inspiratory rales

Description

Crackles heard with a stethoscope while listening to lungs fill with air during inspiration; Inspiratory rales are a sign of pneumonia, pulmonary edema, asbestosis, and other lung diseases.

Category

Respiratory

ICD-9 Code

786.7

ICD-10 Code

R09.89

Diseases

Diseases associated with this finding or symptom:

• Asbestosis
• Blastomycosis
• Chronic beryllium disease
• Coronavirus infections
• CWP, complicated
• Dengue fever
• Fumigants, acute toxic effect
• Glanders
• Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
• Hard metal disease
• Hendra and Nipah viral diseases
• Histoplasmosis
• Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
• Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, acute
• Legionellosis
• Melioidosis
• Mycoplasmal pneumonia
• Organophosphates & carbamates, acute poisoning
• Paracoccidioidomycosis
• Plague
• Pneumoconioses, other
• Pneumonitis, toxic
• Psittacosis
• Q fever
• Relapsing fever
• Silicosis, acute
• Silicosis, complicated
• Strongyloidiasis
• Tuberculosis
• Tularemia
• Typhus, mite-borne scrub