Enlarged heart is due to a variety of reasons caused by the expansion of the size of the heart or the phenomenon of heart wall hypertrophy, mild and moderate heart enlargement is not very serious, severe heart enlargement is more serious.
Most patients with enlarged heart is caused by viral myocarditis, hypertension, anemia, malnutrition, etc., myocardial compensatory hypertrophy and hyperplasia, myocardial cell ischemia, hypoxia, necrosis less, the degree of cardiac enlargement is relatively mild, and there is no obvious clinical symptoms.
The degree of heart enlargement can be delayed by actively treating the primary disease, and generally does not affect the patient’s life expectancy, so the condition is not serious.
A small number of patients with heart enlargement is due to coronary artery disease, dilated cardiomyopathy, chronic pulmonary heart disease, chronic myocarditis and other diseases caused by ischemia, hypoxia and fibrosis of cardiomyocytes, cardiac chambers thinning and enlarged, the patient will also have dyspnea, chest tightness, angina and other manifestations. Treatment should be carried out as early as possible, and at this time the enlargement of the heart is irreversible.
At this time, it will lead to the shortening of the patient’s life, so the condition is more serious.
The heart ultrasound can clearly show the size of the heart chambers, the thickness of the heart muscle, the size of the ejection fraction, etc., which can determine the morphological changes of the heart, so as to determine the degree of cardiac enlargement, and it can also be judged by the X-ray examination of the proportion of the chest circumference. Test results show symptoms of an enlarged heart, you need to go to the hospital in time for further examination and treatment according to the doctor’s instructions.