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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:

Overview

[Disease name] must be differentiated from other diseases that cause [clinical feature 1], [clinical feature 2], and [clinical feature 3], such as [differential dx1], [differential dx2], and [differential dx3].

OR

[Disease name] must be differentiated from [[differential dx1], [differential dx2], and [differential dx3].

Differentiating X from other Diseases

• [Disease name] must be differentiated from other diseases that cause [clinical feature 1], [clinical feature 2], and [clinical feature 3], such as [differential dx1], [differential dx2], and [differential dx3].
• [Disease name] must be differentiated from [[differential dx1], [differential dx2], and [differential dx3].

• As [disease name] manifests in a variety of clinical forms, differentiation must be established in accordance with the particular subtype. [Subtype name 1] must be differentiated from other diseases that cause [clinical feature 1], such as [differential dx1] and [differential dx2]. In contrast, [subtype name 2] must be differentiated from other diseases that cause [clinical feature 2], such as [differential dx3] and [differential dx4].

Differentiating Respiratory Failure from other Diseases

3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate Abrin Acetylsalicylic acid Achondrogenesis Acute lung syndrome Acute motor axonal neuropathy Acute Porphyria Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Alcohol Aldicarb Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency Alpha-amanitin Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Anaphylaxis Angioedema Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Asbestosis Aspiration Atelectasis Atelosteogenesis, type II Atrial septal defect (ostium primum) Babesiosis Barium nitrate Becker's muscular dystrophy Bland-White-Garland Syndrome Blood transfusion Botulism Bronchial asthma Bronchiectasis Bronchiolitis Bronchiolitis obliterans Bronchogenic carcinoma Bronchopulmonary dysplasia Bufotenin Bungarotoxin Carbon monoxide poisoning Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency Cholesterol Emboli Syndrome Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Clitocybe dealbata Coal worker pneumoconiosis Cocaine Colchicine Cone snail Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome Congenital diaphragmatic hernia Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever Cystic adenomatoid malformation of lung Cystic fibrosis Cytisine Devic's disease Dicofol Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy Ebstein anomaly Eisenmenger syndrome Elecrolyte abnormalities Emphysema Eosinophilic pneumonia EVAR Fallot tetralogy Familial dysautonomia Fat embolism Fetal circulation, persistent Fibrosing alveolitis Flail chest Foreign body Furfural Glotto Emphysema Glycogen storage disease type I Guillain-Barre syndrome

Hamman-Rich Syndrome Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Heartworm Hemosiderosis Hepatic failure Hepatopulmonary syndrome Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia Human ehrlichiosis Infant respiratory distress syndrome Interstitial fibrosis Kyphoscoliosis Laryngo-/Bronchospasm Legionella pneumophila Malignant hyperpyrexia Malignant Mesothelioma Marine toxins Meningitis Metabolic Acidosis Multiple chemical sensitivity Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome Muscarine Myasthenia Gravis Near-drowning Omphalitis Osteogenesis imperfecta Pleural effusion Pneumonia Pneumothorax Polio Polyrediculitis Post-polio syndrome Potter syndrome Pre-eclampsia Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis Pulmonary arterio-venous malformation Pulmonary edema Pulmonary embolism Pulmonary hypertension Pulmonary oedema Pulmonary valve stenosis Rabies Respiratory distress syndrome (neonatal) Restrictive Lung Disease Reye's syndrome Satoyoshi syndrome Saxitoxin Sepsis Smoke inhalation Snakebites (Patient information) Status asthmaticus Sulphur dioxide Tetanus Tetracycline antibiotics Tetrodotoxin Thanatophoric dysplasia Tick paralysis Transposition of great arteries Tricuspid valve stenosis Ventricular septal defect Vinyl chloride Zellweger syndrome

Preferred Table

Diseases	History and Symptoms				Physical Examination				Laboratory Findings				Other Findings
	Finding 1	Finding 2	Finding 3	Finding 4	Physical Finding 1	Physical Finding 2	Physical Finding 3	Physical Finding 4	Lab Test 1	Lab Test 2	Lab Test 3	Lab Test 4
Differential Diagnosis 1			+
Differential Diagnosis 2	↑			-
Differential Diagnosis 3		↓
Differential Diagnosis 4
Differential Diagnosis 5

Use if the above table can not be made

Differential Diagnosis	Similar Features	Differentiating Features
Differential 1	On [physical exam; history; diagnostic test; imaging], [Differential 1] {has; demonstrates} [feature 1], [feature 2], [feature 3] also observed in [disease name].	On [physical exam; history; diagnostic test; imaging], [Differential 1] {has; demonstrates} [feature 1], [feature 2], [feature 3] that distinguish it from [disease name].
Differential 2	On [physical exam; history; diagnostic test; imaging], [Differential 1] {has; demonstrates} [feature 1], [feature 2], [feature 3] also observed in [disease name].	On [physical exam; history; diagnostic test; imaging], [Differential 1] {has; demonstrates} [feature 1], [feature 2], [feature 3] that distinguish it from [disease name].
Differential 3	On [physical exam; history; diagnostic test; imaging], [Differential 1] {has; demonstrates} [feature 1], [feature 2], [feature 3] also observed in [disease name].	On [physical exam; history; diagnostic test; imaging], [Differential 1] {has; demonstrates} [feature 1], [feature 2], [feature 3] that distinguish it from [disease name].
Differential 4	On [physical exam; history; diagnostic test; imaging], [Differential 1] {has; demonstrates} [feature 1], [feature 2], [feature 3] also observed in [disease name].	On [physical exam; history; diagnostic test; imaging], [Differential 1] {has; demonstrates} [feature 1], [feature 2], [feature 3] that distinguish it from [disease name].
Differential 5	On [physical exam; history; diagnostic test; imaging], [Differential 1] {has; demonstrates} [feature 1], [feature 2], [feature 3] also observed in [disease name].	On [physical exam; history; diagnostic test; imaging], [Differential 1] {has; demonstrates} [feature 1], [feature 2], [feature 3] that distinguish it from [disease name].