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<small>'''''Abbreviations:''''' '''ABG ('''[[arterial blood gas]]'''); ACE ('''[[Angiotensin-converting enzyme|angiotensin converting enzyme]]'''); BMI ('''[[body mass index]]'''); CBC ('''[[Complete blood counts|complete blood count]]'''); CSF ('''[[cerebrospinal fluid]]'''); CXR ('''[[chest X-ray]]'''); ECG ('''[[electrocardiogram]]'''); FEF ('''[[Spirometry|forced expiratory flow rate]]'''); FEV1 ('''[[forced expiratory volume]]'''); FVC ('''[[forced vital capacity]]'''); JVD ('''[[jugular vein distention]]''');''' '''MCV ('''[[mean corpuscular volume]]'''); Plt ('''[[platelet]]'''); RV ('''[[residual volume]]'''); SIADH ('''[[syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone]]'''); TSH ('''[[thyroid stimulating hormone]]'''); Vt ('''[[tidal volume]]''');''' '''WBC ('''[[White blood cells|white blood cell]]''');'''</small> | <small>'''''Abbreviations:''''' '''ABG ('''[[arterial blood gas]]'''); ACE ('''[[Angiotensin-converting enzyme|angiotensin converting enzyme]]'''); BMI ('''[[body mass index]]'''); CBC ('''[[Complete blood counts|complete blood count]]'''); CSF ('''[[cerebrospinal fluid]]'''); CXR ('''[[chest X-ray]]'''); ECG ('''[[electrocardiogram]]'''); FEF ('''[[Spirometry|forced expiratory flow rate]]'''); FEV1 ('''[[forced expiratory volume]]'''); FVC ('''[[forced vital capacity]]'''); JVD ('''[[jugular vein distention]]''');''' '''MCV ('''[[mean corpuscular volume]]'''); Plt ('''[[platelet]]'''); RV ('''[[residual volume]]'''); SIADH ('''[[syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone]]'''); TSH ('''[[thyroid stimulating hormone]]'''); Vt ('''[[tidal volume]]''');''' '''WBC ('''[[White blood cells|white blood cell]]''');'''</small> | ||
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==Medical Therapy== | ==Medical Therapy== |
Revision as of 17:52, 21 February 2018
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Eiman Ghaffarpasand, M.D. [2]
Overview
Pathophysiology
- Shortness of breath is consisted of eight different sensations:
- Rapid breathing
- Incomplete exhalation
- Shallow breathing
- Increased work or effort
- Feeling of suffocation
- Air hunger
- Chest tightness
- Heavy breathing
The common pathophysiology of shortness of breath (dyspnea)[1]
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Sense of respiratory effort | Chemoreceptors | Mechanoreceptors | Afferent mismatch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hypercapnia | Hypoxia | Upper airway receptors | Lung receptors | Chest wall receptors | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
• Simultaneous activation of the sensory cortex • Sense of effort is the predominant factor contributing to breathlessness when the respiratory-muscles are fatigued, weakened, or increasingly loaded | • Hypercapnia causes dyspnea independent of any reflex increase in respiratory-muscle activity • There are many clinical settings, such as asthma in which dyspnea develops under eucapnic or hypocapnic | • Hypoxia appears to have a direct effect on shortness of breath, independent of any change in ventilation conditions • Hypoxia plays a limited role in the dyspnea in patients with cardiopulmonary disease | • Upper airway and facial receptors modify the sensation of dyspnea • Receptors in the trigeminal nerve distribution influence the intensity of dyspnea | • Pulmonary stretch receptors (respond to lung inflation) • Irritant receptors in the epithelium (respond to a mechanical and chemical stimuli) • C fibers, unmyelinated nerve endings, located in the alveolar wall and blood vessels (respond to interstitial congestion) | • Receptors in the joints, tendons, and muscles of the chest wall (might influence the sensation of dyspnea) • Application of a physiotherapeutic vibration over the parasternal intercostal muscles reduced dyspnea | • Dyspnea arises from irrelevance between the force or tension generated by the respiratory muscles and the resulting change in muscle length and lung volume | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Causes
Life Threatening Causes
- Acute coronary syndromes
- Anaphylaxis
- Asthma
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Cardiac tamponade
- COPD exacerbation
- Foreign body aspiration
- Pulmonary embolism
- Sepsis
- Spontaneous pneumothorax
Common Causes
Causes Based on Pathophysiology
Obstructive Lung Diseases
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Cystic fibrosis
- Emphysema
- Hookworm disease
- Laryngeal edema due to allergies
- Tuberculosis
Diseases of Lung Parenchyma and Pleura
Contagious
- Anthrax through inhalation of Bacillus anthracis
- Pneumonia
Non-Contagious
- Fibrosing alveolitis
- Atelectasis
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- Interstitial lung disease
- Lung cancer
- Pleural effusion
- Pneumoconiosis
- Pneumothorax
- Non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema or acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Sarcoidosis
Pulmonary Vascular Diseases
- Acute or recurrent pulmonary emboli
- Pulmonary hypertension, primary or secondary
- Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease
- Superior vena cava syndrome
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
For the complete list of causes for shortness of breath or dyspnea click here
Differentiating Shortness of Breath or Dyspnea from other Diseases
- The underlying causes of dyspnea are classified as acute causes and chronic causes based on the disease course. Different causes of dyspnea include pulmonary (upper and lower airway), cardiovascular, central nervous system, toxic and metabolic, and systemic diseases.
