Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea

Paroxysmal Nocturnal Dyspnoea (PND)
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Dyspnoea is a medical symptom that literally means 'bursts of breathlessness happening throughout the night'. It can be a sign of heart failure.

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Swelling (oedema)
Fainting (syncope).
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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).

See also: Symptom, Dyspnoea, Heart failure, Infections, Death