This elevation may be caused by congenital heart disease, cor pulmonale, pulmonary fibrosis, too much erythropoietin, or polycythemia vera.
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The low oxygen level leads to excessive strain on the right side of the heart, known as " cor pulmonale ".
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The Graham Steell murmur is often heard in patients with chronic cor pulmonale ( pulmonary heart disease ) as a result of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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In the last year of his life, he endured diarrheas, caused either by cor pulmonale or by exocrine pancreatic insufficiency ( see below ).
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With time, collateral circulation is formed and the eggs disseminate into the lungs, where they cause more granulomas, pulmonary arteritis and, later, cor pulmonale.
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Right-sided heart failure is often caused by pulmonary heart disease ( cor pulmonale ), which is usually caused by difficulties of the pulmonary circulation, such as pulmonary hypertension or pulmonic stenosis.
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Symptoms of DPB include chronic sinusitis ( inflamed paranasal sinuses ), wheezing, artery ) and cor pulmonale ( dilation of the right ventricle of the heart, or " right heart failure " ).
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When this gene is inhibited, vascular smooth muscle proliferates and can cause pulmonary hypertension, which, among other things, can lead to cor pulmonale, a condition that causes the right side of the heart to fail.
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Venesection is used in severe secondary polycythaemia ( because of hypoxia ), which improves symptoms though survival rate has not been proven to increase . Finally, transplantation of single / double lung in extreme cases of cor pulmonale is also an option.
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"' Pulmonary heart disease "', also known as "'cor pulmonale "'is the right ventricle of the heart as a response to increased vascular resistance ( such as from pulmonic stenosis ) or high blood pressure in the lungs.
