Pulmonary Insufficiency
Health Encyclopedia: Pulmonary Nocardiosis
Nocardiosis - pulmonary
Symptoms
- Lungs and airways
- Chest pain not due to heart problems
- Shortness of breath
- Rapid breathing
- Coughing up blood
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Cough with mucous - Breathing gets harder and harder (pulmonary insufficiency)
- Gastrointestinal system
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Unintentional weight loss
- Swollen liver and spleen (
hepatosplenomegaly )
- Muscles and joints
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Joint pain
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- Nervous system
- Headache
- Change in mental state (occurs with brai...
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