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Can echos show pulmonary hypertension if you don't have it just because your body is full with fluid? i have polydipsia & changing pulmonary pressures
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Interesting question: Elevation of pulmonary pressures can result from volume overload, particularly when there is left heart failure. A normal right heart, however, can compensate for increased volume for a period, preventing increases in pressure. When persistent stresses lead to structural changes in the cells of the right heart, it cannot compensate further and increased pressure results and by echo indices of PHT
Answered 11/12/2014
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