(n.) Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four patients developed apnoea after epidural administration of 50 micrograms of sufentanil.
(2) Diclofenac sodium suppositories 150-200 mg day-1 were compared with placebo in a double-blind study during the first 3 days after uvulopalatopharyngoplasty in 40 patients with habitual snoring or obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome.
(3) The syndrome of obstructive sleep apnoea is associated with an increased morbidity (the consequence of diurnal hypersomnolence and cardiovascular complications).
(4) By means of the adaptive estimation of the variance of respiratory movements, an amplitude-time window is calculated to choose between epochs with breaths and apnoea.
(5) In very low birthweight cases the risk factors identified were those associated with prolonged or recurrent hypoxia (recurrent apnoea, respiratory distress, assisted ventilation, and umbilical artery catheterisation).
(6) In patients with obstructive sleep apnoea the upper airway is prone to collapse during inspiration when the patient is supine, even when awake; this tendency can be reversed by breathing carbon dioxide.
(7) These effects were not accompanied by cardiac arrhythmias, with the exception of one animal, in which an unusually prolonged period of apnoea occurred.3.
(8) A patient with acromegaly was shown to have obstructive sleep apnoea by polygraphic recordings.
(9) Veratrine injected intravenously produced apnoea, bradycardia and long-lasting hypotension.
(10) In patients suspected of an obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome, however, it will always be necessary to perform further stage-wise diagnosis to safeguard the diagnosis.
(11) lignocaine, when plasma concentrations of lignocaine exceeded 4.7 micrograms ml-1, tracheal irritation elicited only brief apnoea.
(12) The combined effects of negative intrathoracic pressure swings during obstructive sleep apnoeas (OSAs) and increased sympathetic nervous system tone associated with hypoxia and sleep arousal may lead to pulmonary oedema or left-ventricular hypertrophy.
(13) The electrical activity of both expiratory and inspiratory muscles was inhibited during end-expiratory apnoea phase following injection of pdg into the right atrium.
(14) Stimulation of the nasal mucous membrane with ether vapour or water caused apnoea, bradycardia, a rise in arterial blood pressure and an increase in adrenal medullary catecholamine secretion.3.
(15) Seven male patients with obstructive sleep apnoea exhibited a paradoxical rise in both urine and sodium output during the hours of sleep.
(16) over 5 min) produced immediate disturbances in respiration (including dyspnoea and apnoea), blood pressure and heart rate followed by severe hypotension (mean systemic blood pressure less than 50 mmHg) or death due to respiratory and circulatory failure within 196 min.
(17) Although anatomical abnormalities of the upper airway have been recorded in some patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), a muscle tone dysregulation also seems to have an important role in this disorder.
(18) The variability between patients in the site(s) of upper airway obstruction during obstructive apnoeas have important implications for the choice of appropriate treatment in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea.
(19) The apparent excess risk is probably due to the consequences of sleep apnoea rather than snoring itself.
(20) In chemoreceptor-denervated animals, secondary depression led to central apnoea.
Asphyxia
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Asphyxy
Example Sentences:
(1) Multivariate analysis of high risk factors associated with increased risk of asphyxia showed that low birth weight was the most significant predictor of asphyxia: asphyxia occurred in 68% of infants of less than 1,000 g birth weight and decreased to 1.2% in infants of 3-4 kg birth weight.
(2) Indications for the correction of acidosis in asphyxia are proposed.
(3) After the completion of rejection reaction, inflammation finally induced scarring or necrosis of the tracheal allograft, resulting in asphyxia or perforation.
(4) Malformation was the principal cause of death in 28 cases, antepartum haemorrhage in 19, hypertension in 25, and asphyxia in 35.
(5) Although true in asphyxia, breathing activates lung mechanoreceptors which reduce vagal outflow and apparently, in humans, abolishes sympathetic vasomotor activity (SNA).
(6) Similar responses were seen during asphyxia plus isoflurane-oxygen.
(7) Sixteen newborn infants with severe asphyxia were prospectively studied for evidence of secondary myocardial damage and, in that case, their clinical findings.
(8) Since some of these patients closely resembled cases of idiopathic torsion dystonia, the prior occurrence of asphyxia should be used as a criterion of exclusion for that diagnosis.
(9) The chart is based on the pathophysiological changes that occur in perinatal asphyxia, directing the user to the appropriate manoeuvres required to correct those changes, depending on the degree of asphyxia which is determined by clinical signs and by use of the Apgar score.
(10) Twenty-one neonates of over 36 weeks' gestation suffered perinatal asphyxia but not chronic hypoxia.
(11) In the control group, asphyxia after CAO produced cardiorespiratory failure in every animal in less than 6 minutes.
(12) We conclude that reduced blood flow to the fetal skin after repeated episodes of asphyxia indicates circulatory redistribution, which can be detected by transcutaneous PO2 measurements.
(13) Birth asphyxia was the commonest aetiological factor (30%).
(14) The effects of 3 hours of controlled intrauterine asphyxia (acidotic hypoxia) on the sedimentation patterns of cerebral polyribosomes and on polyribosome supported in vitro protein synthesis were examined in 16 term monkey fetuses.
(15) Blood samples drawn in single cases before, during, and after recovery from bradycardia identified an associated increase in asphyxia of the fetuses.
(16) Neutropenia in the presence of respiratory distress in the first 72 hours had an 84% likelihood of signifying bacterial disease, whereas neutropenia in the presence of asphyxia had a 68% likelihood of signifying bacterial disease.
(17) Most of the stillbirth and neonatal deaths were because of gross asphyxia, prolonged labor due to cephalopelvic disproportion and uterine dysfunction, fetal distress, and abnormal presentation.
(18) Each case was complicated by neonatal asphyxia, and the neonate needed resuscitation by means of endotracheal intubation.
(19) Low birthweight (LBW) and perinatal asphyxia are known to be high-risk factors for a number of neurodevelopmental deficits.
(20) On these conditions multiple anomalies combined with prematurity and intrauterine asphyxia had some influence on, whether a patient lived so long, that an operation could take place.