Chest tightness

Introduction There are many reasons for chest tightness and suffocation. It may be a functional manifestation of body organs, or it may be one of the earliest symptoms of human diseases, most commonly due to heart and lung diseases.

Cause

Causes of chest tightness and hernia

1, heart disease: some congenital heart disease, rheumatic valvular heart disease, coronary heart disease, cardiac tumor.

2, the respiratory tract blocked: tracheobronchial long tumor, tracheal stenosis, tracheal external pressure (gothal enlargement, mediastinal long tumor.

3, lung disease: emphysema, bronchitis, asthma, atelectasis, pulmonary infarction, pneumothorax.

4, psychological factors: mainly caused by unpleasant emotions such as depression, lust.

an examination

Related inspection

Thoracic plain electrocardiogram, Friedrich, lateral rectal lung perfusion imaging, abdominal jugular vein reflow test

It is recommended that chest tightness, suffocation, chest radiograph, blood test and electrocardiogram, through comprehensive disease investigation, if the cause can not be found, it should be caused by psychological factors.

After suffering from a cold and upper respiratory tract infection, it is easy to develop toxic myocarditis. One of the main symptoms of this disease is chest tightness and suffocation. The autonomic dysfunction often occurs in women's puberty. Some 16-year-old girls often complain of chest tightness and suffocation, which is mostly caused by autonomic dysfunction.

Chest tightness and hernia are a common symptom in the late stage of uremia patients. For patients, the symptoms will cause great disadvantages. For example, patients will not be able to lie flat during sleep at night, and hernia will increase, sometimes oxygen will not help.

Differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of chest tightness and hernia:

Chest tightness and shortness of breath are self-conscious chest dullness, depression, shortness of breath and difficulty, and only a deep inhalation from time to time is comfortable. In severe cases, a few deep breaths are also not absorbed. By changing the position, yawning, distracting, oxygen, etc., can breathe normally.

Sleeping with hernia is called obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. The current pathogenesis is still not very clear, and its main feature is that adults have at least 30 apneas during 7 hours of sleep.

Chest tightness is a subjective feeling, that is, breathing is not enough or gas is not enough. If the light person has nothing to do, the heavy one feels uncomfortable. It seems that the stone is pressed against the chest and even breathing difficulties occur. It may be a functional manifestation of a body organ or it may be one of the earliest symptoms of a disease in the human body. People of different ages have chest tightness, the cause is different, the treatment is different, and the consequences are different.

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