Cyanosis: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)

  • Central cyanosis
  • Peripheral cyanosis
  • Combination of central and peripheral cyanosis
  • Hemiglobin cyanosis; causes of hemiglobin cyanosis are the occurrence of:
    • Carboxyhemoglobin → carboxyhemoglobinemia.
    • Methemoglobin → methemoglobinemia
    • Sulfhemoglobin → carboxyhemoglobinemia
  • Pseudocyanosis