Club fingers
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Club fingers (lat. digiti Hippocratici ) are the result of long-term hypoxia of the periphery , they accompany various lung diseases ( COPD , tumors , bronchiectasis , tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis ) and heart ( cyanotic heart defects) . They are most noticeable when looking at the finger from the lateral side. The first symptom is a decrease in the angle between the nail bed and the skin, the end of the nail bed floating freely in the skin.
Clubbed fingers in a patient with Eisenmenger syndrome
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Clubbed fingers in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot
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- Congenital heart defects (with pictures of club fingers, atlases.muni.cz)
- Clubbing (English Wikipedia)
- Club fingers (Czech Wikipedia)
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- ↑ LEBL, Jan, Kamil PROVAZNÍK and Ludmila HEJCMANOVÁ, et al. Preclinical pediatrics. 2nd edition. Prague: Galén, 2007. p. 115. ISBN 978-80-7262-438-6 .
