Rod fingers can indicate various diseases. The most common causes of rod-shaped fingers are diseases in the course of which the body becomes hypoxic for a long time, e.g. cyanotic heart defects or severe lung diseases, but not only. Check what other diseases the stick fingers can indicate.

Rod fingers , or rod-like fingers, Hippocratic fingers or drummers, is one of the symptoms of the disease. You can recognize the stick fingers by the fact that the distal or end parts of the fingers are thickened, and the nails are round and convex, which makes them resemble a watch glass (the so-calledwatch nails ).

Rod-shaped spotsmay have idiopathic hereditary and congenital forms. However, the most common is the acquired form, accompanying many diseases.

Rod fingers and respiratory diseases

  • cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease that also manifests itself in chronic cough, recurrent pneumonia and bronchitis
  • chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - breathing difficulties predominate - first during exercise, then also at rest, coughing and expectoration of sputum (mainly in the morning). In the advanced stage of the disease, anorexia, fainting and stick fingers appear
  • pulmonary embolism - shortness of breath, chest pain, dry cough, hemoptysis, fainting
  • pneumothorax - sudden stabbing pain in the chest, pale skin, cyanosis, shallow and rapid breathing
  • bronchiectasis - a triad of symptoms is characteristic: persistent productive cough, profuse, purulent sputum, and haemoptysis. Some patients may develop club fingers
  • interstitial lung diseases - progressive shortness of breath, dry cough, temporary rapid breathing, crackling sounds, fatigue, weight loss, symptoms of pulmonary hypertension
  • extrinsic allergic alveolitis - stick fingers appear as a chronic disease
  • pneumoconiosis - increasing shortness of breath, coughing, fatigue quickly - drummer's sticks appear rarely
  • idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
  • lung cancer.

Rod fingers and cardiovascular diseases

  • cyanotic heart defects (e.g. tetralogy of Fallot)
  • diseases of large arterial and venous vessels (e.g. aortic aneurysm)
  • infectious endocarditis - club fingers appear with long-lasting inflammation. Then the skin becomes "coffee with milk" and the spleen becomes enlarged
  • painful erythema of the limbs (Latinerythromelalgia ) - paroxysmal redness and warming of the skin of the fingers, less often the hands. Accompanying symptoms are swelling and burning pain. These symptoms can also affect the ears and face.
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Band fingersoccurring only in one hand or limited to several fingers, may occur in the following cases:

  • paralysis of the shoulder plexus
  • median nerve inflammation
  • aneurysm of the aorta or subclavian artery
  • sarcoidosis.

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