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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 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.
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.
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Latest revision as of 10:23, 23 November 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.