Patient's question:
Usually, there's been talk about heart disease, and I know it's a quite dangerous illness. But yesterday, my mother asked me to visit my aunt, saying she was hospitalized for rheumatic heart disease. I don't know that besides rheumatic heart disease, what symptoms does rheumatic heart disease show?Doctor's answer:
Common clinical manifestations of heart disease include exertional dyspnea, shortness of breath, chest pain, hemoptysis, cough, fatigue, palpitations, dizziness, syncope, and lower limb edema. Cardiac percussion may reveal typical abnormal heart sounds and heart murmurs. A careful X-ray examination reveals signs of pulmonary congestion and cardiac enlargement, while echocardiography demonstrates abnormalities in the structure and function of various types of heart valves. An electrocardiogram shows signs of cardiac enlargement and different types of arrhythmias.