How to deal with heart pain when breathing?

The heart is the most important organ in the human body. Its function is to help people circulate blood. Therefore, the heart must keep beating at all times. It can be seen that the heart is under great pressure. There are more and more cases of heart disease in modern life, which has caused great pressure on people's healthy life. For example, for some patients, even breathing will affect their heart pain. Let's take a look at how to deal with heart pain when breathing?

1. Treatment during an attack

(1) Rest: Rest immediately when an attack occurs. Symptoms will generally be relieved after the patient stops moving.

(2) For more severe attacks, fast-acting nitrate preparations can be used. In addition to dilating coronary arteries, reducing resistance and increasing blood flow, this type of drug also relieves angina pectoris by dilating peripheral blood vessels, reducing venous return to the heart, lowering ventricular capacity, intracardiac pressure, cardiac output and blood pressure, reducing cardiac preload and afterload and myocardial oxygen demand.

2. Treatment during remission

It is advisable to avoid various inducements as much as possible. Adjust your diet, especially do not eat too much; avoid smoking and drinking. Adjust daily life and workload to reduce mental burden; maintain appropriate physical activity, but not to the extent that pain symptoms occur; bed rest is generally not required. The three basic principles of drug therapy during remission are: selectively dilating diseased coronary arteries; lowering blood pressure; and improving atherosclerosis.

3. Other treatments

Low molecular weight dextran or hydroxyethyl starch injection is used to improve microcirculatory perfusion and can be used for frequent attacks of angina pectoris. Anticoagulants such as heparin, thrombolytics, and antiplatelet drugs can be used to treat unstable angina. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases the body's oxygen supply and can improve stubborn angina pectoris, but the therapeutic effect is not easy to consolidate. External counterpulsation therapy can increase coronary blood supply and may also be considered. For patients with early heart failure, fast-acting digitalis preparations should be used while treating angina pectoris.

4. Surgical treatment

It mainly involves performing aortic-coronary artery bypass grafting under extracorporeal circulation, using the patient's own great saphenous vein as the bypass graft material, with one end anastomosed to the aorta and the other end anastomosed to the distal end of the diseased coronary artery segment; or the free internal mammary artery is anastomosed to the distal end of the diseased coronary artery, diverting blood flow from the aorta to improve the blood supply to the myocardium supplied by the diseased coronary artery.