Many different conditions can lead to the feeling of dyspnea (shortness of breath). DiagnosisPro, an online medical expert system, listed 497 in October 2010.[1] The most common cardiovascular causes are acute myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure while common pulmonary causes include: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, pneumothorax, and pneumonia.[2]
Pulmonary
- Obstructive lung diseases
- Diseases of lung parenchyma and pleura
- Contagious
- Anthrax through inhalation of Bacillus anthracis
- Pneumonia
- COVID-19
- Non-contagious
- Contagious
- Pulmonary vascular diseases
- Acute or recurrent pulmonary emboli
- Pulmonary hypertension, primary or secondary
- Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease
- Superior vena cava syndrome
Other causes
- Obstruction of the airway
- Immobilization of the diaphragm
- Lesion of the phrenic nerve
- Polycystic liver disease
- Tumor in the diaphragm
- Restriction of the chest volume
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Broken ribs
- Kyphosis of the spine
- Obesity
- Costochondritis
- Pectus excavatum
- Scoliosis
- Disorders of the cardiovascular system
- Disorders of the blood and metabolism
- Disorders of the neurological system
- Ischemic stroke (when it occurs in the brain stem)
- Brain bleed (when it occurs in the brain stem)
- Disorders affecting breathing nerves and muscles
- Psychological conditions
- Medications
- Other
References
- ↑ "Differential Diagnosis For Dyspnea: Poisoning (Specific Agent)". Archived from the original on 2010-11-16. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
- ↑ Shiber JR, Santana J (May 2006). "Dyspnea". Med. Clin. North Am. 90 (3): 453–79. doi:10.1016/j.mcna.2005.11.006. PMID 16473100.
- ↑ Hwu WL, Suzuki Y, Yang X, et al. (February 2000). "Late-onset holocarboxylase synthetase deficiency with homologous R508W mutation". J. Formos. Med. Assoc. 99 (2): 174–7. PMID 10770035.
- ↑ Simpson, Kathleen Rice; Patricia A Creehan (2007). Perinatal Nursing (3rd ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-7817-6759-0.
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