Pulmonology · Pulmonology / Sleep and breathing disorders
Hyperventilation syndrome
also: Dysfunctional breathing
Overbreathing with multisystem symptoms without organic cause.
- Specialty
- Pulmonology
- Subspecialty
- Pulmonology / Sleep and breathing disorders
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, female predominance; Children: yes, adolescents
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Dysfunctional breathing
Etiology & mechanism
Respiratory alkalosis from inappropriate ventilatory pattern.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (7)
In plain terms, someone with Hyperventilation syndrome may experience the following — click any to explore related syndromes:
Same gene(s)
Other syndromes that involve one of this syndrome's genes.
Overlapping symptoms
Other syndromes that share symptoms with this one.
Drag nodes, scroll to zoom, click a node to open that syndrome.
Shares symptoms with
4 shared
Hyperventilation tetany syndrome
anxiety, carpopedal spasm, dizziness, paresthesia
2 shared
Holiday heart syndrome
dizziness, palpitations
2 shared
Hyperventilation syndrome with neurological symptoms
carpopedal spasm, dizziness
2 shared
Lown–Ganong–Levine syndrome
dizziness, palpitations
2 shared
Mitral valve prolapse
anxiety, palpitations
2 shared
Pacemaker syndrome
dizziness, palpitations
2 shared
Roemheld syndrome
dizziness, palpitations
2 shared
Short QT syndrome
dizziness, palpitations
2 shared
Sick sinus syndrome
dizziness, palpitations
2 shared
Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome
dizziness, palpitations
Shares genes with
None.
Loading…
Loading…