La vignette diagnostique de l'etudiant. La dyspnee.

Dyspnea is an extremely common symptom in medicine and in cardio-pulmonary medicine in particular. In most of the cases dyspnea reflects an unbalance between the ventilatory demand and the possibility of the thoracic and lung mechanics. Through to a simple clinical case describing an early stage of lung fibrosis we review the main causes and the differential diagnoses of dyspnea, and provide means of grading it through validated assessment scales.