Symptom/Finding |
inspiratory rales |
Description |
Crackles heard with a stethoscope while listening to lungs fill with air during inspiration; Inspiratory rales are a sign of pneumonia, pulmonary edema, asbestosis, and other lung diseases. |
Category |
Respiratory |
ICD-9 Code |
786.7 |
Related Information in Haz-Map |
Diseases |
Diseases associated with this finding or symptom:
- Asbestosis
- Chronic beryllium disease
- CWP, complicated
- Dengue fever
- Fumigants, acute toxic effect
- Glanders
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
- Hard metal disease
- Hendra and Nipah viral diseases
- Histoplasmosis
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, acute
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, chronic
- Legionellosis
- Melioidosis
- Mycoplasmal pneumonia
- Organophosphate & carbamates, acute
- Paracoccidioidomycosis
- Plague
- Pneumoconioses, other
- Pneumonitis, toxic
- Psittacosis
- Q fever
- Relapsing fever
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome
- Silicosis, acute
- Silicosis, complicated
- Strongyloidiasis
- Tuberculosis
- Tularemia
- Typhus, mite-borne scrub
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