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Why is a patient with emphyema likely to develop failure of the right side of the heart before developing left sided heart failure?
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∙ 6y ago
the right side is the smaller walled muscle as well as having less workload component. however the right side is what pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs. emphysema causes myriad issues with the vascular system in the lungs which produces backpressure to the right side of the heart. ignoring significant other involvement - the kidneys get impacted causing fluids to back up into the right side of the heart - called congestive heart failure (CHF). again this is a very simplified approach so a lay person may better grasp the subject
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 14y agoEmphysema causes increased resistance in the pulmonary vasculature. Much like systemic hypertension causes hypertrophy of the left ventricle, pulmonary hypertension causes hypertrophy of the right ventricle, which over time, because the right ventricle can only pump against so much pressure, may cause right sided heart failure.
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∙ 6y agoemphysema from lungs a heart have alternative relation then it cause heat failure
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