A 20-year-old student attends the OPD with complaint of breathlessness on and off, cough and sputum.

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Medicine
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Allergy & Immunology, Pulmonary & Critical Care

Kathryn

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A 20-year-old student attends the OPD with complaint of breathlessness on and off, cough and sputum. His sleep is disturbed and skin is very dry in flexural areas of the body. On examination, he has tachypnea, hyperresonant percussion and wheezing on auscultation. What is the most likely diagnosis?
(A) Extrinsic allergic alveolitis
(B) Asthma
(C) Wegener’s granulomatosis
(D) COPD
(E) Cystic fibrosis