lung disease
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History
- social history
- smoking
- occupational exposure
- exposure to infected persons or animals
- hobbies
- pets
- family history
- review of systems
- malignancies
- systemic (non-pulmonary disease)
- immune status
- history of trauma
- previous laboratory studies
Physical examination
- inspection a respiratory rate
- hoarseness of voice
- respiratory rhythm
- accessory muscle use occurs with FEV1 < 30% of normal
- postural dyspnea
- paradoxical movement of abdomen & diaphragm
- cough/sputum
- wheezes are often audible without stethoscope
- pursed lip breathing in patients with COPD
- cyanosis
- central
- peripheral
- conjunctival suffusion (hypercarbia)
- clubbing
- kyphoscoliosis
- trachea position: midline vs deviated
- signs/symptoms of superior vena cava syndrome
- asterixis
- signs of cor pulmonale
- palpation
- lymphadenopathy
- tibial tenderness (hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy)
- expiratory to inspiratory chest excursion & symmetry
- chest wall tenderness
- tracheal deviation or tenderness
- tactile (vocal fremitus)
- subcutaneous emphysema
- succussion splash (effusion, air-fluid level in thorax)
- percussion
- auscultation
- bronchial breath sounds
- expiratory slowing
- crackles
- wheezes
- pleural rub
- mediastinal crunch
- heart sounds
More general terms
More specific terms
- acute sickle cell chest syndrome; chest crisis; pulmonary sickle crisis
- allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; allergic bronchopulmonary mycosis (ABPA)
- atelectasis
- bronchial disease
- bronchial fistula
- broncholithiasis
- bronchopulmonary dysplasia
- bullous lung disease
- cardiopulmonary disease
- chronic lung disease
- hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
- hemoptysis
- hepatopulmonary syndrome
- hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (Bamberger-Marie syndrome)
- interstitial lung disease; diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLS, ILD)
- lung injury
- lung neoplasm
- lymphangioleiomyomatosis
- lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis
- obstructive lung disease
- occupational lung disease
- paragonimiasis
- pleural disorder
- pleural fistula
- pneumonia (PNA)
- pneumonitis
- pulmonary alveolar phospholipoproteinosis; alveolar proteinosis; pulmonary surfactant metabolism dysfunction; inborn error of pulmonary surfactant metabolism
- pulmonary alveolitis
- pulmonary aspiration; foreign body aspiration
- pulmonary bulla
- pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis
- pulmonary contusion
- pulmonary edema (pulmonary congestion, PE)
- pulmonary esosinophilia
- pulmonary hemorrhage
- pulmonary hypoplasia
- pulmonary infarction
- pulmonary infection
- pulmonary nodule
- pulmonary siderosis
- pulmonary vascular disease
- pulmonary-renal syndrome
- respiratory failure
- restrictive lung disease
- rheumatoid lung disease
- right middle lobe syndrome
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- unilateral hyperlucent lung syndrome (Swyer-James or Macleod syndrome)
- Weil's syndrome
- yellow nail syndrome (lymphedema & yellow nails)
Additional terms
- age-associated changes in pulmonary function
- hospice guidelines for determining prognosis, pulmonary disease
- lung
- pulmonary
- pulmonary function test (PFT)
References
- ↑ Mayo Internal Medicine Board Review, 1998-99, Prakash UBS (ed) Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998, pg 722
- ↑ Akgun KM, Crothers K, Pisani M. Epidemiology and management of common pulmonary diseases in older persons. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2012 Mar;67(3):276-91 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22337938