can congestive heart failure be mistaken for COPD ?

[ahardcore06]

can congestive heart failure be mistaken for COPD ?

[TonyDCM]

It can be in the very beginning stages without tests. When a person is suspected of having either condition, tests will be run to rule out either condition. Congestive heart failure has classical symptoms of swelling of ankles, dizziness, and fainting. A simple test to rule out COPD is an Echocardiogram.

[Jon and Ari P]

Only by an idiot. the only thing they have in common is that the patient's of both tend to have shortness of breath. one is caused by a heart that is not pumping enough and the other by lungs destroyed by smoking (or a1 alpha anatrypsin deficiency).