Dyspnea

Patients also experience difficulty breathing in quiet situations, especially when lying flat, so they are often forced to take a sitting or semi-recumbent position to reduce the difficulty of breathing. This is a more severe manifestation of heart failure, and the presence of sitting breaths indicates that heart failure has obvious pulmonary congestion.

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