Left-sided heart failure
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Left-Sided Heart Failure - Congestive Heart Failure
Overview, Causes, & Risk Factors
Symptoms & Signs
Diagnosis & Tests
Prevention & Expectations
Treatment & Monitoring
Attribution ...
Left-sided heart failure means the heart's ability to pump blood forward from the left side of the heart is decreased. The left side of the heart normally receives blood rich in oxygen from the lungs and pumps it to the remainder of the body.
Left-sided heart failure: When the left ventricle can't pump out enough blood, it gets backed-up in the lungs (behind the left ventricle), causing pulmonary edema, a build-up of fluid in the lungs.
Left-sided heart failure
Increasing difficulty in moving around.
Breathlessness at rest or when lying flat (orthopnoea).
Waking up at night with breathlessness (paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea).
A cough with frothy sputum (lung oedema).
Left-sided heart failure
Pulmonary edema
Endocarditis
When to Contact a Medical Professional ...
Left-sided heart failure with pulmonary edema (cardiac asthma)
Crackles and signs of central or peripheral volume overload (eg, distended neck veins, peripheral edema) ...
Often occurs with left-sided heart failure.
Fluid and blood may back up into your abdomen, legs and feet, causing swelling.
Systolic heart failure
The left ventricle can't contract vigorously, indicating a pumping problem.
Left-sided heart failure can cause pulmonary edema, as fluid shifts into the lungs. The patient may develop rapid, shallow respirations, shortness of breath, and a cough.
Left-sided Heart Failure
Valvular heart disease -- poorly-functioning doors between heart's 4 chambers
Arrhythmias -- irregularities in heart rhythm
Cardiomyopathy -- enlarged, balloon- like myocarditis (i.e., infection of heart muscle) ...
To help determine the severity of left-sided heart failure, doctors use an ejection fraction (EF) calculation, also called a left-ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF).
Causes of right-sided heart failure include left-sided heart failure and lung diseases such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
Arrhythmias
Endocarditis
Left-sided heart failure
Left ventricular hypertrophy (enlargement) caused by the extra work of pushing blood through the narrowed valve ...
Swelling or bulging veins may indicate right-sided heart failure or advanced left-sided heart failure.
Listening to breathing (lung sounds).
Listening to the heart for murmurs or extra heart sounds.
Examples of hypertensive emergencies include hypertensive encephalopathy, intracranial hemorrhage, acute left-sided heart failure with pulmonary edema, and dissecting aortic aneurysm.
An untreated or poorly-treated hypertensive patient is at great risk of disabling or fatal left-sided heart failure, heart attack, stroke (cerebral hemorrhage or infarction), severe circulatory problems, or kidney failure at an early age.
Heart failure may affect only the right ventricle (right-sided heart failure) or the left ventricle (left-sided heart failure), or both.
Left-sided heart failure
Lyme disease
Mitral regurgitation; acute
Mitral regurgitation; chronic
Mitral stenosis
Mitral valve prolapse
Multifocal atrial tachycardia
Narcolepsy
Obstructive sleep apnea
Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia ...
 See also: Heart failure, Heart Disease, Symptom, Cancer, Right-sided heart failure
  
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