Cardiopulmonary hypertrophy means that the heart and lungs are dilated or the muscles of the organs are thickened. It is common in heart valve disease, heart failure, pulmonary embolism, emphysema and other diseases.
As the heart and lungs are one, the body circulation, pulmonary circulation and respiration are interdependent and affect each other, and cardiac hypertrophy and pulmonary hypertrophy may be the cause and effect of each other.
Generally, cardiac hypertrophy refers to the expansion of the heart chambers or thickening of the heart wall, which is common in cardiovascular diseases such as heart valve disease and heart failure, and usually has symptoms such as chest tightness, chest pain, dyspnea, and lower limb edema.
Lung hypertrophy is generally associated with heart disease, such as left heart failure to pulmonary blood stasis, pulmonary edema; right heart failure may lead to lower extremity venous thrombosis, increasing the incidence of pulmonary embolism, pulmonary embolism, the so-called hypertrophy; in addition, emphysema because of over-inflation of the alveoli, there will also be the so-called “lung”.
Most of the cardiopulmonary hypertrophy will lead to corresponding symptoms, patients should consult a doctor in time to clarify the condition, and then take the correct treatment measures under the guidance of the doctor.