Case Reports
Vol. 1 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.4081/cdr.1.191

Differentiating Asthma from its mimics

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Received: 28 August 2011
Published: 26 October 2011
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asthma, bronchspasm, esophageal achalasia.

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Zeeshan Waheed
szwaheed@gmail.com
Department of Medicine, Armed Forces Hospital Southern Region, Khamis Mushayt, Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad Irfan
Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
Mohammad Salih
Section of Gastroenterology, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
All that wheezes is not asthma this adage accredited to Chevalier Jackson emphasizes the importance of differentiating asthma from its mimics, particularly if the patient is not responding to usual therapy. The above statement also warrants further diagnostic evaluation and management of non-asthma conditions that mimic asthma. We present here a case of a middle aged female who presented with severe bronchospasm, initially labeled as asthma but was resistant to usual anti-asthma therapy. After further workup she was eventually diagnosed to have esophageal achalasia.

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Differentiating Asthma from its mimics. (2011). Chest Disease Reports, 1(1), e17. https://doi.org/10.4081/cdr.1.191

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