Notice! With these symptoms on your fingers, your heart is calling for help...

Many people have heart disease without knowing it,

Waiting for the disease to worsen

delays the best treatment period.

< section> Director of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University

Professor Zheng Junmeng reminded,

In fact, some symptoms on the fingers

are a warning of heart disease ,

If you find that your fingers are different from normal people,

At this time, you need to be vigilant!

Medical guidance: Professor Zheng Junmeng, Director of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University

Trembling fingers, bulging ends,

May be a “warning” from the heart

Zheng Junmeng According to the professor, when heart disease occurs, the fingers will have some unusual symptoms, including: finger tremors, abnormal nails and clubbing.

finger tremors

The heart is the lifeblood of the human body. If the heart does not beat, people will come to the end of life. If the heart is relatively fragile, then the fingers will often tremble and not obey the command, especially when holding something in the hand. Some people with very serious heart disease have almost never stopped shaking their fingers.

Nail abnormalities

Generally speaking, normal nails are round and full, while the nails of patients with heart disease are uneven. The crescent of a normal person’s nails remains the same. The crescent can tell a person’s physical health, but it does not mean that the more crescents, the better, but if the number or shape of the crescents changes over a period of time, then The description itself has a certain disease.

clubbing

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Club finger refers to the growth, hypertrophy, widening, thickening of the end of the finger or toe, and the distal knuckle is clubbed from the root to the end A deformed manifestation of enlargement.

The symptom usually occurs symmetrically on both hands and feet. The angle at which the nail extends from the end of the finger is called the upper nail angle. In normal people, the upper nail angle is ≤ 160°, and the angle is ≥ 180° in club fingers, and the soft tissue of the distal knuckle is spherical and shaped like a drumstick.

The method of measuring the upper angle of the nail (normal finger on the left, clubbing on the right)

Introduction by Professor Zheng Junmeng , Club fingerThere is a relatively simple self-test method——Schamroth’s sign test method, put your hands on the same finger (usually the middle finger) distal nails face and the back of the distal knuckles together. Under normal circumstances, a diamond-shaped window is formed at the root of the two nails, and if the gap becomes smaller and disappears, then it isClub finger.

Schamroth’s sign (normal finger on the left, clubbing on the right)

Doctor’s reminder:

If you find abnormal fingers, be sure to promptly Seek medical treatment

Professor Zheng Junmeng reminds that if the finger appears If you have the above symptoms, may have these heart diseases, including: congenital heart disease (such as tetralogy of Fallot, triad of Fallot, dislocation of the heart and great vessels, etc. ), infectious heart disease (subacute bacterial endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, infective myocarditis), and other cardiovascular diseases.

Especially cyanotic congenital heart disease such as tetralogy of Fallot, Eisenmenger syndrome, and dislocation of the great vessels, usually accompanied by cyanosis and clubbing, and clubbing The severity of cyanosis is often in parallel with the severity and duration of cyanosis. However, except for neonates and severe anemia, the former only has cyanosis without clubbing, and the latter has obvious clubbing and mild cyanosis.

“Once you find abnormal fingers, you must go to the hospital as soon as possible, so as not to delay the treatment time. ” Professor Zheng Junmeng said, the doctor will further check the patient, such as physical examination, blood test Routine, blood gas analysis, electrocardiogram, imaging examination, etc., to clarify the cause and symptomatic treatment.

Source: Guangzhou Health Commission , Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

Editor: Huang Yixin

Editor in charge: Wang Hui