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 rare.
• 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).

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