The following symptoms and complaints may indicate cor pulmonale:
Mild cases of chronic cor pulmonale may lack symptoms at rest.
Leading symptoms of cor pulmonale acutum.
- Sudden onset of dyspnea (shortness of breath).
- Cardiac arrhythmia
- Vertigo (dizziness)
- Signs of right heart failure:
- Neck vein congestion
- Congestive liver
- Edema, peripheral (water retention)
- Tachycardia – too fast heartbeat: > 100 beats per minute.
- Cyanosis (cyanosis)
- Shock
Leading symptoms of cor pulmonale chronicum
- Dyspnea (shortness of breath), at the beginning only on exertion.
- Osteoarthropathia hypertrophicans – distension of the bones of the fingers (drumstick fingers).
- Pulmonary angina pectoris (“chest tightness”; lung-related, sudden pain in the heart area).
- Tachycardia – too fast heartbeat: > 100 beats per minute.
- Central cyanosis (cyanosis) [peripheral and central cyanosis can be distinguished by checking the color of the tongue: in peripheral cyanosis the tongue usually does not turn bluish, but in central cyanosis the cyanotic discoloration can be seen]
- Abdominal pain (abdominal pain)
- Ascites (abdominal dropsy)
Associated symptoms
- Nail symptoms: clock glass nails (bulging nails).
