Does CHF cause permanent damage to your lungs?!


Question: Does CHF cause permanent damage to your lungs.?
Answers:
CHF can damage your lungs if it's left-sided heart failure. This will lead to pulmonary hypertension (elevated blood pressure in your lungs) and can damage the blood vessels involved in O2-CO2 exchange. Fortunately, the left side of your heart is much stronger than the right, which is the more common side in CHF patients.Health Question & Answer

depends on what caused it and how it was treated. Was it the result of an MI, a valve prolapse.?atrial fibrillation.? Aortic stenosis.? In and of itself it probably doesn't do permanent damage to the lungs but that's not the point. What caused it is the point. Is that damage irreversable.?
Did they give you diuretics.?Are they going tocorrect the problem surgically.?Health Question & Answer

CHF doesn't really "damage" your lungs structurally. But it does have a habit of recurring with increasing frequency and severity, which can severely compromise a patient's respiratory status.Health Question & Answer

No it doesn't damage your lungs it does however cause fluid to back up into the lungs which interferes with oxygen exchange. That interference results in such prominent symptoms as being short of breath.Health Question & Answer



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