COPD: Pathogenesis, Epidemiology, and the Role of Cigarette Smoke
February 24, 1981|Family Medicine
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4. Beware: there are other diseases that can mimic COPD:
The differential diagnosis of COPD is broad, and it includes many considerations, among them:
- Asthma
- Heart failure
- Coronary artery disease
- Bronchiectasis
- Atypical pneumonia
- Tuberculosis
- Physical deconditioning
- Restrictive lung diseases (including sarcoidosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis)
- Chronic fungal or atypical mycobacterial lung infections
- Bronchiolitis
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