Symptom
Dyspnea
Subjective sensation of difficult, labored, or uncomfortable breathing.
Causes
Impaired respiratory function
Asthma
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Pneumonia
Pulmonary embolism
Pneumothorax
Cardiovascular disorders
Heart failure
Myocardial infarction
Arrhythmia
Systemic disorders
Anemia
Anxiety
Obesity
Allergy
Also known as: Air hunger, Breathlessness, Shortness of breath
Referencing diagnoses
- Abdominal compartment syndrome
- Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
- Acute interstitial pneumonia
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Amniotic fluid embolism
- Amyloidosis
- Anemia
- Aortic dissection
- Aortic regurgitation
- Aortic stenosis
- Arrhythmia
- Ascites
- Asthma
- Candidiasis
- Cardiac tamponade
- Cardiomyopathy
- Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- COPD
- COVID-19
- Cystic hygroma
- Dermatomyositis
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Endocarditis
- Epiglottitis
- Esophageal perforation
- Fat embolism syndrome
- Gastritis
- Gastrointestinal hemorrhage
- Graves disease
- Heart failure
- Hemothorax
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypervolemia
- Hypocalcemia
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Hypopituitarism
- Hypothyroidism
- Inhalation injury
- Laryngeal cancer
- Liver abscess
- Ludwigs angina
- Lung cancer
- Lyme disease
- Metabolic acidosis
- Mitral regurgitation
- Mitral stenosis
- Myocardial infarction
- Myocarditis
- Neuroblastoma
- Pericarditis
- Pleural effusion
- Pleural empyema
- Pleuritis
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Preeclampsia
- Pulmonary edema
- Pulmonary embolism
- Reinkes edema
- Respiratory acidosis
- Respiratory alkalosis
- Retropharyngeal abscess
- Rheumatic fever
- Ruptured aortic aneurysm
- Sarcoidosis
- Schistosomiasis
- Shock
- Sickle cell disease
- Small bowel cancer
- Subglottic stenosis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Systemic sclerosis
- Testicular cancer
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
- Thyroid cancer
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Tricuspid stenosis
- Tuberculosis
- Vocal cord immobility
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- Whipple's disease
- Wilms Tumor
Note: Lists existing diagnoses in Diagnotize only.