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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. | ||
[[Category:Pulmonology]] | [[Category:Pulmonology]] | ||
[[Category:Cardiology]] | [[Category:Cardiology]] | ||
Revision as of 11:32, 7 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.