What is Differential Diagnosis?

Differential diagnosis in Western medicine refers to the identification of other diseases based on the patient's main complaint and the possible diagnosis of other diseases.

Differential diagnosis

Right!

Differential diagnosis in Western medicine refers to the identification of other diseases based on the patient's main complaint and the possible diagnosis of other diseases.

Symptoms are various abnormal pains that a patient feels consciously, or pathological changes learned through a doctor's examination. Such as headache, dizziness, etc. It is the performance of the body after the occurrence of disease, and it is an objective indicator for doctors to diagnose and judge diseases.

Symptoms and syndromes are completely different concepts. Syndromes, simply referred to as "certificates," are the synthesis and generalization of etiology, pathogenesis, disease location, symptoms, tongue diagnosis, and pulse diagnosis. Such as table evidence, yin deficiency syndrome, etc. It reflects the nature of the disease and is the conclusion of clinical diagnosis of the disease.

Pathogenesis is the mechanism of the occurrence, development and outcome of diseases. It is the link between syndromes and symptoms, and it is also the core component of syndromes. The pathogenesis determines the nature of the disease. Many symptoms linked by the same pathogenesis constitute the syndrome.

Clinically, the disease is ever-changing and the symptoms are complicated. Only through careful study of various common symptoms, signs and pathogenesis, can the same symptoms appear in different diseases and syndromes be identified. Symptom identification is to study the etiology and pathogenesis of different diseases from similar symptoms, in order to explore the nature of the disease, which is a key step for correct dialectical treatment. Therefore, the identification of symptoms is one of the important links in the diagnosis of diseases and syndromes.