Differential diagnosis
Common
- Acute bronchitis
- Acute exacerbation of asthma
- Asthma in adults
- Asthma in children
- Acute exacerbation of COPD
- Panic disorder
- Pneumonia
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Acute heart failure
- Chronic heart failure
- Aortic stenosis
- Atrial fibrillation
Infrequent
- Pulmonary embolism
- Acute coronary syndrome
- Lung cancer
- Angina pectoris
- Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Anaphylaxis
- Pneumothorax
- Myocarditis
- Acute pericarditis
- Bronchiectasis
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Pre-eclampsia
- Sarcoidosis
- Superior vena cava obstruction
- Mycoplasma pneumonia
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
- Mesothelioma
Rare
- Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
- Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
- Inhaled foreign body
- Extrinsic allergic alveolitis
- Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
- Thyroid cancer
- Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia
- Pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Dermatomyos