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P. Rajarajeswari1*, P. Abdul Munaff1, Dr. V.
Chanukya2
1Santhiram College of Pharmacy, Nandyal,
Kurnool (Dt), Andhra Pradesh, India
2Assistant professor, Department of
Pharmacy Practice, Santhiram College of Pharmacy, Nandyal
Corresponding author: P. Rajarajeswari, JNTUA, Santhiram
College of Pharmacy, E-mail: ambika.ram3@gmail.com
Citation: P. Rajarajeswari, et al. (2020) A Typical Report on
Rheumatic Heart Disease. Med Healthcare Rep, 2(2);1-1.
Copyright: © 2020, P. Rajarajeswari, This is an open-access article
distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are
credited.
ABSTRACT
The heart is made up of four chambers that blood travels through and is pumped out to the entire body. The chambers are separated by valves that open and close to allow blood to collect and then flow through to the next chamber of the heart. Inflammation of the heart valves can permanently damage them and cause rheumatic heart disease. Rheumatic heart disease is when the mitral or aortic valve becomes damaged. Initially, this causes the valves to leak when they should be closed. Over time, if they continue to be damaged, it can cause stenosis, or narrowing, of the valve and the leaking becomes worse. When the heart valves are damaged, it makes the heart have to work harder in an effort to pump enough blood to the rest of the body. Over time, this can lead to heart failure. In the present case, the patient of age 24 years male was admitted in the general medicine ward with the chief complaints of slurring speech and decreased activity since 15 days. He also have develop the slowness of speech i.e.(decreased rate, volume, tone). His past medical history shown that, he had a double value replacement surgery 6 years back and took medications for 3 months. His INR ratio was found to be 1.4 sec and ESR – 20mm/hr. As per the bedside language assessment test found that he is suffering from Brocas aphasia. The treatment includes anticoagulants, diuretics, antiplatelets, analgesics; anticonvulsants are given to get a symptomatic relief.
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