Cardiac asthma: Difference between revisions
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Revision as of 14:30, 17 October 2023
Patients with left-sided heart failure may experience asthma-like symptoms, like dyspnoea, wheezing, and coughing, which may be called cardiac asthma. Differentiating cardiac and bronchial asthma is usually not a problem.
Patients with cardiac asthma usually have other symptoms of heart failure, the presence of cardiac risk factors, frothy sputum when coughing, are older, have abnormal ECG, chest x-ray, etc. They usually don’t have allergy, and spirometry does not show the characteristic features of bronchial asthma.