(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.
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.