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What is the failure of the right side of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood to the lungs called?
Cor pulmonale
What is pulmonary heart disease also called?
Cor pulmonale
What is cor pulmonale?
Cor Pulmonale is increased strain on the right side of the heart due to lung diseases that increase the pressure of the blood flowing through the lungs. The right ventricle tries to push blood through the diseased and usually scarred lung via vessels called pulmonary arteries, but has trouble doing this because of the scarring, resulting in increased pressure in the artery and therefore the right ventricle. The right ventricle compensates by getting bigger, and ultimately stops working so well.
What are nursing diagnosis for Cor Pulmonale?
Impaired Gas Exchanged related to perfusion problem Decreased cardiac output related ventricular inefficiency
What is the difference between cor pulmonale and pulmonary embolism?
A pulmonary embolism is a tissue fragment (part of a blood clot, fat, amniotic fluid, part of a tumour or bullet fragment) that became loose in the blood stream and was carried by the blood stream to a different location. A pulmonary embolism is, in most cases, a thromboembolism (part of a blood clot), which is carried from the deep veins of the legs or the pevis. It travels up the blood stream, through the inferior vena cava, into the heart, and subsequently into the pulmonary artery. In the pulmonary artery, it arrests, forming a potentially life threating occlusion. Cor pulmonale is hypertrophy of the right ventricle due to chronic pulmonary hypertension. The pulmonay hypertension means that the right ventricle has to pump blood with greater force, causing its muscle to hypertrophy (enlarge in size). Therefore, to summarize, a pulmonary embolism is an obstruction of pulmonary blood flow while cor pulmonale is the morphological change of the right ventricle due to pulmonary hypertension.
