Rheumatic heart, also known as rheumatic heart disease, heart disease causes mitral stenosis accounts for more than 90%. Valvular thickening swelling of the vegetation on the surface of small blood clots, in the thickening, deformation, rough valves, also can produce mural thrombus, the thrombus breaking off the tank with the blood flow into the brain of cerebral embolism occurs.
Sounds like a heart, but this is different from other types of rheumatic heart disease, it is always quietly disease. Onset of symptoms is not typical of the majority of rheumatic fever, many patients often when the incidence of fever, fatigue mistaken for ordinary flu-like fever. And rheumatic heart disease the most typical symptoms are fatigue-type shortness of breath, palpitation, a patient’s stair climbing, mountaineering and other activities of a slightly tired, tired peers were still no clear sense of himself has difficulty in breathing, palpitation cough and other symptoms. In addition, there are a small number of patients still coughing, bloody sputum symptoms. However, to remind that there are 30% of the patients with no typical symptoms. Statistics show that nearly 70% of patients suffering from disease when they do not know their own rheumatic heart disease, to the heart of the damage has been very serious, such as occurs after myocardial infarction, or stroke, did not realize the condition.
Patients should be noted that in prior to suffering from rheumatic heart disease, 30% of patients had positive history of rheumatic fever. Because of wet weather in southern China have always been a high incidence of rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever can be expressed as rheumatic laryngitis, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic myocarditis, with its causative organism is A-hemolytic streptococcus. Acute attack of arthritis is usually more obvious, often left behind after the acute attack severity, ranging from heart damage, particularly to the most significant valvular disease, the formation of chronic rheumatic heart disease.

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