Can heart disease cause a cough?

Heart disease may cause coughing. Heart disease is generally characterized by panic, palpitations (rapid heartbeat, often accompanied by panic), chest tightness and shortness of breath, when the patient has heart failure, mitral stenosis or belong to the pulmonary heart disease, it may cause cough. 1. Heart failure causing pulmonary stasis: heart failure patients in the diastolic phase of peripheral blood reflux obstruction, resulting in alveolar and bronchial stasis phenomenon, which will cause dyspnea, coughing, and pink foamy sputum appear. 2. Heart failure causes secondary infection: heart failure patients due to insufficient blood supply to the tissues resulting in insufficient local oxygen content and decreased immunity, easy to concurrently infected with other bacteria and viruses, causing bronchitis, cough symptoms. 3. Heart failure compression of bronchial tubes: patients with heart failure often have pathologic dilatation of the left atrium, which compresses the left bronchial tubes and leads to coughing symptoms. 4. Bronchial compression caused by mitral stenosis: in patients with mitral stenosis, blood flows backward into the left atrium during the systolic phase of the left ventricle, resulting in hypertrophy of the left atrium and compression of the left main bronchus, which causes dry cough. 5. Pulmonary heart disease: when the patient’s heart disease belongs to the pulmonary heart disease, often at the same time there is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, then cough symptoms. If there is any discomfort, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time for treatment.