Symptom
Wheezing
A continuous, predominantly expiratory, high-pitched musical breath sound caused by airflow limitation through narrowed or obstructed intrathoracic airways, typically heard on auscultation in obstructive airway disorders such as asthma, COPD, laryngitis, bronchitis, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, anaphylaxis, inhaled irritants (smoke, dust, toxic fumes), heart failure, GERD, foreign object, and vocal cord dysfunction.
Referencing diagnoses
- Aortic regurgitation
- Asthma
- Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation
- COPD
- Esophageal hiatal hernia
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Heart failure
- Hypocalcemia
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Inhalation injury
- Laryngopharyngeal reflux disease
- Lung cancer
- Myocardial infarction
- Pleuritis
- Pneumonia
- Pulmonary embolism
- Respiratory acidosis
- Respiratory alkalosis
- Small bowel cancer
- Subglottic stenosis
- Wegener's granulomatosis
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