pulmonary heart

Each year there are about 20,000 deaths and close to 280,000 hospital admissions among individuals who have pulmonary heart disease.

The majority of individuals affected by pulmonary heart disease are women less than 65 years of age.

The symptoms of pulmonary heart disease depend on the stage of the disorder.

Pulmonary heart disease is by definition a condition when the lungs cause the heart to fail.

This is known as pulmonary heart disease.

Pulmonary heart disease is also known as right heart failure or cor pulmonale.

While pulmonary heart disease is serious, it is much less common than coronary artery disease.

Over a five-year period, 41 cases of chronic pulmonary heart disease were observed at the hospital, representing 7.14% of hospitalized patients.

In many cases, the diagnosis of pulmonary heart disease is not easy as both the lung and heart disease can produce similar symptoms.

All patients with pulmonary heart disease are maintained on blood thinning medications to prevent formation of blood clots.

In the early stages, one may have no symptoms but as pulmonary heart disease progresses, most individuals will develop the symptoms like:

The Graham Steell murmur is often heard in patients with chronic cor pulmonale (pulmonary heart disease) as a result of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The observation trip was cut short when he suffered a pulmonary heart attack in Chicago and was soon flown back to the Philippines by TUCP/KMP after being hospitalized for a brief period there.

Cor pulmonale (Latin cor, heart + New Latin pulmōnāle, of the lungs) or pulmonary heart disease is enlargement of the right ventricle of the heart as a response to increased resistance or high blood pressure in the lungs (pulmonary hypertension).