Rheumatic heart disease
A disease of the heart (mainly affecting the heart valves) caused by rheumatic fever.
Disorder
Right Bundle Branch Block [RBBB]
This is a blockage of electrical impulses to the heart’s right ventricle, the lower-right part of the heart
Respiratory Failure
Implies that the lungs are unable to transfer enough oxygen into the blood, resulting in increasing breathlessness and cyanosis. This may be due to many different diseases affecting the lungs, including severe heart failure, which leads to congestion of the lungs (see ‘Congestive Heart Failure’).