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Right-sided heart failure
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Right-sided heart failure is a condition in which the right side of the heart loses its ability to pump blood efficiently.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors: ...
Right-sided heart failure means the right ventricle of the heart loses its pumping function.
Left-sided heart failure means the heart's ability to pump blood forward from the left side of the heart is decreased.
Right-sided heart failure (cor pulmonale). In this condition, your heart's right ventricle becomes enlarged and has to pump harder than usual to move blood through narrowed or blocked pulmonary arteries.
Right-sided heart failure and biventricular failure
Swelling in the legs (oedema).
Oedema may lead to dry skin on the lower part of the legs because of pressure from inside the tissue.
Right-sided heart failure
Causes
Normally, the left side of the heart produces a higher blood pressure in order to pump blood to the body. The right side of the heart pumps blood through the lungs under much lower pressure.
Cor pulmonale (right-sided heart failure)
Hypertension (high blood pressure)
Immobility
Lung infections
Myocarditis (infection of the heart muscle)
Paralysis of the legs
Paralytic ileus (intestinal paralysis)
Pneumonia ...
Liver enzymes may be elevated if there is right-sided Heart Failure.
Electrocardiogram or EKG -- (recording of electrical activities of the heart) in Pericarditis has a characteristic pattern.
This may be caused by chronic right-sided heart failure (cor pulmonale) and tricuspid regurgitation, as well as obstructing lesions of the hepatic veins and inferior vena cava.
Left-sided heart failure often leads to right-sided heart failure.
Right-sided heart failure: The right ventricle cannot pump out enough blood, ...
Right-sided heart failure can cause pitting edema, a swelling in the tissue under the skin of the lower legs and feet. Pressing this tissue with a finger tip leads to a noticeable momentary indentation.
Kidney disease.
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.
Right-sided heart failure
Sick sinus syndrome
Stable angina
Stroke
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Tetralogy of Fallot
Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis
Transient ischemic attack (TIA)
Transposition of the great vessels
Tricuspid regurgitation ...
Need for breathing machine and oxygen therapy
Right-sided heart failure or cor pulmonale (heart swelling and heart failure due to chronic lung disease)
Pneumonia
Pneumothorax
Severe weight loss and malnutrition ...
For patients with right-sided heart failure, treatment also includes fluid restriction, cardiac glycosides to increase cardiac output, and diuretics to decrease intravascular volume and extravascular fluid accumulation.
Heart failure may affect only the right ventricle (right-sided heart failure) or the left ventricle (left-sided heart failure), or both.
As the disease progresses, these patients develop signs of right-sided heart failure and are known as "blue bloaters".
Brain infection (abscess)
Lung collapse (atelectasis)
Pneumonia
Right-sided heart failure
Stroke ...
Pulmonary hypertension. Increased pressures within the blood vessels in the lungs that can lead to difficulty breathing and right-sided heart failure.
associated with sleep apnea may result in feeling drowsy through the day (somnolence), high blood pressure, and pulmonary hypertension. In extreme cases, especially when medical treatment is not sought, this can lead to right-sided heart failure (cor ...
vigorously) or diastolic heart failure (when the left ventricle loses its ability to relax or fill fully) or a combination of both. The distinction is important because the drug treatments for each type may be different. Right-sided heart failure can ...
tricuspid regurgitation, a heart valve disorder
various liver diseases
Wilson's disease, a disorder that allows copper to accumulate in the liver and other organs
years of severe right-sided heart failure ...
However, for those who continue to have swollen adenoids because they were not removed during childhood, the health problems during adulthood can include sleep apnea, pulmonary hypertension and sometimes, right-sided heart failure.
Mobility may be severely affected for 6-12 months during the treatment and recovery phase.
Pulmonary hypertension - symptoms include progressive breathlessness and eventually right-sided heart failure, this may not completely resolve with treatment.
In response, the right side of the heart works harder to move the blood through these arteries and it becomes enlarged. Eventually overworking the right side of the heart may lead to right-sided heart failure, resulting in death.
 See also: Heart failure, Symptom, Hypertension, Heart Disease, Surgery
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