What is myocarditis

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Myocarditis is a common disease, sometimes some factors we usually do not pay attention to will cause myocarditis, and many patients will suffer from myocarditis, but their understanding of this disease is not very much. Now let's talk about what is myocarditis.

What is myocarditis

First: myocarditis refers to various causes of myocardial inflammatory lesions. A variety of factors such as infection, physical and chemical factors can cause myocarditis, the degree of myocardial damage caused by great difference, clinical manifestations are different, mild patients without any symptoms, and severe patients can have heart failure, cardiogenic shock and even sudden death.

Second: most patients can be cured after treatment, and some patients develop dilated cardiomyopathy after acute phase, which can lead to heart failure repeatedly. Myocarditis can occur in people of all ages, especially in young adults. For myocarditis caused by infective reasons, there are often manifestations of primary infection first, such as fever, sore throat, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle soreness, etc. in viral patients, most of them have symptoms of myocarditis after 1-3 weeks of viral infection.

Third: regardless of the cause of myocarditis, the clinical symptoms of myocarditis are related to the characteristics of myocardial damage, such as palpitation in patients with arrhythmia as the main manifestation, blackness and syncope in severe cases; various symptoms of heart failure in patients with heart failure as the main manifestation, such as dyspnea; related manifestations of shock in severe cases; if inflammation is involved Pericardium and pleura, can appear chest tightness, chest pain symptoms; some patients can also have similar angina pectoris performance.

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Thus, myocarditis is mainly an inflammatory disease, it has mild and moderate points. This indicates that different degrees of myocarditis will make patients have different symptoms, and the treatment is not the same. If myocarditis does not actively cooperate with treatment, it is likely to cause heart failure.