Hyperventilation

in medicine, hyperventilation, a state of breathing faster and/or deeper than necessary, bringing about lightheadedness and other undesirable symptoms often associated with panic attacks

Parent Class

alkalosis

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperventilation

Symptoms

Tetany, Breathlessness, Chest pain, Dizzyness, paresthesia

ICD Code

"786.01", "R06.4"

Class

▶ phenomenon, medical condition, Biochemical abnormality, medical concept, cause,  …

symptom

Causes

▶ pneumonia, meningitis, pulmonary embolism, anxiety disorder, pain,  …

pulmonary edema, altitude sickness, Rett syndrome, panic disorder, somatization disorder, liver failure, Ventricular septal defect, Hyperventilation syndrome, Heat stroke, Intracranial space-occupying lesion, Cerebrovascular accident, Carbamoylphosphate synthetase deficiency

Cause of

▶ paresthesia, Chest pain, Dizzyness, Tetany, Breathlessness,  …

Urine pH high, Chloride levels raised (plasma or serum), Hypophosphataemia

Related Websites

http://www-isu.indstate.edu/mary/lytenote.htm, http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/20/12/2855.pdf

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OpenCyc ID

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DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hyperventilation

Mesh ID

"D006985"

Diseases DB id

"406"

Cause

▶ pneumonia, meningitis, aspirin, pulmonary embolism, anxiety disorder,  …

pain, pulmonary edema, altitude sickness, panic disorder, somatization disorder, liver failure, Hyperventilation syndrome, Heat stroke, Arginosuccinic aciduria, Intracranial space-occupying lesion, Cerebrovascular accident, theophylline, Carbamoylphosphate synthetase deficiency

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