Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction clinical symptoms
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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).
- Chest pain
- Syncope
- Congestive heart failure
- Dyspnea
- Fatigue
- Fluid retention
- Cough
- Cough with pink frothy sputum
- Cardiomegaly