Pulmonary embolisms are clots in the lung, when the clot is dislodged from its place in the lung, it would find another area to get lodged in which could be the heart or the brain. When it goes to the heart it will usually cause a heart attack, but occasionally when the heart is already in moderate health it can do much worse.
Pulmonary edema is a result of a left ventricle failure or simply congestive heart failure which results in the heart not being able to remove fluid from lung circulation.
1) Ischeamic cardiac diseases. 2) thrombosis of veins, which can get dislodged in pulmonary circulation and cause pulmonary embolism. 3) myocardial infarction
None, air in the heart will cause an embolism stopping blood flow.
A pulmonary embolism is a tissue fragment (part of a blood clot, fat, amniotic fluid, part of a tumour or bullet fragment) that became loose in the blood stream and was carried by the blood stream to a different location. A pulmonary embolism is, in most cases, a thromboembolism (part of a blood clot), which is carried from the deep veins of the legs or the pevis. It travels up the blood stream, through the inferior vena cava, into the heart, and subsequently into the pulmonary artery. In the pulmonary artery, it arrests, forming a potentially life threating occlusion. Cor pulmonale is hypertrophy of the right ventricle due to chronic pulmonary hypertension. The pulmonay hypertension means that the right ventricle has to pump blood with greater force, causing its muscle to hypertrophy (enlarge in size). Therefore, to summarize, a pulmonary embolism is an obstruction of pulmonary blood flow while cor pulmonale is the morphological change of the right ventricle due to pulmonary hypertension.
No not at all, if you take steroids they can lead to heart failure.
Congestive heart failure can cause pulmonary edema but I am not sure about an embolism.Congestive heart failure (CHF) depending on the severity of the condition can cause pulmonary edema. As the disease progresses, if the patient has left sided CHF, the blood does not flow properly and will get backed-up into the lungs thereby causing pulmonary edema. For those with right-sided heart failure, you will get back-up into the peripheral vascular system and will have edema of the extremities (hands and feet). As for the embolism, again, as the CHF worsens, the work of the heart is increasing and the heart is not effectively pumping the blood. As the heart begins to pump less and less blood with each contraction, you can get stagnation of the blood in the chambers of the heart. Blood clots (ie embolism) can occur. This is also true for individuals who have atrial fibrillation because the blood is not effectively pumped out of the heart.
Jules Henri Poincare died on July 17, 1912, at the age of 58. The exact cause of his death was not widely reported, but it is believed that he died from a pulmonary embolism or heart failure.
Pulmonary edema is a result of a left ventricle failure or simply congestive heart failure which results in the heart not being able to remove fluid from lung circulation.
1) Ischeamic cardiac diseases. 2) thrombosis of veins, which can get dislodged in pulmonary circulation and cause pulmonary embolism. 3) myocardial infarction
prolonged bed rest, surgery, childbirth, heart attack, stroke, congestive heart failure, cancer, obesity, a broken hip or leg, oral contraceptives, sickle cell anemia,
I have just been discharged from hospital after my third pulmonary embolism and second in a year. I think it helps to get to hospital as soon as poss if you are having symptoms.
congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema
Flash pulmonary edema is a rapid onset edema that occurs in the lungs. Typically it is precipitated by a myocardial infarction or heart failure. Pulmonary edema is treated by treating the underlying cause which is most commonly some form of heart failure.
There are many diseases which cause blood-stained phlegm. The first to mind is Tuberculosis, but it may also be a symptom of congestive heart failure, a pulmonary embolism, lung cancer (large or small cell), pneumonia and chronic bronchitis.
Yes, congestive heart failure can cause lung nodules. Lung nodules often lead to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, also called COPD.
right-sided heart failure, when the right ventricle is hypertrophied or dilated which is secondary to pulmonary hypertension (usu. d/t pulmonary embolism in acute cor pulmonale, but d/t COPD in chronic cor pulmonale)
Cardiac pulmonary edema - also known as congestive heart failure - occurs when the diseased or overworked left ventricle isn't able to pump out enough of the blood it receives from your lungs.