Avoiding misdiagnosis in patients with dyspnea and wheezing: a case report illustrating the clinical implications of fixation error

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• 作者：Fabiano Di Marco ; Giuseppe Francesco Sferrazza Papa…
• 关键词：Asthma ; Dyspnea ; Fluticasone/formoterol ; Tracheal stenosis ; Pulmonary function tests
• 刊名：Clinical and Molecular Allergy
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1057KB
• 刊物主题：Allergology; Immunology; Molecular Medicine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1476-7961
• 卷排序：15

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BackgroundBronchial asthma is a heterogeneous respiratory condition which can be mimicked by a wide range of pathologies including upper airways stenosis. The accurate diagnosis of asthma, as with other conditions, may be influenced by fixation errors, which are common in medicine and occur when a physician concentrates on only one element of a clinical case without considering other relevant aspects. Here we report a challenging case characterized by the contemporaneous presence of a common disease, asthma, together with a rare respiratory disease, idiopathic tracheal stenosis.