What does CP stand for?

Cor Pulmonale

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Samples in periodicals archive:

A Cor pulmonale is actually high blood pressure in the lungs due to damage caused by smoking.

Your life: Dizzying heights left me feeling peaky

Non-covered conditions include angina pectoris, dyspnea without cor pulmonale or evidence of hypoxemia, severe peripheral vascular disease resulting in desaturation in the extremities and terminal illness that does not affect the lungs.

Revisiting qualifications for home oxygen

In severe cases, the patient may develop cor pulmonale, an enlargement and strain of the right side of the heart caused by chronic lung disease.

Black Lung Disease ? Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

She was dyspneic at rest, had cor pulmonale, was losing weight, dependent on oxygen supplementation, had seen her physician twice in recent months for exacerbations of chronic bronchitis and had one hospital admission for respiratory failure.

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In addition to a thrombotic arteriopathy, all patients with PE had chronic cor pulmonale and hypertensive changes of small pulmonary arteries.

Pulmonary thrombotic arteriopathy in patients with sickle cell disease

20 Cor pulmonale develops in some children because of vasoconstriction in pulmonary blood vessels as a result of frequent episodes of hypoxemia during recurrent apnea.

Tonsil and adenoid surgery for upper airway obstruction in children

A chronic heart condition, cor pulmonale is an enlargement of the right ventricle that results from various lung diseases, except those that primarily affect the left side of the heart, or congenital heart disease.

Cor Pulmonale-Diseases

He also points out that cor pulmonale was recognized as a feature of Pickwickian syndrome before it became known that the underlying pathology of cor pulmonale is rooted in a sleep disorder.

2005 publications place sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease into ...