Right heart failure symptoms include lower-extremity-dependant edema. When the legs are elevated at night, the fluid redistributes centrally causing pulmonary edema resulting in orthopnea (dyspnea ...

Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Congestive heart failure (CHF) and heart failure are the same thing. Both terms ...

Chronic heart failure occurs when either the left ventricle, the right ventricle ... that may result in dyspnea, pulmonary congestion or pulmonary edema. As HF progresses, chronic elevation ...

After an evaluation that rules out an acute coronary syndrome, she receives a diagnosis of heart failure ... atria, right ventricular size and function within the normal range, and a pulmonary ...