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  • Disease name: heart disease
  • Location: Heart
  • Department: Department of Cardiology
  • Symptoms and signs: Tinnitus, snoring, shoulder pain, chest pain, dyspnea at night, in the lying position, and in the sitting position. It is paroxysmal. Activities and going upstairs can also occur. Cardiac overload leads to obstruction of venous return, distal vascular congestion and edema, which is also a common symptom of heart patients.
Disease Overview
Heart disease is a kind of common circulatory system disease. The circulatory system is composed of the heart, blood vessels and neurohumoral tissues that regulate blood circulation. The circulatory system diseases are also called cardiovascular diseases, including all the above-mentioned diseases of tissues and organs. They are common diseases in internal medicine, among which heart diseases are the most common, which can significantly affect the labor force of patients. View Details
clinical manifestation
Palpitation, dyspnea, cyanosis, cough, hemoptysis, chest pain, edema, oliguria. Cardiac enlargement sign, abnormal heart sound, arrhythmia sign, abnormal pulse. View Details
disease control
For patients with clear etiology, active treatment of the etiology can achieve good results. Interventional or surgical treatment can correct pathological and anatomical changes. At present, most congenital heart diseases can be cured by surgery or interventional treatment. For cardiovascular diseases that cannot be or are difficult to be cured at present, the main task is to correct their pathological changes. View Details

The doctor said

Wu Qingyu
Dean of the First Affiliated Hospital of Tsinghua University, Director of Heart Center

Experts talk online about how to prevent and treat heart disease
According to the report of the World Health Organization, heart disease is the first type of death. There are several types of heart disease. One is congenital heart disease.
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