(1) Forty minutes after the induction of anaesthesia, the heart rate increased and she became hypotensive and deeply cyanosed.
(2) By contrast, the course of patients who were predominantly cyanosed was more stable in early childhood and their surgical outcome was less compromised by poor preoperative symptomatic status; their intracardiac repair can probably be delayed until symptoms become unacceptable.
(3) However, after 45 minutes, the temperature rose to 38.8 degrees C, pulse was rapid at 160 per minute and the child was slightly cyanosed.
(4) A cyanosed and painful hand followed the intravenous injection of methohexitone, and an oral laceration occurred during the extraction of a molar tooth.
(5) Simultaneous, blood pressure became unmeasurable, and the patient became cyanosed.
(6) The patient was thought to be cyanosed immediately after a total knee replacement.
(7) A 32-year-old man (weight 132 kg, height 190 cm) suddenly became unconscious and cyanosed with an unrecordable pulse and ventricular flutter on ECG.
(8) He became deeply cyanosed and suffered two episodes of asystole as the surgeons entered the abdomen.
(9) Neonates who present early with critical pulmonary valve stenosis may remain moderately to severely cyanosed for several days after a satisfactory valvotomy but this is almost invariably followed by a progressive increase in oxygen saturation to an acceptable level.
(10) A patient presented with a painful, oedematous, cyanosed hand having injected a solution of diamorphine and methylphenidate into his radial artery.
(11) Although the patient was not cyanosed, a cardiological work-up was requested to exclude a right-to-left shunt.
(12) We describe a female newborn infant who became severely hypoglycaemic (0.73 mg %), cyanosed and collapsed at five hours of age.
(13) The last and oldest child is well and no longer cyanosed.
(14) A 3-month-old boy, mildly cyanosed and tachypneic, was found by cineangiography to have a nonbranching main pulmonary artery arising from the right ventricle and connecting to the descending aorta via a large persistent ductus arteriosus.
(15) He continued to be intensely cyanosed and dyspnoeic despite adequate surgical correction of his cardiac defect as demonstrated on cardiac catheterisation and angiocardiography.
(16) The diagnosis should be strongly suspected in patients who are cyanosed and who present with interstitial pneumonia.
(17) The behaviour of the volume distribution curves (VVK) of red blood cells in children with cyanosed organic heart defect is reported by taking preoperative and postoperative observations as a basis.
(18) Prediction was uncertain though the one climber who became seriously cyanosed at 4,200 m (14,000 ft) had a consistently higher blood pressure than his colleagues.
(19) After 100 ml of the solution had been infused, the patient experienced mild respiratory distress, cyanosed lips, and hives of her abdomen.
(20) In the severely cyanosed patients, the conus septum was deviated so as to obstruct the pulmonary outflow tract, and was best visualized in the lateral projection.
Cyanosis
Definition:
(n.) A condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Preoperative presenting features were: dyspnoea on exertion, clubbing, cyanosis and polycythaemia.
(2) When he arrived at our hospital, congestive heart failure, cyanosis of his lower extremities and weak femoral pulses were observed.
(3) He was admitted with dyspnea on exertion, syncope, and severe cyanosis.
(4) Serum erythropoietin levels were measured by radioimmunoassay in 146 children and young adults with congenital heart disease to assess the relationship between erythropoietin and clinical factors (heart failure, anemia, cyanosis) and hemodynamic variables affecting oxygen delivery and utilization.
(5) Cyanosis of the hands and feet in Buerger's disease is known as 'Buerger's colour'.
(6) All children were in a severe condition, with deep central cyanosis, congestive heart failure and severe metabolic acidosis.
(7) Five patients had inadequate relief of cyanosis; three of these had venous collaterals and two had severe ventricular dysfunction; the latter two patients subsequently had strokes.
(8) The administration of these drugs was followed within 2-3 minutes by oedema of the eyelids and epiglottis, reduced peripheral circulation and central cyanosis.
(9) Clinical signs were tachycardia, dyspnea, cyanosis, and marked abdominal distention.
(10) The patient had experienced increasing fatigue, chest pain, shortness of breath, and slight cyanosis.
(11) Cyanosis was due to a large, anomalous inferior vena caval valve, the eustachian valve.
(12) The mean birth weight and height were significantly greater in the control group, and no control infant had an episode of cyanosis or pallor or repeated episodes of profuse sweating observed during their sleep.
(13) Our patient with this complication presented sudden onset of severe hypotension and cyanosis after several ventricular premature beats.
(14) Life-threatening asthma may be judged to be present in patients who, in the presence of a low FEV(1) are too dyspneic to speak, have altered consciousness or unequivocal cyanosis.
(15) This rare esophageal rupture should be suspected in any chest injury patients, especially those characterized by extreme cyanosis, dyspnea, shock, and prostration incompatible with thoracic cage injury.
(16) Acute toxicities, taking the form of fever, chills, tachycardia, hypertension, peripheral cyanosis, nausea and vomiting, headache, chest tightness, low back pain, diarrhea and shortness of breath were seen, but were not dose-limiting or dose-related.
(17) To study the effects of chronic cyanosis on left ventricular function, nine dogs underwent inferior vena cava-to-left atrial anastomosis, a model that minimizes abnormal left ventricular hemodynamic loads.
(18) Cyanosis was due to right to left shunt through direct right pulmonary artery--left atrium fistula.
(19) In the second case, an intrapulmonary shunt due to multiple arteriovenous fistulae demonstrated by contrast echocardiography was responsible for persistent mild cyanosis for a few months after surgery.
(20) Multichannel recordings should therefore be considered in all infants with unexplained episodes of apnea, bradycardia or cyanosis, in order to clarify the type of apnea and to rule out underlying conditions such as gastroesophageal reflux or seizures.