Orthopnea is often a symptom of left ventricular heart failure and/or pulmonary edema.

Some patients present with episodes of flash pulmonary edema (sudden left ventricular heart failure).

A type of cardiac asthma associated with heart disease, such as left ventricular failure.

The remaining patient, a 60 year old man with severe respiratory and left ventricular failure died from sepsis.

Left ventricular failure is, in turn, the most common cause of right ventricular dilation.

He was taken to Eastbourne Hospital but developed a chest infection and died on 4 July of left ventricular failure.

Hypotension, oliguria, left ventricular failure, and sudden death can occur as a result of rapid IV administration.

Also, left ventricular failure leads to pulmonary edema which increases and may impede breathing if the patient is laid flat.

Left ventricular failure (heart condition)

Other possible complications that may arise include: pericarditis, endocarditis, left ventricular failure, valvulitis and fibrosis.

Over time, this increased load placed on the heart causes left ventricular hypertrophy and eventually left ventricular failure.

Additionally, it can be used for the alleviation of pain in patients with dyspnea associated with acute left ventricular failure and pulmonary oedema.

Conversely, they can lead to symptomatic disturbances in cardiac conduction and bradyarrhythmias, and may aggravate left ventricular failure.

A postmortem examination was carried out on 1 January 2008 and it was revealed O'Donnell died of left ventricular failure.

These infiltrates may appear similar to those of left ventricular failure, but the cardiac silhouette appears normal in ARDS.

Complications of this treatment include left ventricular failure, aortic dissection, cerebral hemorrhage and progressive aortic regurgitation or stenosis.

The most common causes of transudative pleural effusions in the United States are left ventricular failure, and cirrhosis (causing hepatic hydrothorax).

Nebivolol is a β receptor blocker with nitric oxide-potentiating vasodilatory effect used in treatment of hypertension and, in Europe, also for left ventricular failure.

Signs and symptoms of left ventricular failure may become evident, including congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and an increased incidence of thromboembolic events.

Also, the pulmonary capillary wedge pressure is normal (less than 18 mmHg) in ARDS, but raised in left ventricular failure.

Shortness of breath (dyspnea) occurs when the damage to the heart limits the output of the left ventricle, causing left ventricular failure and consequent pulmonary edema.

As the left ventricle becomes unable to compensate for an acute rise in systemic vascular resistance, left ventricular failure and pulmonary edema or myocardial ischemia may occur.

In left ventricular failure, there may be evidence of vascular redistribution ("upper lobe blood diversion" or "cephalization"), Kerley lines, cuffing of the areas around the bronchi, and interstitial edema.

It has also been used to diagnose severity of left ventricular failure and mitral stenosis, given that elevated pulmonary capillary wedge pressure strongly suggests failure of left ventricular output.

This condition is a swelling of lung tissue due to left ventricular failure, an inability of the left ventricle of the heart to adequately pump blood from the lungs into arterial system.

Heart - evidence on electrocardiogram screening of the heart muscle thickening up (but may also be seen on chest X-ray) suggesting left ventricular hypertrophy) or by echocardiography of less efficient function (left ventricular failure).

Additional signs indicating left ventricular failure include a laterally displaced apex beat (which occurs if the heart is enlarged) and a gallop rhythm (additional heart sounds) may be heard as a marker of increased blood flow, or increased intra-cardiac pressure.