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My mom is having pain on her arms straight to fingers. its swollen . feet also swollen. she cant raise her arms much or do much. is thiscardiomegaly?

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Congestive heart: Cardimegaly is a manifestation of viable heart muscle hypertrophy due to cardiomyopathy from multifactorial etiopathogenesis I.e. viral hypertensive valvular ischemic septic etc. Some combination of factors producing this CXR finding are plausible in coexistence. Right side heart failure prevents the return of blood from the pulmonary vein and the extremities to the ventricle causing fluid collect

Answered 12/30/2017

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