Symptoms
The symptoms of pulmonary heart disease depend on the stage of the disorder. In the early stages, one may have no symptoms but as pulmonary heart disease progresses, most individuals will develop the symptoms like:
- Shortness of breath which occurs on exertion but when severe can occur at rest
- Wheezing
- Chronic wet cough
- Swelling of the abdomen with fluid (ascites)
- Swelling of the ankles and feet (pedal edema)
- Enlargement or prominent neck and facial veins
- Raised Jugular Venous Pulse (JVP)
- Enlargement of the liver
- Bluish discoloration of face
- Presence of abnormal heart sounds
- possible bi-phasic atrial response shown on an EKG due to hypertrophy
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