Chest tightness

ASTHMA Periodic attacks of wheezing, chest tightness and breatlilessness resulting from constriction of the airways. 

Chemical Sensitization Evidence suggests that some people may develop health problems characterized by effects such as dizziness, eye and throat irritation, chest tightness, and nasal congestion that appear whenever they are exposed to certain chemicals. People may react to even trace amounts of chemicals to which they have become "sensitized."... 

No cough, wheeze, chest tightness, or shortness of breath during the day or night... 

The patient may complain of cough, chest pain, chest tightness, shortness of breath, or palpitations. 

Airway obstruction manifests itself as symptoms such as chest tightness, cough, and wheezing. Airway obstruction can be caused by multiple factors including airway smooth muscle constriction, airway edema, mucus hypersecretion, and airway remodeling. Airway smooth muscle tone is maintained by an interaction between sympathetic, parasympathetic, and non-adrenergic mechanisms. Acute bronchoconstriction usually... 

Symptoms may include dyspnea, cough, wheezing, and chest tightness. These symptoms may be continual, episodic, seasonal, or occur in association with known triggers. 

The patient usually presents with complaints of dyspnea, cough, shortness of breath, and chest tightness. 

Exercise is one of the most common precipitants of asthma symptoms, and exercise-induced asthma is commonly seen in children and adolescents. Exercise may be a precipitant in up to 90% of the population with asthma and maybe the first precipitant noticed in an asthma patient.18 Shortness of breath, wheezing, or chest tightness usually occur during or shortly after vigorous exercise and resolve within 30 to 60 minutes. 

Monitor symptoms such as wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, cough, and nocturnal awakenings due to asthma symptoms. Daytime symptoms should occur no... 

A 22-year-old female college student with no remarkable medical history notes shortness of breath when she takes her daily 5-mile run, which has worsened progressively over the past 3 weeks. On review of systems, it is discovered that she has experienced intermittent sensations of chest tightness over the past 2 months that she ascribed to pollen allergies, and 3 days prior to presentation she experienced an episode of hemoptysis. Her only medication is oral contraceptives, and she reports no known drug allergies. A chest x-ray is remarkable for a 10 x 12 cm mediastinal mass. 

Shortness of breath, chest tightness, wheezing, laryngeal spasm, mucosal and dermal irritation, and redness. 

Symptoms may include a sensation of pressure or burning over the sternum or near it, which often radiates to the left jaw, shoulder, and arm. Chest tightness and shortness of breath may also occur. The sensation usually lasts from 30 seconds to 30 minutes. 

Side effects of triptans include paresthesias, fatigue, dizziness, flushing, warm sensations, and somnolence. Minor injection site reactions are reported with SC use, and taste perversion and nasal discomfort may occur with intranasal administration. Up to 15% of patients report chest tightness, pressure, heaviness, or pain in the chest, neck, or throat. Although the mechanism of these symptoms is unknown, a cardiac source is unlikely in most patients. Isolated cases of myocardial infarction and coronary vasospasm with ischemia have been reported. 

The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) defines asthma as a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways in which many cells and cellular elements play a role. In susceptible individuals, inflammation causes recurrent episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing. These episodes are usually associated with airflow obstruction that is often reversible either spontaneously or with treatment. The inflammation also causes an increase in bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) to a variety of stimuli. 

Patients may be anxious in acute distress and complain of severe dyspnea, shortness of breath, chest tightness, or burning. They may be able to say... 

Patients experiencing a COPD exacerbation may have worsening dyspnea, increase in sputum volume, or increase in sputum purulence. Other common features of an exacerbation include chest tightness, increased need for bronchodilators, malaise, fatigue, and decreased exercise tolerance. 

Symptoms Symptoms include acute onset of fever, chest tightness, cough, dyspnea, nausea, and arthralgias which occur four to eight hours after inhalational exposure. Airway necrosis and pulmonary capillary leak resulting in pulmonary edema would likely occur within eighteen to twenty-four hours, followed by severe respiratory distress and death from hypoxemia in thirty-six to seventy-two hours. 

Symptoms Nerve agents exposures results in rhinorrhea, chest tightness, pinpoint pupils, shortness of breath, excessive salivation and sweating, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, involuntary defecation and urination, muscle twitching, confusion, seizures, flaccid paralysis, coma, respiratory failure, and death. 

Symptoms Soman exposure results in pupil constriction, blurred and dimmed vision, pain in the eyeballs chest tightness, difficulty in breathing sweating, salivation, increased bronchial secretions, bradycardia, hypotension, vomiting and diarrhea, bronchoconstric-tion, and urinary and fecal incontinence. 

No longer is asthma considered a condition with isolated, acute episodes of bronchospasm. Rather, asthma is now understood to be a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways—that is, inflammation makes the airways chronically sensitive. When these hyperrespon-sive airways are irritated, airflow is limited, and attacks of coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, and breathing difficulty occur. 

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