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Pulmonary Hypertension Symptoms and Diagnosis |
Ayerza Syndrome; familial primary pulmonary hypertension (FPPH); Hypertension, Pulmonary; Idiopathic pulmonary hypertension; PPH; Primary Pulmonary Hypertension; pulmonary arterial hypertension; sporadic primary pulmonary hypertension |
In medicine, pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an increase in blood pressure in the pulmonary artery or lung vasculature. Depending on the cause, it can be a severe disease with a markedly decreased exercise tolerance and right-sided heart failure. It was first identified by Dr Ernst von Romberg in 1891[1]. It can be one of five different types, arterial, venous, hypoxic, thromboembolic, or miscellaneous. Signs and symptoms A history usually reveals gradual onset of shortness of breath, fa ...
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Signs and symptoms
... The signs and symptoms of pulmonary hypertension are subtle in the early stages of the disease and may not be apparent for months or even years. As the disease progresses, signs and symptoms become mo...
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Causes ... Your heart has two upper and two lower chambers. Each time blood passes through your heart, the lower-right chamber (right ventricle) pumps blood to your lungs through a large blood vessel (pulmonary ...
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Risk factors ... Although anyone can develop either type of pulmonary hypertension, older adults are more likely to have secondary pulmonary hypertension whereas young people are more likely to have primary pulmonary ...
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Screening and diagnosis ... In some cases, your doctor may suspect you have pulmonary hypertension based on the results of a chest X-ray or electrocardiogram (ECG) — a noninvasive test that measures electrical impulses tra...
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