Signs and symptoms of rheumatic heart disease

Rheumatic heart disease can involve the heart valves and cause heart valve lesions, and the specific symptoms and signs are directly related to the severity of the disease. 1. Symptoms: tiredness, fatigue, panic, shortness of breath, coughing, coughing up pink foamy sputum, dyspnea, dizziness, excessive sweating, post-sternal discomfort, joint swelling and pain, some patients have a sense of suffocation or crushing pain. 2. Physical signs: reddish ring-shaped erythema of the skin, swelling of the knee joints, flushing of the cheeks, bruising around the mouth; murmur on cardiac auscultation, and in some patients, fine wet rales can be heard. Rheumatic heart disease patients due to the severity of the disease is not the same, the symptoms and signs are not exactly the same, some patients will also appear fever, joint pain, severe cases can also appear dyspnea and even fainting and other symptoms, to go to the cardiovascular department in time.