptoms of cardiac function do not require surgery**.

Patients with cardiac function and grade should undergo surgery**.

Patients with cardiac function should first strengthen the heart and diuresis, and then perform surgery after cardiac function improves.

Patients with atrial fibrillation, pulmonary hypertension, systemic embolism, and functional tricuspid regurgitation should also be operated on, but the risk of surgery increases.

Patients with rheumatic activity or bacterial endocarditis should be treated 6 months after rheumatic activity and endocarditis are fully controlled.

The clinical symptoms of rheumatic heart disease are mainly heart failure and arrhythmia, which can cause dyspnea, cough, hemoptysis, chest pain, paroxysmal dyspnea at night, edema, etc.

If it is in the active period of rheumatism, it is necessary to actively carry out anti-rheumatism**, if the attack of acute heart failure, sedation, cardiac diuresis, vasodilation, etc. can be applied**, for patients with atrial fibrillation, the ventricular rate of atrial fibrillation should be controlled and anticoagulant preparations should be taken for a long time, and intervention** can also be used for percutaneous mitral valve balloon dilation and surgery for valve replacement surgery**.

Patients with indications for surgery are advised to undergo surgery as soon as possible** to avoid irreversible damage caused by heart failure aggravated by heart enlargement.

Rheumatic heart disease refers to the disease of the heart valves left over from the process of inflammation, damage, and healing of rheumatic carditis. However, due to the predisposition of rheumatic activity**, active carditis can continue to exist and develop after chronic valvular heart disease develops. The mitral valve is the main valve involved in rheumatic heart disease, followed by the aortic valve.

Mitral stenosis: dyspnea is the main symptom, severe cough, pink frothy sputum, orthopnea, etc. The patient presents with a mitral valve face (purplish cheeks and cyanosis of the lips), hyperactivity of the first heart sound on auscultation, and a diastolic rumbling murmur and mitral valve snapping sound can be heard at the apex.

Pulmonary valve second tone hyperactivity.

Mitral regurgitation: palpitations, fatigue, dyspnea, worsening with activity. Cardiac auscultation: a loud holosystolic blowing murmur may be heard at the apex, and the murmur conducts to the left axillary in the left decubitus position. Pulmonary artery second tone hyperactivity.

Rheumatic heart disease, caused by group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus bacteria following pharyngeal infection, is actually a late manifestation of rheumatic fever, mainly arthritis and carditis. Symptoms of carditis may or may not be insidious. Early manifestations of rheumatic heart disease are arthritis, carditis, erythema annulae, subcutaneous nodules, and chorea, which can occur together.

In the later stages of rheumatoid arthritis, 60%-80% of people can affect the heart, and symptoms such as palpitations, shortness of breath, and chest tightness may occur.

What are the effective ways to prevent rheumatic heart disease? Now let's take a closer look:

1. Prevention and treatment of streptococcal infection.

2. Combine work and rest. Proper exercise and physical exertion increase the heart's ability to compensate.

3. Stabilize your mind. Many patients with rheumatic heart disease are nervous and emotional, and when they are emotional, they will suddenly have tachycardia.

Add the burden on the heart and cause cardiac insufficiency, so we should be relieved and calm.

4. Eat reasonably.

a.Rheumatic heart disease is prone to edema, so it is important to limit salt intake to prevent edema from worsening and to prevent cardiac negativeness.

Dan increases. b.Reduce high-fat diets: Fatty diets are not easy to digest after ingestion, which will increase the burden on the heart, and some will also cause heart rhythms.

Disorders. c.In the same way as salt restriction, patients with rheumatic heart disease should eat less sodium-rich foods to avoid edema.

Sooner**, get your heart healthy.

My mother is this disease, I can tell you with my experience: this disease can't be honest, the valves are broken, how can it be born good, but through the appropriate time of surgery, if the operation is successful, it can significantly reduce the symptoms, improve the quality of life, and prolong the life of the patient! In addition to taking medicine** has been dragging on so much, there is only one way to operate!

Please don't be discouraged or stressed, having heart disease is very troublesome, I hope to seize the opportunity, prepare money, and be positive**!