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Phoenix [80]
3 years ago
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A 21-year-old college senior presents to your clinic, complaining of shortness of breath and a nonproductive nocturnal cough. Sh

e states she used to feel this way only with extreme exercise, but lately she has felt this way continuously. She denies any other upper respiratory symptoms, chest pain, gastrointestinal symptoms, or urinary tract symptoms. Her past medical history is significant only for seasonal allergies, for which she takes a nasal steroid spray but is otherwise on no other medications. She has had no surgeries. Her mother has allergies and eczema and her father has high blood pressure. She is an only child. She denies smoking and illegal drug use but drinks three to four alcoholic beverages per weekend. She is a junior in finance at a local university and she has recently started a job as a bartender in town. On examination she is in no acute distress and her temperature is 98.6. Her blood pressure is 120/80, her pulse is 80, and her respirations are 20. Her head, eyes, ears, nose, and throat examinations are essentially normal. Inspection of her anterior and posterior chest shows no abnormalities. On auscultation of her chest, there is decreased air movement and a high-pitched whistling on expiration in all lobes. Percussion reveals resonant lungs.
Which disorder of the thorax or lung does this best describe?
A) Spontaneous pneumothorax
B) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
C) Asthma
D) Pneumonia
Health
2 answers:
Lyrx [107]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

Explanation:

increasing breathlessness – this may only happen when exercising at first, and you may sometimes wake up at night feeling breathless.

a persistent chesty cough with phlegm that does not go away.

frequent chest infections.

persistent wheezing.

these are the symptoms of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

hope it helps

Nikolay [14]3 years ago
6 0
B. (COPD) hope this helps
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