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Acute and Chronic Causes of Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis
Pulmonary/Chest Wall:
 • Acute: Trauma, COPD exacerbation, Asthma
Causes of Dyspnea ... - Differential ... /Chest Wall: • ... : Tumor, Vocal cord ... Abdominal wall hernia
Causes of Chronic Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Pericardial
 • Effusion
 • Cardiac Tamponade*
 • Constriction
Myocardial
 •
Causes of Chronic ... Dyspnea - Differential ... Thickening/Masses Chest ... #Dyspnea #SOB # ... Differential #Diagnosis
Kussmaul Breathing in Lactic Acidosis
Acute non-cardiopulmonary dyspnoea. 70 ys, DM, vomiting and URQ abdominal pain since
Not every dyspnoea ... originates in the chest ... #Respirations #Clinical ... #Video #PhysicalExam ... #Pulmonary #Respiratory
Abnormalities in Rate and Rhythm of Breathing 
Normal 
The respiratory rate is about 14—20 per min
disease, pleuritic chest ... common cause of dyspnea ... include asthma, chronic ... #Pulmonary #Abnormalities ... Abnormal #Diagnosis #PhysicalExam
Lung Chest Wall Herniation after Thoracotomy on Physical Exam

Lung is seen herniating through the chest wall
Lung Chest Wall ... #Thoracotomy #clinical ... #video #PhysicalExam ... #pulmonary #breathing ... #hernia
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
• Hypoxia • Dyspnea ... Loss of weight • Chest ... Physical stigmata of cor ... high-resolution chest ... #differential #
Lung Hernia (Sibson Hernia) on physical exam due to a traumatic chest injury.

Sibson Hernia is a
to a traumatic chest ... surgery or certain pulmonary ... #clinical #video ... thoracic #trauma #physicalexam ... #respiratory #breathing
Sarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology
1) High incidence in Scandinavian countries (11-24 cases per 100,000 individuals
renal failure Clinical ... Pulmonary: dyspnea ... , cough, chest pain ... 16-32%): lupus pernio ... , arrhythmias, dyspnoea
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
pneumonia • Chronic ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... pain, hemoptysis, dyspnea ... Lung #Abscess #pulmonary ... #differential #
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
encounters due to NTM: Chronic ... Disease: Clinical ... Weakness, • Dyspnea ... , • Chest discomfort ... NTM #Infections #differential