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What is cardiac cough?

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Due to heart failure: Cardiac cough is a terminology used to describe cough due to pulmonary congestion in heart failure.It produces frothy phlegm typically.

Dr Dosanjh and 2 doctors agreed

Answered 12/19/2019

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