Symptom Finder - Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE
A 48-year-old white male comes to you with a history of heavy smoking and working in the coal mines for 25 years because of increasing shortness of breath and cough, which is no longer responding to bronchodilators and home oxygen. You diagnose COPD. What else could he have?
1. α-1 trypsin deficiency
2. Bronchial asthma
3. Pneumoconiosis
4. Congestive heart failure
5. Cystic fibrosis
6. Bronchogenic carcinoma
7. Pulmonary embolism
8. Pneumonia
9. Tuberculosis
10. Bronchiectasis
11. Collagen disease
12. Pulmonary fibrosis
A 48-year-old white male comes to you with a history of heavy smoking and working in the coal mines for 25 years because of increasing shortness of breath and cough, which is no longer responding to bronchodilators and home oxygen. You diagnose COPD. What else could he have?
1. α-1 trypsin deficiency
2. Bronchial asthma
3. Pneumoconiosis
4. Congestive heart failure
5. Cystic fibrosis
6. Bronchogenic carcinoma
7. Pulmonary embolism
8. Pneumonia
9. Tuberculosis
10. Bronchiectasis
11. Collagen disease
12. Pulmonary fibrosis
