A 68-year old patient, with a history of the chronic inflammatory disease of lungs since his childhood, presented to the hospital with coughing accompanied by scanty sputum (expectoration). The complications of pulmonary and a heart failure resulted in his death. What changes in heart have been found at post-mortem?

GENERALISED LYMPHADENOPATHY

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A	Right ventricular hypertrophy and dilatation
B	Left ventricular hypertrophy and dilatation
C	Ventricular hypertrophy
D	Ventricular dilatation

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Asthma is a chronic (long-term) condition that affects the airways in the lungs. The airways are tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. If you have asthma, the airways can become inflamed and narrowed at times. This makes it harder for air to flow out of your airways when you breathe out.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is chronic bronchitis? Chronic bronchitis is a type of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). COPD is a group of lung diseases that make it hard to breathe and get worse over time. The other main type of COPD is emphysema.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most common symptom of patients with chronic bronchitis is a cough. The history of a cough typical of chronic bronchitis is characterized to be present for most days in a month lasting for 3 months, with at least 2 such episodes occurring for 2 years in a row.

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GENERALISED LYMPHADENOPATHY