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Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction clinical symptoms
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Symptoms of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction are infrequent (25% of patients) and include dyspnea, fatigue, syncope, cough and pedal edema.
Symptoms
Symptoms
Symptoms develop in only approximately 25% of patients because progression of the disease is infrequent. [1] [2]
- Chest pain
- Syncope
- Congestive heart failure
- Dyspnea
- Fatigue
- Pedal edema
- Cough
- Cough with pink frothy sputum
- Cardiomegaly
With a gradient of > 75 mm Hg symptoms include fatigability, DOE, angina, syncope and central cyanosis if there is a right-to-left shunt through a patent foramen ovale (PFO).
References
References
- ↑ Roudaut R, Serri K, Lafitte S (2007). “Thrombosis of prosthetic heart valves: diagnosis and therapeutic considerations”. Heart. 93 (1): 137–42. doi:10.1136/hrt.2005.071183. PMC 1861363. PMID 17170355.
- ↑ Apostolakis EE, Baikoussis NG (2009). “Methods of estimation of mitral valve regurgitation for the cardiac surgeon”. J Cardiothorac Surg. 4: 34. doi:10.1186/1749-8090-4-34. PMC 2723095. PMID 19604402.
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