Progressive and Sometimes Fatal Heart Failure: Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes for Progressive and Sometimes Fatal Heart Failure

Dilated Cardiomyopathy Type 3B

Eloisa Arbustini Patrizia Morbini Andrea Pilotto Antonello Gavazzi Luigi Tavazzi Abstract Familial dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) should be an “evidence-based” diagnosis derived from clinical and echocardiographic screening of informed and consenting relatives of index patients, and on the examination of clinical reports[…] [link.springer.com]

Dilated Cardiomyopathy Type 1II

Pulmonary Fibrosis

Some forms of pulmonary hypertension are serious illnesses that become progressively worse and are sometimes fatal. Right-sided heart failure (cor pulmonale). [mayoclinic.org]

This in turn raises pressure within the pulmonary arteries and the lower right heart chamber (right ventricle). [mayoclinic.org]

Secondary Pulmonary Fibrosis

Some forms of pulmonary hypertension are serious illnesses that become progressively worse and are sometimes fatal. Right-sided heart failure (cor pulmonale). [mayoclinic.org]

This in turn raises pressure within the pulmonary arteries and the lower right heart chamber (right ventricle). [mayoclinic.org]

Pleural Fibrosis

Some forms of pulmonary hypertension are serious illnesses that become progressively worse and are sometimes fatal. Right-sided heart failure (cor pulmonale). [mayoclinic.org]

This in turn raises pressure within the pulmonary arteries and the lower right heart chamber (right ventricle). [mayoclinic.org]

Pyrosis

Some forms of pulmonary hypertension are serious illnesses that become progressively worse and are sometimes fatal. Right-sided heart failure (cor pulmonale). [mayoclinic.org]

This in turn raises pressure within the pulmonary arteries and the lower right heart chamber (right ventricle). [mayoclinic.org]

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Some forms of pulmonary hypertension are serious illnesses that become progressively worse and are sometimes fatal. Right-sided heart failure (cor pulmonale). [mayoclinic.org]

This in turn raises pressure within the pulmonary arteries and the lower right heart chamber (right ventricle). [mayoclinic.org]

Familial Pseudohyperkalemia

Progressive symptoms are severe agitation, psychosis, fever, diaphoresis, tachycardia, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, or atrial flutter, confusion, cardiovascular collapse [quizlet.com]

Pituitary Tumur --> causes central hypothyroidism A severe sometimes fatal form of HYPERthyroidism. Initial symptoms are fever, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain. [quizlet.com]

Tracheobronchial Tuberculosis

[…] fibrosis of the pulmonary alveolar walls, with steadily progressive dyspnea, resulting finally in death from oxygen lack or right heart failure. [ufrgs.br]

Sometimes it is a component of BOOP. [ufrgs.br]

The acute, rapidly fatal form is called acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP) / Hamman-Rich disease / cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (94%) and has a severe prognosis : it is [ufrgs.br]