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 ...

The most common cause of right heart failure is left heart failure. As the left ventricle fails, the pressures increase and transmit to the left atrium, the pulmonary veins, the pulmonary arterial ...

This includes right-sided heart failure and left-sided heart failure ... like the overload of fluid in the lower limbs (peripheral edema) or lungs (pulmonary edema), it is not a criterion for ...

Three patients with severe congestive heart failure and fluid ... solution), fluid at the right lung base, enlargement of the liver to the umbilicus and a ++ pitting edema of the legs.