How to care for elderly patients with cor pulmonale?

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For many friends, usually good living habits are very important, especially for those older friends, you like pulmonary heart disease is a very common one, some friends also call it pulmonary heart disease, this disease is mainly due to bronchitis, or pulmonary artery vascular disease caused by pulmonary hypertension, and then caused by heart disease. And can be divided into acute and chronic two categories, must cause our enough attention, then the elderly suffering from pulmonary heart disease after see what department?

How to care for elderly patients with cor pulmonale?

1. First of all, if patients feel unwell in life, they should go to the hospital for examination in time. If they suspect that they have similar pulmonary heart disease, they can go to the Department of Neurology for relevant examination first. Through a series of examinations, problems can be quickly found.

2. There are many reasons that can cause cor pulmonale, such as bronchi and lung diseases are the most common reasons, chronic bronchi complicated with obstructive emphysema is the most common, followed by bronchial asthma and bronchiectasis and other complex diseases.

3. In addition to the basic diseases of the lung and chest, and acute lung infection, there will also be pulmonary hypertension, such as the expansion of the right lower pulmonary artery trunk and the enlargement of the right ventricle, which are the main basis for the diagnosis of cor pulmonale.

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Finally, we want to say that pulmonary heart disease is often repeated acute exacerbation, with the gradual aggravation of lung function damage, most patients do not recover very well, but active treatment can improve the quality of life of patients.