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Can you tell me in patient with status asthmaticus, what is the cause of inspiratory wheezing?
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Narrow airway: In asthma, wheezing is usually expiratory, but in any case, the sound of wheeze is basically caused by the movement of air through a narrow airway.
Answered 11/16/2014
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