Cor Pulmonale Revisited

Cor pulmonale revisited.

I remember first being introduced to the term cor pulmonale in medical school, which was used to describe right heart failure due to chronic lung disease, and I still have a mental picture of the typical patient as a former heavy smoker, dyspneic at rest, and cyanotic with neck vein distention and lower extremity edema. However, even early catheterization studies of the normal and diseased huma...

Oedema and cor pulmonale revisited.

Cor Pulmonale

ar+ Unsual obstruction is found in the pulmonary adH^' Electrocardiography in spite of many ari!^ ?ns ^ea<^s does no^ appear to have "ed much to our knowledge. Two new procedures, essentially clinical, have ^1 yet been made use of in unravelling the ystery of the genesis of Cor, Pulmonale. They of*(1) The removal of a lung. The reduction ? the vascular bed is not likely to be less than e one ca...

Chronic cor pulmonale.

The incidence of chronic cor pulmonale in Indian states, including Delhi, is the highest reported in nonindustrial populations. The patients presented as acute severe congestive heart failure and at younger ages than those reported. In amany eases there was only a short history of respiratory symptoms. Following the first attack of failure, repeated attacks were the rule and death ensued within...

Chronic cor pulmonale.

The term “cor pulmonale” is still very popular in the medical literature, but its definition varies and there is presently no consensual definition. Forty years ago an expert committee of the World Health Organization defined cor pulmonale as “hypertrophy of the right ventricle resulting from diseases affecting the function and/or structure of the lungs . . .”. This pathological definition is i...