What are the symptoms of coronary heart disease? How to treat coronary heart disease? Can coronary heart disease be cured? Coronary heart disease is a common disease and frequently occurring disease in the elderly. Many people want to consult about the above questions. Let's introduce the symptoms and treatment of coronary heart disease.
(1) When tired or nervous, there is stuffy pain in the sternal or precordial area, or contraction like pain, and radiation to the left shoulder and left upper arm, lasting for 3-5 minutes, and self relieving after rest.
(2) Chest tightness, palpitation, shortness of breath during physical activity, and self relief during rest.
(3) There are headache, toothache, leg pain and so on related to exercise.
(4) Those who have chest pain or palpitations when they are full of food, cold or watching adventure movies.
(5) Those who feel chest tightness and suffocation when sleeping with a low pillow at night and need a high pillow position to feel comfortable; those who feel chest pain, palpitation and dyspnea when sleeping soundly or lying flat during the day and need to sit up or stand up immediately to relieve them.
(6) Flustered, chest tightness, shortness of breath or chest pain during sexual life or forced defecation.
(7) Hearing the noise will cause panic, chest tightness.
(8) Repeated pulse irregularity, unexplained tachycardia or bradycardia.
In order to detect coronary heart disease as early as possible, people over 40 years old should do the following tests regularly
If the test results are abnormal or there are other risk factors for coronary heart disease, blood cholesterol test should be done once every five years or more.
Check your blood pressure once a year.
Once a year for blood glucose test.
If it belongs to the high-risk group of coronary heart disease, it is necessary to ask the doctor to check whether it is necessary to accept ECG examination. If further examination is needed, the doctor will arrange an exercise test to measure the ECG when stepping on the stationary bicycle or treadmill.
The methods of treating coronary heart disease are as follows
1. Medical interventional stent therapy: This is a small incision in the lower extremities (groin, femoral artery), through the guide wire and other equipment, to expand the part of coronary artery stenosis, and put the stent treatment method. It is more suitable for the lesions with small number of vessels, and long-term drug treatment and follow-up are needed after operation.
2. Surgical coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG): This is a method of using the patient's own blood vessels to cross the narrow part of the coronary artery, so that the ischemic myocardium can get blood supply again. Although this method has trauma and large scar, it is the most effective treatment for multi vessel coronary artery disease and left main coronary artery disease. Long term medication and follow-up are also needed. In addition, there are still non-invasive surgical treatment, but in our country to carry out relatively less, lack of experience, and have certain indications.
3. Drug therapy: drug therapy is the basis of all treatments, and it is also necessary.
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