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Pulmonary hypertension
Category: Illness or disabilities
Type
Involuntary
Introduction and description
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an increase in blood pressure in the pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, or pulmonary capillaries, together known as the lung vasculature.
Pulmonary arterial hypertension results in the vasoconstriction or tightening of blood vessels connected to and within the lungs. This makes it harder for the heart to pump blood through the lungs, much as it is harder to make water flow through a narrow pipe as opposed to a wide one. Over time, the affected blood vessels become both stiffer and thicker, in a process known as fibrosis. This further increases the blood pressure within the lungs and impairs their blood flow. In addition, the increased workload of the heart causes hypertrophy of the right ventricle, making the heart less able to pump blood through the lungs, ultimately causing right heart failure (a condition known as cor pulmonale). As the blood flowing through the lungs decreases, the left side of the heart receives less blood. This blood may also carry less oxygen than normal. Therefore it becomes harder and harder for the left side of the heart to pump to supply sufficient oxygen to the rest of the body, especially during physical activity.
Normal pulmonary arterial pressure in a person living at sea level has a mean value of 12–16 mm Hg (1600–2100 Pa). Pulmonary hypertension is present when mean pulmonary artery pressure exceeds 25 mm Hg (3300 Pa) at rest or 30 mm Hg (4000 Pa) with exercise.
In pulmonary venous hypertension there is no obstruction to blood flow in the lungs. Instead, the left heart fails to pump blood efficiently, leading to pooling of blood in the lungs. This causes pulmonary edema and pleural effusions. Pulmonary venous hypertension is exceedingly common, since it occurs in most patients symptomatic with congestive heart failure. Pulmonary venous hypertension is thus synonymous with congestive heart failure.
Symptoms
Because symptoms may develop very gradually, patients may delay seeing a physician for years. Common symptoms are shortness of breath, fatigue, dizziness, a non-productive cough, angina pectoris, fainting or syncope, peripheral edema (swelling around the ankles and feet), and rarely hemoptysis (coughing up blood). Pulmonary venous hypertension typically presents with shortness of breath while lying flat or sleeping, while pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) typically does not.
Causes
Pulmonary hypertension can be caused by both physical causes and emotional causes.
Physical causes
The main causes are as follows, all these are explored in the section Blood circulatory system disease, itself:
- Toxins – such as pesticides and insecticides or weed killers
- Heavy metals - including both dental amalgam fillings and metal implants and including metals such as aluminium, mercury, cadmium, and lead
- Hurt - physical hurt [bumps bangs, crashes, cuts, etc], as well as surgery
- Bacteria
- Viruses
- Hypoxia - shortage of the air we need to breathe because of smoke, pollution etc
- Fungal infection
- Parasites
- Radiation/environmental stressors - including heat, cold, and electromagnetic radiation both domestic and industrial . There are actually a vast number of stressors here mechanical as well as electrical all of which stimulate the body via resonance - shake it up!
- Nutritional deprivation - shortage of food, excess food, or inbalance of food, minerals and vitamins
In addition to the causes listed under the more generic following are additional causes:
- Drug use - A history of exposure to drugs such as cocaine or methamphetamine
- Pharmaceuticals – for example Diet pills such as Fen-Phen “produced an annual incidence of 25-50 per million per year”. This LINK takes you to the eHealthme website where the pharmaceuticals implicated in causing Pulmonary hypertension are listed. The List is derived fromAdverse Drug reports submitted to the FDA and SEDA
Emotional causes - extreme emotion
There is good evidence that extreme emotion can also cause pulmonary hypertension - rage, fear, grief and so on.
Illustrations Of The Influence Of The Mind Upon The Body In Health And Disease, Designed To Elucidate The Action Of The Imagination - Daniel Hack Tuke, M.D., M.R.C.P.,
Rupture of Pulmonary Vessels.
— Descuret records the case of a woman, set. 64, subject to violent fits of passion, in one of which "her little eyes sparkled, her face was injected, her large jugulars were distended, and a violent fit of coughing brought up in my presence bloody expectoration of a bright colour."
Dr. Sweetser cites from Broussais "the case of a lady, who on feeling a living frog fall into her bosom from the claws of a bird of prey while she was sitting on the grass, was instantly seized with such a profuse bleeding from the lungs that she survived but a few minutes" (Mental Hygiene. By Dr. Sweetser. 1844, p. 28).
where positive emotion is involved it is usually a form of relief preceeded by negative emotion, in other words, the actual buildup is still caused by negative emotion, but the violent change occasioned by relief is the straw that finally 'breaks the camel's back'. The following example relates to a stroke - thus not pulmonary hypertension, but a stroke is still a rupture of a blood vessel as such the example is pertinent to this section
In the "Lancet" of Nov. 16, 1867, occurs a good example of the influence of Joy succeeding Anxiety in inducing death, recorded by the registrar of Preston, Lancashire. The subject was a female, aged 43, the wife of an overlooker. It appears that the daughter of the deceased was travelling by railway when a collision occurred, which caused injury to a large number of passengers. Alarming reports concerning the accident had reached the mother as she was waiting at the station for her daughter, who soon arrived unhurt. The transport of joy, supervening on a state of mental anxiety, was more than her physical organization could bear. The mother after clasping her child in her arms, fell down in a fit, and expired twelve hours afterwards. In the medical certificate the case was returned as "apoplexy." It recalls the observation of Haller that "excessive and sudden joy often kills by increasing the motion of the blood, and exciting a true apoplexy."
Side effect of other illnesses
Pulmonary hypertension can also be a side effect of other illnesses, for example, in scleroderma the incidence has been estimated to be 6 to 60% of all patients, in rheumatoid arthritis up to 21%, in systemic lupus erythematosus 4 to 14%, in portal hypertension between 2 to 5%, in HIV about 0.5%, and in sickle cell disease ranging from 20 to 40%. Up to 4% of people who suffer a pulmonary embolism go on to develop chronic thromboembolic disease including pulmonary hypertension. Note that the majority of these are caused by toxins, bacteria, viruses, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals and fungi, so the cause is actually common, you are just seeing multiple manifestations of the same ultimate cause.
How it works
Ultimately the person obtains spiritual experiences via hypoxia. They may die from heart failure.
Related observations
Healing observations
- Hydroxysafflor yellow A (HSYA) from flowers of Carthamus tinctorius L. and its vasodilatation effects on pulmonary artery 020856
- The Healing Power of Sleep 026790
Hallucination
- Fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine 005761
- Letairis 019253
- Pulmonary embolism produces NDE and sense of mission 013033
- Tracleer and Bosentan 020287
- Ventavis 020358
Out of time
- Fields and meadows 002475
- Pulmonary embolism produces NDE and sense of mission 013033
- Pulmonary hypertension 001154