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Acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis (AECB) is a very common condition, which presents with deteriorating sputum production and dyspnoea in a patient with pre-existing COPD or chronic bronchitis. As these symptoms are relatively non-specific and also the presenting feature of a wide range of other conditions, the physician should carefully consider the differential diagnosis before deciding on whether or not a patient indeed has AECB. The differential diagnosis can be summarised as pneumonia, pneumothorax, cardiac failure/cor pulmonale, bronchiectasis, asthma, tuberculosis, sinusitis and other forms of upper respiratory tract sepsis, diffuse panbronchiolitis, lung cancer, gastro-oesophageal reflux, the presence of a foreign body in the airway, melioidosis, and lung abscess. This article aims to discuss these conditions, with brief presentation of clinical cases, in the evaluation of differential diagnosis of AECB.
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PMID:Solutions for difficult diagnostic cases of acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis. 1158 3