3) Heart Failure
The heart can’t pump blood as usual. Heart failure may be due to muscle diseases like myocardial infarction and cardiomyopathy. You may have one or more of the following:
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- Shortness of breath
- Syncope (temporary unconscious)
- Fatigue
- Hypotension
- Weak pulse
- Exertional cough
- Oliguria (urine volume less than 400 ml per day)
- Pleural effusion (accumulation of fluids in the pleura around the lungs)
- Pulmonary edema (accumulation of fluids in the lungs)
Also, you have the following:
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- Sweating without aggressive exercise
- Congested neck vein (destination of the jugular vein with blood)
- Edema of the lower limb
- Ascites (accumulation of fluids in your abdomen)
- Enlarged liver
- Git symptoms, like malabsorption and dyspepsia
