| Cardiac asthma | |
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| Classification and external resources | |
| ICD-10 | I50.1 |
| ICD-9 | 428.1 |
| MeSH | D004418 |
Cardiac asthma is a medical symptom, of wheezing, coughing or shortness of breath due to congestive heart failure. It is known as cardiac asthma because the symptoms may mimic asthma.
Depending on the severity of the symptoms, it can be classified as a medical emergency as it is a symptom of heart failure leading to the build up of fluids in the lungs-pulmonary edema and in and around your airways. Asthma is very different in this sense as true asthma is caused by the inflammation and eventual narrowing down of airways. This is what causes the breathing difficulties that is characteristic to asthma. Asthma has nothing to do with fluid in the lungs or heart disease or even heart failure which is so associated with Cardiac Asthma.
The Distinction between true asthma and cardiac asthma is especially important because using treatments for true asthma including inhalers( in the assumption that the child actually has Asthma) may actually worsen cardiac asthma and cause severe heart rhythmic issues.
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