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Congestive Heart Failure: Excerpt from A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis

Left Heart Failure

Hypertensive heart disease
Coronary artery disease
Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction
Acute myocardial infarction
Aortic and mitral valvular disease
Cardiomyopathy
Pericardial disease
Arrhythmias
Congenital heart disease
Endocarditis
Cardiotoxic drugs (e.g., Adriamycin)
Myocarditis
Acute rheumatic fever
Traumatic heart disease
Thyrotoxicosis
Thiamine deficiency
Anemia
Arteriovenous fistula (e.g., Paget's disease)
Neoplastic heart disease
Toxic shock syndrome
Pulmonary thromboembolism
Postcardioversion
Pregnancy
Left atrial thrombus

Right Heart Failure*

Associated with pulmonary venous hypertension (postcapillary)
   Cardiac disease (see previous Left Heart Failure)
   Pulmonary venous disease
       Mediastinal neoplasm or granuloma
       Mediastinitis and fibrosis
       Anomalous pulmonary venous return
       Congenital pulmonary venous stenosis
       Idiopathic pulmonary veno-occlusive disease
Associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension (precapillary)
   Lung and pleural disease
       Chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma
       Granulomatous disease (e.g., sarcoidosis)
       Pneumonia
       Fibrotic disease
       Neoplasm
       Chronic suppurative disease (e.g., bronchiectasis)
       Cystic fibrosis
       Collagen-vascular disease
       Other restrictive processes
       After lung resection
       Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
       Fibrothorax
   Chest wall deformity
       Kyphoscoliosis
       Thoracoplasty
   Congenital pulmonary hypoplasia (Down syndrome)
   Alveolar hypoventilation
       Neuromuscular
       Primary alveolar hypoventilation
       Obesity
       Sleep apnea syndrome
   High-altitude pulmonary hypertension
Intracardiac disease
   Increased flow associated with large left-to-right shunt
       Patent ductus arteriosus
       Atrial septal defect
       Ventricular septal defect
       Sinus of Valsalva aneurysm
   Decreased flow
       Tetralogy of Fallot
       Peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis (or stenoses)
       Unilateral absence or stenosis of pulmonary artery
Vascular disease
   Pulmonary thromboembolic disease
   Primary pulmonary hypertension
   Hepatic cirrhosis and/or partial thrombosis
   Chemically induced (e.g., aminorex)
   Persistent fetal circulation
   Pulmonary arteritis
   Peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis
   Unilateral stenosis or absence of pulmonary artery
Without pulmonary hypertension
   Pulmonic stenosis
   Tricuspid stenosis (nonrheumatic)
   Tricuspid regurgitation not associated with pulmonary hypertension
   Decreased right ventricular compliance
   Ebstein's anomaly
   Atrial myxoma

Reference

1. Grossman W, Braunwald E: Pulmonary Hypertension, p. 780. See Bibliography, 1.

*See 12-O.

Book Source Details

• Book Title: A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis
• Author(s): Stephen N. Adler, Dianne B. Gasbarra
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Copyright Details: A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis, Copyright © 1999 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

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