Cor Pulmonale

Question: what is the difference between cor pulmonale and right-sided heart failure? i'm taking my human anatomy class and we were asked to research on the difference between the two. but all i can find is that both are the same..please help!

Answer: dear corpulmonale its heart failure primarily due to chronic obstructive lung disease ,in which by time the right side of the heart will be dilated and features of fluid over load raised jvp ascites liver enlargement ..ACT............. etc will apeare but right sided heart failure alone its arare condition usually the eitiologic facters may tricusped valve disease specialy in drug abusers or valve damage due to other cuases but features will be the as corpulmonale apert from those related to respiratory disease

Question: How does an MD pronounce cor pulmonale? Can't find it anywhere.

Answer: The pediatrician I worked for pronounced it: cor ( with a long o ) pul ( with a short u ) mo ( with a long o ) nal ( as in all ) cor pulmonale. easy! Simply Curious, NC

Question: what ventricle will be affected by cor pulmonale?

Answer: Cor pulmonale is right sided heart failure. Your specific answer: right ventricle

Question: Can someone explain "cor pulmonale" to me in plain English? My mom passed away when she was 47, very suddenly. In October she will have been gone for ten years. I was 22 when she died. She was overweight, but like a size 16 so not morbidly obese. She'd smoked for a long time but had quit ten years before she died. She'd exhibited a few symptoms in the months before she passed, which in hindsight fit her undiagnosed condition: chest pains, edema, shortness of breath. Her primary physician referred her to (I believe) a cardiologist to check this stuff out, but she passed a stress test cleanly. My mom, not being a person who liked to ruffle feathers, let them tell her she was OK, and a few months later she died in her sleep. Her autopsy revealed she had died of a condition called cor pulmonale. It listed a minor case of undiagnosed emphysema and her weight as contributing factors.

Answer: I'm so sorry for you loss. As the previous answerer said, cor pulmonale is a stretching and/or muscle building in the right ventricle (the main pump to the lungs) in response to damage in the lungs that obstructs blood flow for whatever reason. It's typically the result of pulmonary hypertension, which can be difficult to diagnose. My grandmother suffers from cor pulmonale, but has lived well into her 80's now, after having been told that she had six months to live about 10 years ago. For more details, you may want to read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor_pulmona… Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. I'm happy to explain some of the medical lingo to you.

Question: Can you clarify the different types of heart problems for me? For a class I am learning about heart diseases. I can read their definitions in my text book but I am having a difficult time figuring out how they all fit in together and differentiating one from the other. Here are the ones I need to be able to separate and understand: CHF, Angina, ACS, MI, Vavlular Disorders, Cor Pulmonale and CAD. They're all running together in my mind, help!

Answer: CHF is congestive heart failure. Heart fails in its pumping function as an end result of any major heart disease. Angina: Chest pain due to reduced blood supply to heart muscle, usually brought on by exertion, when the demand for blood supply is more. The cause is usually a narrowing of the blood vessel supplying that region of the muscle. ACS: Acute coronary syndrome - sudden decrease in blood supply to a region of heart producing angina. MI: Myocardial infarction - death of a region of heart muscles due to sudden blockage of a blood vessel supplying that region. This also produces anginal pain. Valvular disorders: Disease of any of the four valves of the heart - mitral, aortic or pulmonary. It can be either a narrowing of the valve orifice or leak. Cor Pulmonale: Cor means heart - disease of the heart secondary to lung disease. Long standing severe lung disease damages the blood vessels of the lung and elevates blood pressure in the pulmonary (lung) vessels. This overloads the right ventricle which pumps blood to the lung and it fails. CAD: Coronary artery disease - disease of the arteries supplying blood to the heart. It can produce angina, ACS and MI. If long standing and severe, it can produce CHF.

Question: How can panic attack cause heart arrest? a person was suffering from congestive heart failure (cor pulmonale due to COPD) and i am wondering if high anxiety/panic attack could have lead to cardiac arrest as person died if so, in which way (how did this happen) ? this happened after 4 days of flu-related COPD exacerbation . i could also imagine some sudden walk excercise added up to the heart failure?

