Learn about idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options for managing this lung disease.

As the disease worsens, cardinal symptoms include cough with or without phlegm and breathlessness, especially with exertion. Orthopnea can develop in people with advanced COPD. While the exact ...

The two features on which most authors agree are decreased exercise tolerance and dyspnea on exertion; other frequent though not universal complaints include palpitation, precordial pain ...

First admission. A fifty-three-year-old dishwasher was admitted to the hospital because of exertional dyspnea. The patient had been well until six years before admission, when he noted the gradual ...

The classic triad of symptoms of aortic stenosis occur on exertion and include dyspnea, syncope, and angina. The development of aortic stenosis takes many years and is initially asymptomatic.

This transmission of pressures results in exertional dyspnea. Fatigue and inability to exercise are also common complaints. Signs of left heart failure such as paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea and ...

Regardless of time of presentation, almost all patients with PAH describe exertional dyspnea at variable exercise intensities relative to a given patient's aerobic capacity. Patients early in the ...

Axial CT lung images without contrast agent of a 55-year-old man with persistent exertional dyspnea and chronic fatigue 399 days after COVID-19: 1.0mm image obtained with energy-integrating ...