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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.

Symptoms of heart disease

Myocardial ischemia:.

(2) Chest tightness, palpitations, shortness of breath during physical activity, and self relief during rest.

(3) There are throat pain, burning feeling, constriction feeling and toothache related to sports.

(4) Those who suffer from chest pain and tightness after having a full meal, cold and drinking.

(5) When sleeping at night, the pillow is low, the chest feels stuffy and suffocated, and the person needs to lie in a high pillow position to feel comfortable; Those who need to sit up or stand up immediately to relieve chest pain, palpitations and dyspnea when sleeping deeply or lying flat in the daytime.

Coronary heart disease: sudden precordial pain induced by physical activity and emotional excitement, mostly paroxysmal colic or squeezing pain, or suffocation. The pain starts from the back of the sternum or the precordial area, and radiates upward to the left shoulder, arm, and even the little finger and ring finger. Rest or taking nitroglycerin can relieve the pain. The parts where chest pain dissipates may also involve the neck, jaw, teeth, abdomen, etc.

Cor pulmonale: chronic cough, expectoration, shortness of breath, palpitation, dyspnea, fatigue and decreased labor endurance after activities. There may be obvious emphysema sign in physical examination. The breath sound is weakened by auscultation. Occasionally, there are dry and wet rales. The lower limbs are slightly edematous. It is obvious in the afternoon and disappears in the next morning. The heart dullness boundary is often difficult to knock out due to emphysema. Heart sounds are far away, but the pulmonary valve area may have a second heart sound hyperfunction, indicating pulmonary hypertension.

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

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