Dyspnea differential diagnosis
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Differential Diagnosis
- Air hunger - the sensation of an urgent need to breathe, sensation that you cannot take in a full breath
- Tachypnea - breathing rapidly
- Bradypnea - breathing slowly
- Eupnea - normal unlabored breathing
- Orthopnea - dyspnea that occurs with lying flat
- Trepopnea - an abnormal awareness of one's own breathing that is seen in one lateral position but not in the other
- Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea - sudden, severe shortness of breath at night that awakens a person from sleep, often with coughing and wheezing.