Dyspnea, or shortness of breath, that occurs during exertion has several possible causes. The sensation is not typically a cause for concern, but a person should seek medical help in certain cases.

Panelists discuss how early detection barriers include nonspecific symptoms like progressive dyspnea that are often misattributed to more common conditions, leading to delayed diagnosis and the need ...

Furthermore, this measure of diaphragm weakness correlated with severity of dyspnea on exertion. It may be clinically relevant that investigators identified a possible underlying mechanism for ...

He had dyspnea on exertion (while moving and stocking boxes and when walking home from work), with baseline exertional dyspnea that occurred after ascending two to three flights of stairs.

Dyspnea, or shortness of breath, is the sensation of being unable to take a deep breath. A person may say that this feels like not being able to breathe all the way. There are numerous possible ...

Young adults have the highest smoking rates and increased frequency of cough and dyspnea on exertion compared with shortness of breath. Assessing respiratory health may be helpful to gaining a ...

L., a 68-year-old white female, was admitted through the emergency department with increasing dyspnea on exertion, which was unresponsive to aggressive oral diuretic therapy during the previous week.

of severe respiratory difficulty (dyspnea) arousing after minimal and previously well tolerated physical exertion (such as walking 100 meters on level ground) had an underlying pulmonary embolism.

“Inspiratory muscle weakness, together with decreased diaphragm cortical activation, might underlie dyspnea on exertion individuals with long COVID,” Michael Dreher, MD, head of the department ...

Lensing A.W.A, Prins MH et al. Prevalence of pulmonary embolism among patients with recent onset of dyspnea on exertion. A cross-sectional study. J Thromb Haemost. 2023;21: 68–75 https://doi.org ...