Cardiac asthma: what is it?

I’cardiac asthma describes symptoms ofasthma in people who have no history of asthma orallergy but who can be affected by a heart failure. The term cardiac “pseudo-asthma” is sometimes used. Cardiac asthma should be distinguished from exercise-induced asthma.

Cardiac asthma: symptoms and treatment

The patient has symptoms such as cough and wheezing. The airways are obstructed. Treatment can use beta-adrenergics and anticholinergics.

A asthma attack in an elderly person who has never had asthma or allergic may suggest that the origin is cardiac.

A cardiac cause

This asthma occurs when the patient with heart failure makes an effort. Indeed, his left ventricle cannot evacuate all the blood it receives into the aorta, the blood accumulates upstream in theheadset left and the pulmonary veins. This phenomenon causes a edema from lunga decrease in volume ofair circulation and difficulty breathing.