Lynn Elsey

Sep 1, 2023 | breathe.ersjournals.com | Rachel Daly |Lynn Elsey |Helen Hope |Siobhan Ludlow

IntroductionRespiratory symptoms such as dyspnoea, chest and throat tightness, cough, and noisy breathing are nonspecific, and clinical assessment and testing are required to make a diagnosis. Many patients have persistent symptoms either in the absence of an obvious cause or when the most obvious cause has been adequately treated. We use the term “complex breathlessness” to describe this presentation, as also defined in the ERS Monograph in 2022 [1].