Abstract: The cardiopulmonary pump is designed to deliver O2 to body organs and clean CO2. Lungs provide O2 to blood and remove CO2 and the heart pumps it to all body organs. Diseases and disorders or failure of the lungs or heart significantly affect the other. Chronic respiratory diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, interstitial lung diseases, sleep apnea syndromes, and other lung diseases or disorders may affect heart by common pathway of right heart failure due to increased pulmonary vascular resistance. Failure of the heart pump from any causes also leads to pulmonary congestion, pulmonary hypertension, and right heart failure. Many symptoms and signs of lung diseases may mimic or obscure heart dysfunction or diseases and vice versa. Many diseases or disorders such as rheumatologic disorder, vasculitis, amyloidosis, malignancies, and other systemic diseases or medications used for treatment of them may affect both lung and heart at the same time or separately during their evolution course. This chapter discusses these issues with a special focus on heart diseases that may be induced or exacerbated by the pulmonary diseases.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-10-23
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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