What Is Cardiac Asthma?
Cardiac asthma isn't true asthma, although it causes similar symptoms. True asthma is triggered by allergies, pollutants, exercise, stress, or lung disease.
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Cardiac Asthma
My cardiac career also includes cardiac asthma as the result of an immune reaction where a mild flu was mistaken by the immune system as an allergy.
Cardiac Asthma
The term "cardiac asthma" refers to wheezing associated with congestive heart failure. It isn't true asthma. As a result of congestive heart failure, fluid can build up in the lungs (pulmonary edema).
Cardiac asthma
Other bronchial conditions
Vocal cord dysfunction (VCD)
Other hypersensitivity reactions
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Cardiac asthma: What causes it?
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They can include shortness of breath (dyspnea), asthma (cardiac asthma), pooling of blood (stasis) in the general body (systemic) circulation or in the liver's (portal) circulation, swelling (edema), ...
Heart failure - (cardiac asthma), that is, wheeze and breathlessness due to congestion in the lungs, from fluid caused by heart failure.
Tumours - benign or malignant tumours of the lungs, causing breathing difficulties.
Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea is also sometimes called cardiac asthma because its signs and symptoms mimic those of asthma. This term is actually misleading -- the two conditions are very different.
But wheezing may occur in other disorders affecting the small airways, including heart failure (cardiac asthma), anaphylaxis, and toxic inhalation. Sometimes, healthy patients manifest wheezing during a bout of acute bronchitis.
Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Heart failure (cardiac asthma)
Insect sting that causes an allergic reaction
Medications (particularly aspirin)
Pneumonia
Smoking
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They can include shortness of breath (dyspnea), asthma due to the heart (cardiac asthma), pooling of blood (stasis) in the general body (systemic) circulation or in the liver's (portal) circulation, swelling (edema), blueness or duskiness (cyanosis), ...
 See also: Asthma, Heart failure, Symptom, Cough, Heart Disease
  
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