To assess how a patient with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is faring on therapy, look at the right heart, said Anjali ...

Right heart failure symptoms include lower-extremity-dependant edema. When the legs are elevated at night, the fluid redistributes centrally causing pulmonary edema resulting in orthopnea (dyspnea ...

Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD The different types of heart failure include left- and right-sided heart failure ...

Death was due to pulmonary edema in 6 cases ... in the pulmonary artery (Fig. 5). Failure of the right ventricle in aortic-valve and hypertensive heart disease was not related to the duration ...

post-capillary pulmonary hypertension, and secondary right heart failure as well as decreased cardiac output are similar to those of systolic left ventricular failure, although the nature of ...

Chronic heart failure occurs when either the left ventricle, the right ventricle ... that may result in dyspnea, pulmonary congestion or pulmonary edema. As HF progresses, chronic elevation ...

This includes right-sided heart failure and left-sided heart failure ... like the overload of fluid in the lower limbs ...