Curbing rheumatism and reshaping heart valves – A brief discussion on heart valve replacement Rheumatic heart valve disease, referred to as rheumatic heart disease, is a chronic heart valve lesion caused by rheumatic fever. Many patients are always puzzled, how can a good heart and a good valve be broken? Rheumatic heart disease is a metaplastic systemic disease of hemolytic strain of Marie Claire infection in adolescence. After about 10 years, it causes a reaction of the heart valves, and after another 10 years or so, the heart valves will be destroyed and the corresponding symptoms will appear. That is why it usually strikes in adults, but, recently, the age of onset is getting younger and younger. In fact, wind heart disease itself is not terrible, many wind heart patients can live, study and work like normal people. Many people with CHD can live, study and work like normal people. The majority of patients with CHD can live a normal life span if they pay attention to daily health care and are treated actively. The risk factor of wind heart disease is actually its complications. According to director Zhang Wei, there are many patients with wind heart disease who are now living exactly the same as normal people after valve replacement treatment in the 1980s. With the development of cardiac surgery, there are now effective treatments for CHD: heart valvuloplasty and heart valve replacement. In simple terms, this means renovating the heart and making the diseased heart look brand new. Valvuloplasty is the repair of a diseased valve to normal working condition under direct visualization in an extracorporeal circuit. In some patients, the valve lesion is aggravated again after surgery, and the condition deteriorates again, then valve replacement surgery is required again. Heart valve replacement involves removing the patient’s own diseased valve and replacing it with an artificial valve, thereby eliminating the lesion and curing the patient. With proper timing, the success rate can be as high as 99%. After valve replacement, the vast majority of patients have good recovery of heart function and can participate in normal work and study with high quality of life, while a few patients have unsatisfactory recovery of heart function and need a period of medication to improve heart function. After valve replacement, some patients may have a recurrence of rheumatic heart disease due to poor control of rheumatism, which affects another valve, and therefore need regular follow-up or continued paralysis treatment after surgery.