Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Respiratory System (J00-J99)

  • Pneumonia (pneumonia)
  • SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; severe acute respiratory syndrome) – in this respiratory infection with one coronavirus (SARS-associated coronavirus, SARS-CoV), atypical pneumonia (pneumonia) occurs; lethality (mortality rate) 11%.
  • Influenza (flu)

Cardiovascular system (I00-I99)

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

  • MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus); formerly referred to as human betacoronavirus 2c EMC/2012 (HCoV-EMC, also human coronavirus EMC, was initially referred to as “new coronavirus” NCoV); from the coronavirus family (Coronaviridae); first identified in 2012; causes severe respiratory tract infection; course: Acute onset flu-like illness that can progress to pneumonia (lung inflammation) during the first week and later to acute respiratory distress syndrome with renal failure; lethality 40%.
  • SARS-CoV-2 (synonyms: novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV); 2019-nCoV (2019-novel coronavirus; coronavirus 2019-nCoV); Wuhan coronaviru) – this respiratory tract infection with SARS-CoV-2 results in an atypical pneumonia called COVID-19 (Engl. coronavirus disease 2019, coronavirus disease-2019) has received; lethality (mortality based on the total number of people suffering from the disease) 2.3%.

Genitourinary system (kidneys, urinary tract-genital organs) (N00-N99).

  • Renal insufficiency (renal weakness) with fluid lung (synonym: wet lung; storage of tissue fluid in the lungs in terms of incipient pulmonary edema).