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Trouble breathing can come on suddenly or last for weeks or longer. Most cases are due to heart or lung conditions, but there are many other causes.
A 33-year-old woman presented to an outside facility with increasing shortness of breath, orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea and increasing lower limb ...
Avoid exposure to pollutants. As much as possible, avoid breathing allergens and environmental toxins, such as chemical fumes or secondhand smoke. Avoid ...
These tiny collections form red, swollen lumps called granulomas. Granulomas most commonly occur in the lungs and the lymph nodes of the chest. They also can ...
The purpose of this study is to determine the rate and severity of dyspnea experienced by sleep apnea patients in an unselected population and evaluate the ...
It's also unclear if the symptoms of positional dyspnea (orthopnea) are associated with interstitial edema or changes in blood volume compartments. There's ...
Acute-onset dyspnea that awakens patients from sleep with orthopnea from phrenic nerve involvement. A winged scapula, reported in 30% to 70% of attacks ...
And also a third group is a combination of emphysema and chronic bronchitis. So those patients with advanced emphysema that have these holes in the lungs, those ...
... orthopnea, or edema) and 1 sign (rales on auscultation, peripheral edema, ascites, pulmonary vascular congestion on chest radiography); Prior clinical ...
Learn about treatment, including bronchoscopy lung volume reduction, for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency.
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