Right heart failure can cause left heart failure?

Right heart failure may cause left heart failure.

If left untreated for a long time, right heart failure may cause heart failure, leading to left heart failure. Right heart failure due to right heart insufficiency, will lead to a large amount of blood can not enter the right heart, deposited in the body tissue, resulting in body edema, loss of appetite, nausea and other symptoms, at this time will cause left heart compensation increase, to a certain extent, leading to left heart decompensation, left heart failure, so that patients appear dyspnea, cough, pink foam sputum and other symptoms, as the disease progresses, may lead to global failure.