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What Does Enlarged Heart Or Water In Heart Indicate?
Hi, may I answer your health queries right now ? Please type your query here...my one year old nephew - birthday today - is in emergency and they (dr) has said either enlarged heart or water on the heart - please explain. thank you - has been a healthy kid up til now.
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clinical features: shortness of breath, swollen legs particularly around the ankles, most marked when you go to bed. in ability to lie flat in bed needing several pillows.
in an x-ray- as hazy lines in between the lung segments
an echocardiogram: can accurately assess the enlargement and weakness of the heart (termed heart failure if the EF is less than 40% - normal being > 60%)
in an x-ray- as hazy lines in between the lung segments
an echocardiogram: can accurately assess the enlargement and weakness of the heart (termed heart failure if the EF is less than 40% - normal being > 60%)
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