When should you consult a cardiorheumatologist?

      A pediatric cardiorheumatologist deals with a wide range of heart diseases. The doctor can determine the presence of the disease both in the early and later stages. Everything depends on the presence or absence of certain symptoms.

     In order to provide the child with appropriate care and treatment in a timely manner, it is recommended to contact a specialist in case of:

• frequent breathing, blueing of the nasolabial triangle in babies during feeding;

• detection of heart murmurs during regular examination at the pediatrician;

• presence of chronic ENT diseases (adenoiditis, tonsillitis, pharyngitis);

• the appearance of shortness of breath, frequent changes in blood pressure, the appearance of a feeling of lack of oxygen and pain in the sternum;

• systematic headache.

What diseases does a pediatric cardiorheumatologist diagnose and treat?

• congenital and acquired heart defects;

• vascular dyskinesias;

• non-rheumatic diseases of the myocardium;

• rheumatic lesion of children's heart;

• rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis;

• acute rheumatic fever;

• heart rhythm disturbance;

• functional cardiopathies;

• diffuse connective tissue diseases, scleroderma.