Symptoms of acute pericarditis?

summary

Acute pericarditis is a syndrome caused by acute inflammation of the visceral and parietal layers of the pericardium. The clinical features included chest pain, pericardial fricative sound and a series of abnormal ECG changes. There are many causes, which can come from pericardial disease itself, and can also be a part of systemic diseases. Clinically, tuberculous, non-specific and tumor are the most common. Systemic diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, uremia and other diseases are easy to involve pericardium and cause pericarditis. Here is a detailed introduction to the symptoms of acute pericarditis.

Symptoms of acute pericarditis?

Precordial pain is often aggravated in postural changes, deep breathing, coughing, swallowing, and lying positions, especially when the legs are raised or the left side is lying, and alleviated in sitting or leaning forward positions. The pain is usually confined to the infrasternal or precordial area, often radiating to the left shoulder, back, neck or upper abdomen, occasionally to the mandible, left forearm and hand. Some pericarditis pain is obvious, such as acute nonspecific pericarditis; Some are mild or completely painless, such as tuberculous and uremic pericarditis.

Symptoms of cardiac tamponade - dyspnea, pale complexion, restlessness, cyanosis, fatigue, epigastric pain, edema, and even shock. Systemic symptoms pericarditis itself can also cause chills, fever, palpitations, sweating, fatigue and other symptoms, which are often difficult to distinguish from the symptoms of primary diseases.

The symptoms of pericardial effusion oppressing the adjacent organs - the compression of the lung, trachea, bronchus and large blood vessels causes congestion of the lung, decrease of vital capacity, limitation of ventilation, aggravation of dyspnea, and shallow and rapid breathing. Patients often take the front reclining sitting position automatically to make the pericardial effusion move downward and forward, so as to reduce the compression symptoms. Pressure on the trachea can cause coughing and hoarseness. Esophageal compression can cause dysphagia.

matters needing attention

Hope that patients with acute pericarditis have a good understanding of their own symptoms of acute pericarditis, to avoid their own acute pericarditis when they do not know, in addition, once the symptoms of acute pericarditis are detected, patients must be treated in time.