Dyspnea by Congestive Heart Failure or Pericarditis

Dyspnea by Congestive Heart Failure or Pericarditis

Congestive heart failure is a medical condition in which the heart muscle doesn’t pump enough blood to the rest of the body. Diseases such as hypertension, heart attack, heart defects, and diabetes all increase the risk of the heart failure. Pericarditis is the inflammation of the pericardium, the sac-like membrane surrounding the heart.

Chronic pericarditis may produce the similar symptoms as that of the heart failure. For example, they all cause the accumulation of blood in the lung and consequent edema. Therefore, one of common symptoms is shortness of breath, which is shallow breathing, paroxysmal or recurrent. There are chest pain or chest tightness, cyanosis, and cough. The symptoms may happen or get worsen at night, but relieved by sitting up.

Please to go see your doctor right way for diagnosis and treatments if there are above symptoms, or any sign that concern you.