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Here's an article from Health Day News:

U.S. Hospital Admissions Rise for Pulmonary Heart Disease

Between 1997 and 2005, U.S. hospital admissions for chronic pulmonary heart disease rose from 301,400 to 456,500, an increase of more than 50 percent, according to the latest News and Numbers from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Pulmonary heart disease is a serious, often fatal, lung blood vessel disorder that causes symptoms such as shortness of breath, chest pain, fatigue, dizziness and fainting. Most people with pulmonary heart disease have an underlying heart or lung disorder.

The AHRQ found that:

About 20,000 hospital patients died from chronic pulmonary heart disease in 2005 -- a death rate of 4.4 percent. That's two times higher than the overall death rate for all hospital patients.
Women accounted for 60 percent of hospital stays for pulmonary heart disease.
In 2005, hospitalizations for pulmonary heart disease cost $5.6 billion. Each hospital stay for a patient with pulmonary heart disease cost an average of $12,400, compared to an average of $8,100 for all hospital stays.

I can't tell whether they mean heart failure included in there or not. In any event, it's good to see someone noticing that there are other heart diseases besides the vascular ones that all the attention and money are usually focussed on.