128 Possible Causes for Orthopnea in USA

• Pneumonia
  Orthopnea
• Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis
  Orthopnea
• Acute Aortic Regurgitation
  Orthopnea
• Bacterial Pneumonia
  Orthopnea
• Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
  Orthopnea

  When the legs are elevated at night, the fluid redistributes centrally causing pulmonary edema resulting in orthopnea (dyspnea while laying flat) or paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea … Elevated atrial pressures produce symptoms of systemic and pulmonary venous congestion (dyspnea, orthopnea, edema, abdominal discomfort), and underfilled ventricles result … Symptoms and Signs Symptoms are exertional dyspnea, orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, and peripheral edema.^{[1] [2] [3]}

• Hypereosinophilic Syndrome
  Orthopnea
• Asthma
  Orthopnea
• Mitral Valve Insufficiency
  Orthopnea

  may lead to papillary muscle dysfunction), significant acute mitral regurgitation (MR) is accompanied by symptoms of impaired LV function, such as dyspnea, fatigue, and orthopnea … Patients may be asymptomatic or may have manifestations like fatigue caused by reduced cardiac output, tachypnea or dyspnea, orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea and hemoptysis … acute MI are typically severely symptomatic and will have the signs and symptoms of acute decompensated congestive heart failure (i.e. shortness of breath, pulmonary edema, orthopnea^{[4] [5] [6]}

• Congestive Heart Failure
  Orthopnea

  Features due to left heart failure: Dyspnea, orthopnea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea: These symptoms develop due to congestion of the lungs. … Later on orthopnea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea also develop. … Orthopnea refers to breathlessness on lying flat.^[7]

• Pulmonary Edema
  Orthopnea

  caused by poisonous gas or severe infection Major injury Symptoms of pulmonary edema may include: Coughing up blood or bloody froth Difficulty breathing when lying down (orthopnea … Coughing up blood or bloody froth Difficulty breathing when lying down (orthopnea) Feeling of "air hunger" or "drowning" (This feeling is called "paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea … caused by poisonous gas or severe infection Major injury Symptoms of pulmonary edema may include: Coughing up blood or bloody froth Difficulty breathing when lying down (orthopnea^{[8] [9]}

Orthopnea

Similar symptoms

• Anterior Radial Head Dislocation
• Bone Mineral Density Reduced
• Cerebrospinal Fluid Glycine Decreased
• Creatine Kinase Mildly Increased
• Defective T Cell Proliferative Responses
• Diffuse Demyelinating Neuropathy
• Fibrosing Pneumonitis
• Fish Scale-Pattern of Lamellae
• Genetic Heterogeneity (see HHT1, OMIM 187300)
• Hitchhiker Halluces
• Impaired Thermal Sense
• Loss of Fat of the Upper Body
• Loss of Neurons Affecting All Cortical Layers
• Methionine Increased
• Mild to Moderate Joint Limitation
• Moonshine
• Mutation in the LDHA Gene (OMIM 150000.0001)
• Mutation in the Methylmalonyl CoA Epimerase Gene
• Mutation in the NPHP1 Gene (OMIM 607100.0001)
• Mutation in the Slow Type Myosin Binding Protein C Gene
• Narrow Ear Lobes
• Normal B12
• Orthopnea
• Poor Enamel
• Poor Somatic Growth
• Progressive Central Vision Loss
• Severe Microcephaly (>9 SD)
• Short Femora with Proximal Clubbing and Distal Tapering
• Short Humeri with Proximal Clubbing and Distal Tapering
• Villous Blunting

References

1. Restrictive cardiomyopathy | LearntheHeart.com, http://www.healio.com/cardiology/learn-the-hear…
2. Chapter 34. Restrictive, Obliterative, and Infiltrative Cardiomyopathies | Hurst's The Heart, 13e | AccessMedicine, http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.asp…
3. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy - Cardiovascular Disorders, http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/cardio…
4. Mitral Valve Insufficiency, https://www.symptoma.com/en/info/mitral-valve-i…
5. Mitral Regurgitation Clinical Presentation: History, Physical, Causes, http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/155618-cl…
6. Mitral insufficiency, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitral_insufficiency
7. Congestive Heart Failure, https://www.symptoma.com/en/info/congestive-hea…
8. Pulmonary edema: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia, https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/articl…
9. Pulmonary edema: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia, https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000140.htm