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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If they have moderate to severe heart failure with pulmonary or peripheral edema, they may need to reduce their sodium intake even further to 2000-3000 mg per day. The reduction in intracardiac ...

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 ...

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