Next, Yu Zhiming communicated his findings with Dr. Xiong Jing and the patients.

"Heart failure caused by pulmonary hypertension?"

The patient was very confused and said breathlessly: "Since the heart transplant, I have stopped working and focused on recuperating my body."

"In May, Dr. Xiong, I had a heart and physical examination, and you said I was in great health, just like a young man."

"Do you remember?"

Xiong Jing nodded and said: "Of course I remember."

"So, I was also surprised that you came to me this time with such a bad heart condition."

"It's only been half a year."

The patient said with a bitter look on his face: "In the past six months, I didn't do anything else. I just looked at the scenery in Dali, took a walk, and took care of my body as usual."

Dali?!

Pulmonary hypertension!

Yu Zhiming asked, "Is it the Dali Plateau area?"

Hearing this, Xiong Jing quickly took out his phone and checked it, and then became speechless.

Most of the altitudes in Dali are two to three thousand meters.

For ordinary people, this height will not cause any discomfort, but for heart disease patients, it is a height that may cause altitude sickness.

If it is a short-term trip, there is no big problem, but the patient stayed in Dali for half a year.

Although the patient feels no discomfort, long-term chronic hypoxia causes the pulmonary arterioles to contract for a long time, which can cause hypertrophy of the smooth muscle of the pulmonary blood vessel media, vascular hardening, and form stable pulmonary hypertension.

Pulmonary hypertension increases the resistance to right ventricular ejection.

In addition, the increase in red blood cells caused by hypoxia increases blood viscosity and can also increase pulmonary circulation resistance.

This resulted in the patient's right ventricle having to do more work to satisfy the pulmonary circulation, causing slight changes in the structure of the right ventricle and symptoms of hypertrophy.

But this is not a long-term solution. The compensatory ability of the heart is limited. After exceeding a certain limit, the myocardial structure and function will lose the ability to compensate, which will cause heart failure.

What's more, the patient's heart was transplanted and is very delicate and needs careful care.

After listening to Dr. Xiong’s detailed explanation, the patient was dumbfounded.

"I deliberately chose a tourist destination with good scenery and suitable climate to recuperate my body, but in the end I harmed myself?"

"Doctor Xiong, can I still be saved in this situation?"

Xiong actually glanced at Yu Zhiming first, then looked at the patient, and said thoughtfully: "Heart transplantation, heart failure, and liver and kidney damage, how to use medicine is a troublesome matter."
Chapter completed!