Pulmonary Hypertension

May 21, 2010 by

Pulmonary hypertension is a extremely rare disorder of the heart. It is usually found in people between the ages of 20 and 40, but has happened in Teenagers before.

The symptoms of this disease can be different in everyone here are the most common symptoms:

shortness of breath , which is made worse by Pulmonary-Hypertensionaerobic activity
fatigue
chest pain
a feeling of lightheadedness
fainting, or passing out
your legs swelling
a cough that does not go away
palpitations which are an unusual feeling of a strong or fast heartbeat
coughing up blood
a bluish tint to the skin

The cause of this disease is that you have high blood pressure in your pulmonary artery. The pulmonary artery supplies blood to your lungs, so your lungs don’t get enough blood causing you to have trouble breathing and other symptoms of Pulmonary Hypertension. One way that doctors can diagnose you is that they hear a heart murmur.

The treatment of this disease can be different for each person depending on how severe it is. The treatment can be as simple as dietary changes to as hard as surgery. There are also different medications that you can take.

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  1.    cy32 said,

    on May 26th, 2010 at 9:49 am   

    Eeewww! I would not want any of those. Have you seen a picture of a person that had this.

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