Cardiac Cirrhosis

Authors

Mary Rodriguez Ziccardi, Rochester Regional Health
Venkata Satish Pendela, Rochester Regional HealthFollow
Mayank Singhal, Cape Fear Valley, Methodist University

Department

Cardiology

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Title

StatPearls [Internet]

Abstract

Cardiac cirrhosis is a term used to include the spectrum of hepatic disorders that occur secondary to hepatic congestion due to cardiac dysfunction, especially the right heart chambers. Cardiac cirrhosis can be caused by any right-sided pathology that can generate right heart failure that causes an increase in venous congestion and increase of pressure in the hepatic sinusoids. Common causes of cardiac abnormalities that can cause cardiac cirrhosis are (1) valvular disease, (2) severe pulmonary hypertension, (3) cor pulmonale, (4) biventricular heart failure, (5) pericardial diseases, (6) cardiac tamponade, and (7) constrictive pericarditis.

Publication Date

5-4-2021

Publisher

StatPearls Publishing

PubMed ID

28613707

Recommended Citation

Rodriguez Ziccardi, M., Pendela, V. S., & Singhal, M. (2021). Cardiac Cirrhosis. StatPearls [Internet] Retrieved from https://scholar.rochesterregional.org/rrhpubs/240