Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction clinical symptoms

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Associate Editor-In-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]; Keri Shafer, M.D. [3]

Clinical Symptoms

Symptoms develop in only approximately 25% of patients because progression of the disease is infrequent.

1. Chest pain
2. Syncope
3. Congestive heart failure
4. Dyspnea
5. Fatigue
6. Pedal edema
7. Cough
8. Cough with pink frothy sputum
9. Cardiomegaly

With a gradient of > 75 mm Hg symptoms include fatigability, DOE, angina, syncope and central cyanosis if there is a right-to-left shunt through a patent foramen ovale (PFO).