(a.) Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a/ration of the blood.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Cyanotic
Definition:
(a.) Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(2) When the first recordings of each of infants who died of SIDS, except one who had cyanotic episodes prior to death, were compared to recordings of survivors (six for each case) closely matched for age, gestation, and weight at birth, no differences in breathing patterns or heart or respiratory rates during regular breathing could be demonstrated.
(3) Prostaglandin E2 was administered to 22 newborns with ductus-dependent cyanotic congenital heart disease.
(4) Nondepolarizing muscle relaxants are administered to hypoxic neonates (including those with severe cyanotic congenital heart disease) to reduce oxygen consumption.
(5) Forty children with CHD were studied: ten children with no interchamber communication and normal pulmonary blood flow (PBF) (normal group); ten acyanotic children with increased PBF (acyanotic-shunting group); ten cyanotic children with mixing type lesions and normal or increased PBF (mixing group), and ten cyanotic children with right-to-left intracardiac shunts demonstrating decreased and variable PBF (cyanotic-shunting group).
(6) Mean packed cell quantities gained intraoperatively were: 1275 (1006-2067) ml (descending aortic aneurysm), 1800 (1186-2500) ml (ascending aortic aneurysm), 1524 (1030-1801) ml (single valve rereplacement), 1896 (1398-2368) ml (double valve rereplacement), 946 (800-1050) ml (coronary artery reoperation), 1362 (922-1455) ml (cyanotic heart disease) and 1519 (1194-2066) ml (miscellaneous cardiac operations).
(7) Since the chronically cyanotic myocardium appears to be more susceptible to reperfusion injury after cardiac operations than the noncyanotic myocardium, we studied the association between the preoperative arterial oxygen tension and the myocardial superoxide dismutase, catalase, and glutathione peroxidase activities.
(8) Elevated erythropoietin values in cyanotic patients were associated with lower mixed venous oxygen saturation and tension than in cyanotic patients with normal erythropoietin levels, even though the degree of polycythemia was similar.
(9) However, the compensatory polycythemic response in patients with CF was inadequate when compared with the response to hypoxemia in patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease.
(10) Children with cyanotic heart disease produced approximately 20% less carbon dioxide per unit body weight than acyanotic children, but ventilation was approximately 20% less efficient.
(11) Hb M Hyde Park disease was detected in a girl who for several years was thought to have cyanotic heart disease.
(12) These included 7 cases of ventricular septal defect (VSD), 3 cases of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), 2 cases of atrio-ventricular canal defect, 2 cases of ventricular septal defect with patent ductus arteriosus, 1 case of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 1 case of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and 1 case of complex cyanotic heart.
(13) Recordings were made in 16 preterm infants with recurrent cyanotic episodes of unknown cause that had received stimulation or resuscitation, and 15 preterm controls, matched for birth weight, post-conceptional and postnatal age.
(14) We present three cases of cyanotic congenital heart disease in which subclinical neuroblastoma was found.
(15) A simple auditory reaction time test was, therefore, performed on 239 patients with congenital heart disease, 43 of whom were cyanotic.
(16) Contrast techniques were used in the echocardiological evaluation of a 28-yr-old patient with congenital cyanotic heart disease; catheterization showed an association of an atrial septum defect, a ventricular septum defect, and a patent ductus arteriosus, with equalization of pulmonary artery and systemic pressures.
(17) Small erythematous or cyanotic lesions on the hands and feet of four patients with antiphospholipid antibodies are described.
(18) A cyanotic type of severe heart defect is one of the factors predisposing to poor success at school and a dependent lifestyle.
(19) Six unselected neonates with cyanotic congenital heart disease and life-threatening degrees of arterial oxygen desaturation have been managed by a protocol that includes administration of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) and early Blalock-Taussig shunting.
(20) For this reason most of them became cyanotic and had subcutaneous edema and hemorrhages in the head and neck and died without hatching.