Diseases that cause shortness of breath have to be differentiated upon the following table[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Abbreviations: ABG (arterial blood gas); ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme); BMI (body mass index); CBC (complete blood count); CSF (cerebrospinal fluid); CXR (chest X-ray); ECG (electrocardiogram); FEF (forced expiratory flow rate); FEV1 (forced expiratory volume); FVC (forced vital capacity); JVD (jugular vein distention); MCV (mean corpuscular volume); Plt (platelet); RV (residual volume); SIADH (syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone); TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone); Vt (tidal volume); WBC (white blood cell);
Medical Therapy
Related Chapters
- 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.
References
- ↑ Manning HL, Schwartzstein RM (December 1995). "Pathophysiology of dyspnea". N. Engl. J. Med. 333 (23): 1547–53. doi:10.1056/NEJM199512073332307. PMID 7477171.
- ↑ Gaggin, Hanna K.; Januzzi, James L. (2013). "Biomarkers and diagnostics in heart failure". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1832 (12): 2442–2450. doi:10.1016/j.bbadis.2012.12.014. ISSN 0925-4439.
- ↑ van Steijn JH, Sleijfer DT, van der Graaf WT, van der Sluis A, Nieboer P (2002). "How to diagnose cardiac tamponade". Neth J Med. 60 (8): 334–8. PMID 12481882.
- ↑ Martindale, Jennifer L.; Noble, Vicki E.; Liteplo, Andrew (2013). "Diagnosing pulmonary edema". European Journal of Emergency Medicine. 20 (5): 356–360. doi:10.1097/MEJ.0b013e32835c2b88. ISSN 0969-9546.
- ↑ Debiasi RL, Tyler KL (2004). "Molecular methods for diagnosis of viral encephalitis". Clin Microbiol Rev. 17 (4): 903–25, table of contents. doi:10.1128/CMR.17.4.903-925.2004. PMC 523566. PMID 15489354.
- ↑ Lane TR, Williamson WJ, Brostoff JM (2008). "Carbon monoxide poisoning in a patient with carbon dioxide retention: a therapeutic challenge". Cases J. 1 (1): 102. doi:10.1186/1757-1626-1-102. PMC 2533003. PMID 18710551.
- ↑ Cantin, Luce; Bankier, Alexander A.; Eisenberg, Ronald L. (2009). "Bronchiectasis". American Journal of Roentgenology. 193 (3): W158–W171. doi:10.2214/AJR.09.3053. ISSN 0361-803X.
- ↑ Baughman RP, Shipley RT, Loudon RG, Lower EE (1991). "Crackles in interstitial lung disease. Comparison of sarcoidosis and fibrosing alveolitis". Chest. 100 (1): 96–101. PMID 2060395.
- ↑ Holbro A, Lehmann T, Girsberger S, Stern M, Gambazzi F, Lardinois D, Heim D, Passweg JR, Tichelli A, Bubendorf L, Savic S, Hostettler K, Grendelmeier P, Halter JP, Tamm M (2013). "Lung histology predicts outcome of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation". Biol. Blood Marrow Transplant. 19 (6): 973–80. doi:10.1016/j.bbmt.2013.03.017. PMID 23562737.
- ↑ Ziegler, Bruna; Rovedder, Paula Maria Eidt; Dalcin, Paulo de Tarso Roth; Menna-Barreto, Sérgio Saldanha (2009). "Padrões ventilatórios na espirometria em pacientes adolescentes e adultos com fibrose cística". Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia. 35 (9): 854–859. doi:10.1590/S1806-37132009000900006. ISSN 1806-3713.
- ↑ Bal, Amanjit; Das, Ashim; Gupta, Dheeraj; Garg, Mandeep (2014). "Goodpasture's Syndrome and p-ANCA Associated Vasculitis in a Patient of Silicosiderosis: An Unusual Association". Case Reports in Pulmonology. 2014: 1–7. doi:10.1155/2014/398238. ISSN 2090-6846.
- ↑ Jung HO (2012). "Pericardial effusion and pericardiocentesis: role of echocardiography". Korean Circ J. 42 (11): 725–34. doi:10.4070/kcj.2012.42.11.725. PMC 3518705. PMID 23236323.
- ↑ Berliner D, Schneider N, Welte T, Bauersachs J (2016). "The Differential Diagnosis of Dyspnea". Dtsch Arztebl Int. 113 (49): 834–845. doi:10.3238/arztebl.2016.0834. PMC 5247680. PMID 28098068.