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Can congestive heart failure cause lung nodules?
Yes, congestive heart failure can cause lung nodules. Lung nodules often lead to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, also called COPD.
What causes frothy white lung secretions?
Pulmonary edema, Congestive heart failure,
Diseases in lung which involves liquid in the pleural cavity?
pneumonia, breast cancer, lung cancer and emphysema. The most common one is congestive heart failure.
What condition accompanies heart failure and is characterized by noninfectious fluid build up in the alveoli and lung tissues?
Possibly this is know as 'congestive heart failurs'.
How may cardiac diseases be diagnosed from a chest x ray?
Congestive heart failure and other cardiac diseases may be indicated on the view of a heart and lung in a chest radiograph.
When did Bob Bullock die?
Bob Bullock died on June 18, 1999, in Austin, Texas, USA of lung cancer and congestive heart failure.
Pulmonary edema is due to failure of which part of the heart?
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.
When did Chuck Domanico die?
Chuck Domanico died on October 18, 2002, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA of congestive heart failure, due to lung cancer.
What is the medical term meaning a method of physical assessment using a stethoscope to listen to sounds within the chest?
This is called auscultation, and is used most often to listen for heart and lung sounds. You can also ausculate the abdomen to listen for stomach and bowel sounds.
What is congestive heart failure?
Congestive heart failure is when both the left and the right ventricle cannot function anymore. it'll lead to the low cardiac output and reduce in venous return. People with this problem classically will present as having lower limb/ sacral edema and also pleural effusion (fluid in lung). You can imagine the heart as a box which is so packed with sand that you can neither fill it in with sand anymore nor remove any sand from the box. Symptoms of congestive heart failure also consist of shortness of breath with simple tasks, coughing or inability to breathe when lying flat, chest discomfort and the feeling like you have a chest cold although you do not otherwise feel sick. There are other warning signs that vary from patient to patient.
What does auscultation bilaterally mean?
Auscultation bilaterally means listening to sounds, such as heart or lung sounds, on both sides of the body. This allows for comparison to check for symmetry and abnormalities in the sounds heard on each side.
How can someone have a hard time breathing when you are not getting any exercise at the moment and not have asthma?
Shortness of breath can be caused by other lung diseases, such as Emphysema, Chronic Bronchitis, Pulmonary Fibrosis, etc. Or a heart condition such as CHF,(Congestive Heart Failure), or fluid overload, or Kidney Failure. or Anemia just to name a few.