Answer: I suspect its the other way round and the panic attack was a symptom not a cause. This sounds like a case of cardiomyopathy when the heart just stop working either through a viral infection or heredity factors. I've had it and had the panic feeling and flu like symptoms with congestion of the lungs but no swelling of ankles etc. I needed a transplant to survive.

Question: could a short walk (or similar exercise) lead to cardiac arrest ? the person was suffering from congestive heart failure (cor pulmonale ) resulting directly from COPD exacerbation (caused by flu infection) the sudden cardiac death happened after 5 days of COPD exacerbation and a couple of minutes after the person suddenly stood up from a bad, walked to the door to close it and got back to the bad. Could that "exercise" directly cause a sudden death or it had to be a blood clot or something else?

Answer: Probably no more likely to result in an arrest than sitting or lying down.

Question: 2) choose correct answer.? # Cor pulmonale ……..all are true except 1. ? may be acute or chronic 2. ? the first physical sign is raised JVP 3. ? may be caused by postpoli syndrome 4. ? the usual end result of many chronic debilitating lung diseases 5. ? it is defined as right sided heart failure

Answer: 5

Question: Help with EKG results? got my ekg results faxed over. Dr. did not talk to me about it, receptionist called to tell me results were in. Some background: 32yr old healthy female, good shape and vegan, fairly active life style. not sure why dr. sent me. listened to my heart then told me to go get an EKG, that everything sounded fine, but wanted a baseline. grandfather passed away from heart disease in his 60's. ekg report says: right axis deviation, RSR in V1 & v2, consider pulmonary disease with cor pulmonale findings of dubious pathological significance. so how do i know if this is actually significant or not? On the sheet, it looks like my Dr. wrote 'follow' on it, meaning follow up on it? monitor it? Any thoughts? Yes, I will be talkign to my dr. about it soon, but hoping for some insight before then. thanks (btw i feel fine). thansk for the info...no swollen leg, no coughing, lungs feel fine to me..? tired a lot but thats likely because i dont get enough sleep. (work too much)

Answer: Good question. Let me try to help you here... First, and foremost, if you are NOT symptomatic...not much to worry about here. It's good that you don't have swelling in the lower extremities, shortness of breath, cough, etc., etc. The problem with the computer diagnosis on EKGs is that they are often wrong in these situations. I can't begin to tell you the number of times that the computer has spit out some kind of wacky diagnosis that I ended up having to cross out simply because I knew better. They are not perfect machines, and can get practitioners into trouble if they take too much for granted. The other part is the technician who actually performed the EKG. I've caught many tech putting leads on a patient's chest in wrong positions too many times. This can certainly throw off the axis on a report, and spit out a faulty presumptive diagnosis. I would suggest that if you're not having symptoms at this time, then don't worry. You might want to have your EKG repeated again in 6-12 months, and maybe request the doctor to be sure the lead placement is in the correct position before someone presses the ANALYZE button. Remember...there are many facets to heart disease. It's good that you're getting checked out, but there may be more history with your grandfather as to WHY he developed heart disease. If you're healthy, and have good lifestyle management....stay that way. All the best.

Question: what really killed my mum? my mum was only 57 when she died,when she was 18 she had puenmonia and it left a scarred lung,i was told my mum only had one decent lung and whilst its possible to live a good life with one lung,she seemed to get flu every winter then a little while after her mum died my mum had a really scary asthma attack and was on inhalers and steroid inhaler,she did not do much to excersise and smoked till she got asthma,over the following 3or4 years her condition got worse and one day her ankles ballooned and she was in hospital having tests and emphesema was diagnosed,she was given oxygen at home for 12hours a day but used it 24/7 and just sat all day and did vertially nothing,after about a year she could not be woken one morning and was taken to hospital where she died 2days later,her death certificate said she died of heart failure,cor-pulmonale and copd,having respitory problems much of her life can smoking really be the blame?i know it did not help but non smokers get lung disease too

Answer: Please accept my condolences. Well smoking certainly wouldn't have done her any good. And most probably enhanced the situation, especially since she only had one lung.