THE PREPONDERANCE OF RIGHT HYDROTHORAX IN CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
Authors: E M McPEAK, S A LEVINE
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1946)

Article1 December 1946THE PREPONDERANCE OF RIGHT HYDROTHORAX IN CONGESTIVE HEART FAILUREEDGAR M. MCPEAK, M.D., F.A.C.P., SAMUEL A. LEVINE, M.D., F.A.C.P.EDGAR M. MCPEAK, M.D., F.A.C.P., SAMUEL A. LEVINE, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-25-6-916 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptAlthough there has been a strong clinical impression that right hydrothorax is more common than left hydrothorax when gross congestive heart failure occurs, recently this point of view has been questioned. In a survey by Bedford and Lovibond,1these authors were led to the conclusion that although right hydrothorax was more common in cases showing mitral stenosis, combined right and left heart failure and auricular fibrillation, the occurrence of left hydrothorax was favored by hypertension, left heart failure and normal rhythm. 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