Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Heart murmur is heart disease; cardiopathy; heart trouble; a heart disorder ??

In outpatient treatment, the patients often hear complaints about the question: "Doctor, I have no heart murmur?" If the answer is yes, then the patient will feel very tense, with a total heart feel sick. So, how exactly is heart murmur at all?

Heart murmur in general can be divided into two types: one is a physiological or functional noise, also known as the sound of noise, multi-appear in the heart contraction time; The other is pathological or organic noise may appear in systolic or diastolic heart of the time. Noise according to their loudness can be divided into six or four, the most mild one.

Physiological noise is characterized by light and soft voices, the general performance for the two following systolic murmur. Its appearance does not necessarily mean that the heart is sick, but to enhance myocardial contractility, blood flow to speed up results. Generally speaking there is nothing I feel no need treatment, do not mind. Occur in normal young people, can also be seen in fever, anemia, emotional, and after exercise in patients with hyperthyroidism.

Pathological characteristics of noise is loud and rough voice, mostly in more than two. Click on the palm of your hand can also be felt in the chest wall like a cat to catch my breath when the chest wall that tremor, this feeling in medicine known as "cat breath" or "tremor." Its appearance is the heart of a reliable diagnosis based on organic diseases. According to their cause and symptoms, proper treatment. This type of noise more common in rheumatic heart disease, such as mitral insufficiency, in the apical area may be the same as the voice of hair; such as mitral stenosis, in the apical area will be like, like thunder or drum-like voice. Rational murmur of many sick people, in the exertion or activities can have chest tightness, dyspnea, palpitation, such as feeling, should be given to drug treatment, if necessary, surgery.

Therefore, when you know you have a heart murmur, first of all, doctors should be asked to clear this noise is physiological or pathological is systolic or relieve period. If living rational systolic murmur, while the heart is not necessarily sick, do not have tension, but also do not need treatment.

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