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Wheeze

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Listen for: A continuous, musical, high-pitched whistle, usually loudest in expiration.

Usually means: Narrowed small airways: asthma, COPD, sometimes heart failure.

14 recordings of this finding. Compare with normal breath sounds to hear the difference.

References3
  1. Bohadana A, Izbicki G, Kraman SS. Fundamentals of lung auscultation. N Engl J Med. 2014;370(8):744-51.
  2. Pasterkamp H, Brand PLP, Everard M, et al. Towards the standardisation of lung sound nomenclature. Eur Respir J. 2016;47(3):724-32.
  3. Sarkar M, Madabhavi I, Niranjan N, Dogra M. Auscultation of the respiratory system. Ann Thorac Med. 2015;10(3):158-68.