Benefits of a stethoscope – Hossam Mowafi: Diagnosed with a serious heart disease

Dr. Hossam Mowafi, Professor of Critical Cases at the Faculty of Medicine, Kasr Aini, confirmed that the stethoscope helps to detect serious heart disease.

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Mowafi said during his program “My Lord, Increase Me in Knowledge”, broadcast on Sada Al-Balad channel, that the disease he is referring to is a heart murmur or a heart murmur, explaining that it is a sound emanating from a disturbance of blood flow within the valves.

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The professor of critical care medicine added that the stethoscope plays a major role in giving a preliminary diagnosis of this disease, and the reason is due to its ability to determine the regularity of the heartbeat and blood flow in the valves.

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At the end of his speech, he explained that heart murmur results from the presence of narrowing or reflux or both in the valves, which leads to a lack of smooth blood flow within them.

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A heart attack can be detected through some symptoms, identified by the Clevelandclinic and Mayo Clinic sites in the following signs:

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heart rate

– pain in chest.

– shortness of breath.

– dizziness.

Blue nails or lips.

Excessive sweating with little or no exertion.

Body swelling or weight gain.

– Swelling of the neck veins.

Fainting.

Poor appetite and lack of growth in infants.

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