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What medical term is used for a condition that results from pulmonary hypertension, creating chronic pressure overload in the right ventricle?
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What medical term is used for a condition that results from pulmonary hypertension, creating chronic pressure overload in the right ventricle?

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Right-sided congestive heart failure (CHF), and if due to a primary pulmonary problem Rt. CHF is termed Cor Pulmonale
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hypoxemia I think is the answer
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