Friday, October, 23, 2009
Pulmonary Insufficiency
Health Encyclopedia: Pulmonary Nocardiosis
Alternative Names
Nocardiosis - pulmonary
Symptoms
- Lungs and airways
- Chest pain not due to heart problems
- Shortness of breath
- Rapid breathing
- Coughing up blood
-
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
- Nervous system
- Headache
- Change in mental state (occurs with brai...
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