Rheumatic heart is also known as rheumatic valvular heart disease. The mitral stenosis of heart is more than 90% among the causes. The vegetation on the thicken and tumid valve surface is easy to form thrombus. It also can produce mural thrombus in the thicken, deformed and rough valves. After the thrombus break off, it flows with blood into the brain, so leads to cerebral embolism incidence.

The majority incidence symptoms of rheumatic fever are not typical. Thus, many patients often misunderstand fever and fatigue symptoms during the incidence as ordinary flu-like fever.  The most typical symptoms of Rheumatic heart disease are fatigue-type shortness of breath and palpitation. When the patient is climbing stairs, mountaineering and other slightly tired activities,they already are accompanied with symptoms like difficulty in breathing, palpitation, cough and so on, while the peers still have no obvious tired feeling. In addition, there are a small number of patients have cough and bloody sputum symptoms.

It should be noted that, before suffering from rheumatic heart disease, one third of patients must have had the history of suffering from rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever can be presented as rheumatic laryngitis, rheumatoid arthritis as well as rheumatic myocarditis,etc..Its pathogenicity   microorganism is A-hemolytic streptococcus. When there is acute attack, it is is usually more obvious to occur arthritis. After the acute attack, there is often different degrees of heart damage left, particularly significant harmness if valvular pathological changes, which forms chronic rheumatic heart disease.

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