Symptoms of Lung conditions
Symptoms of Lung conditions
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- Lung cancer
- "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)" (2005)
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Lung abscess:
Signs and Symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Productive cough (purulent sputum), pleuritic chest pain, sweating, fever, chills, headache, malaise, weight loss
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Lung cancer:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Because early-stage lung cancer usually produces no symptoms, this disease is usually in an advanced state at diagnosis. These late-stage symptoms commonly lead to diagnosis:
❑Epidermoid and small cell carcinomas — smoker's cough, hoarseness, wheezing, dyspnea, hemoptysis, and chest pain
❑ Adenocarcinoma and large cell carcinoma — fever, weakness, weight loss, anorexia, and shoulder pain.
In addition to their obvious interference with respiratory function, lung tumors may also alter the production of hormones that regulate body function or homeostasis. Clinical conditions that result from such changes are known as hormonal paraneoplastic syndromes:
❑ Gynecomastia may result from large cell carcinoma.
❑ Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (bone and joint pain from cartilage erosion due to abnormal production of growth hormone) may result from large cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma.
❑ Cushing's and carcinoid syndromes may result from small cell carcinoma.
❑ Hypercalcemia may result from epidermoid tumors.
Metastatic signs and symptoms vary greatly, depending on the effect of tumors on intrathoracic and distant structures:
❑ bronchial obstruction: hemoptysis, atelectasis, pneumonitis, dyspnea
❑ cervical thoracic sympathetic nerve involvement: miosis, ptosis, exophthalmos, reduced sweating
❑ chest wall invasion: piercing chest pain, increasing dyspnea, severe shoulder pain, radiating down arm
❑ esophageal compression: dysphagia
❑ local lymphatic spread: cough, hemoptysis, stridor, pleural effusion
❑ pericardial involvement: pericardial effusion, tamponade, arrhythmias
❑ phrenic nerve involvement: dyspnea, shoulder pain, unilateral paralyzed diaphragm, with paradoxical motion
❑ recurrent nerve invasion: hoarseness, vocal cord paralysis
❑ vena caval obstruction: venous distention and edema of face, neck, chest, and back.
Distant metastasis may involve any part of the body, most commonly the central nervous system, liver, and bone.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Lung abscess:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Signs and symptoms of lung abscess include a cough that may produce bloody, purulent, or foul-smelling sputum; pleuritic chest pain; dyspnea; excessive sweating; chills; fever; headache; malaise; diaphoresis; and weight loss.
Complications include rupture into the pleural space, which results in empyema and, rarely, massive hemorrhage. A chronic lung abscess may cause localized bronchiectasis. Failure of an abscess to improve with antibiotic treatment suggests a possible underlying neoplasm or another cause of obstruction.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Lung cancer:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Because early-stage lung cancer usually produces no symptoms, this disease is typically in an advanced state at diagnosis. The following late-stage signs and symptoms commonly lead to a diagnosis:
❑ with epidermoid and small cell carcinomas: smoker’s cough, hoarseness, wheezing, dyspnea, hemoptysis, and chest pain
❑ with adenocarcinoma and large cell carcinoma: fever, weakness, weight loss, anorexia, and shoulder pain.
Besides their obvious interference with respiratory function, lung tumors may also alter the production of hormones that regulate body function or homeostasis. Clinical conditions that result from such changes are known as hormonal paraneoplastic syndromes:
❑ Gynecomastia may result from large cell carcinoma.
❑ Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (bone and joint pain from cartilage erosion due to abnormal production of growth hormone) may result from large cell carcinoma or adenocarcinoma.
❑ Cushing’s and carcinoid syndromes may result from small cell carcinoma.
❑ Hypercalcemia may result from epidermoid tumors.
Metastatic signs and symptoms vary greatly, depending on the effect of tumors on intrathoracic and distant structures:
❑ bronchial obstruction: hemoptysis, atelectasis, pneumonitis, and dyspnea
❑ recurrent nerve invasion: hoarseness and vocal cord paralysis
❑ chest wall invasion: piercing chest pain; increasing dyspnea; and severe shoulder pain, radiating down the arm
❑ local lymphatic spread: cough, hemoptysis, stridor, and pleural effusion
❑ phrenic nerve involvement: dyspnea; shoulder pain; and unilateral paralyzed diaphragm, with paradoxical motion
❑ esophageal compression: dysphagia
❑ vena caval obstruction: venous distention and edema of the face, neck, chest, or back
❑ pericardial involvement: pericardial effusion, tamponade, and arrhythmias
❑ cervical thoracic sympathetic nerve involvement: miosis, ptosis, exophthalmos, and reduced sweating.
Distant metastasis may involve any part of the body, most commonly the central nervous system, liver, and bone.
» READ BOOK EXCERPT ONLINE »
Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Article Excerpts About Symptoms of Lung conditions:
Each disease has its own symptoms. However, common symptoms include
difficulty breathing and shortness of breath, accompanied by the feeling
of not getting enough air. In addition, patients often complain of a
long-term cough that doesn't seem to go away, coughing up blood, and
experiencing pain when inhaling or exhaling. (Source: excerpt from Lung Disease: NWHIC)
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