(1) All patients presented with severe oropharyngeal dysphagia and frequent aspiration together with pharyngooral and pharyngonasal regurgitation.
(2) Patients were divided into two groups based on etiology of dysphagia (central neurologic vs local mechanical dysfunction).
(3) The main side effect was dysphagia, which appeared to be dose related in individual patients.
(4) A patient presenting with dysphagia and weight loss was found to have a large midesophageal mass.
(5) Experience from the use of feeding plates for babies with cleft palate and from the treatment of dysphagia in patients recovering from stroke led to the design of a simple intraoral appliance.
(6) Carefull angiographic investigation can avoid misjudging the symptoms (stridor, dysphagia) and can contribute to an exact diagnosis thus preventing unnecessary operation.
(7) Complications, such as superficial ulcers, dysphagia, and strictures, were observed in 14%, 7% of emergency, and 3% of elective patients.
(8) The children (a two-year and a three-year old boy), who seemed completely healthy, sudden suffered from acute inflammation of the upper respiratory tract with dyspnea, inspiratory stridor, fever, dysphagia, and flow of saliva.
(9) A case of massive DISH in the cervical spine causing dysphagia is described.
(10) Failure to complete feeds, dysphagia, vomiting, coughing, choking and recurrent respiratory symptoms were also significantly more common in this group than in the primary anastomosis group (labeled as group A) even in the absence of stricture.
(11) Eighteen patients complained of dysphagia, but only in 12 of them did endoscopy show esophagitis.
(12) Twenty-four Bouviers with dysphagia were examined between October 1986 and October 1988.
(13) Dysphagia was progressive in all 15 and, in most cases, preceded the onset of other severe brain stem signs.
(14) However, this graft may cause dysphagia by discoordination of contractions, retrograde propulsion of a bolus, or a sustained local contraction, demonstrating the clinical problems associated with free jejunal graft reconstruction of the cervical esophagus.
(15) However, dysphagia occurred in pigs kept alive for more than a month and the main reason was malfunction of the device because of surrounding fibrosis.
(16) Records from 910 patients referred to our clinical esophageal manometry laboratory for evaluation of noncardiac chest pain between January 1983 and December 1985 were reviewed and compared with records from 251 patients referred for dysphagia.
(17) Recurrent ossifications were detected in them some years after surgery, and one of them complained of dysphagia again.
(18) This serendipitous observation antedates clinical signs and symptoms of dysphagia.
(19) The most important manometric abnormality was the feeble contractions of the pharyngeal musculature, more pronounced in patients with severe dysphagia (grade II).
(20) Six refused because of excellent relief of their dysphagia, and one was denied operation.
Dyspnoea
Definition:
(n.) Difficulty of breathing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(2) The toxicity at this dose included pericarditis and dyspnoea ascribed to a 'capillary-leak' syndrome.
(3) Preoperative presenting features were: dyspnoea on exertion, clubbing, cyanosis and polycythaemia.
(4) This scale thus provides a reproducible and sensitive estimation of the sensation of dyspnoea during effort and thus appears valuable in evaluating the subjective response in therapeutic trials in patients who are dyspnoeic on effort.
(5) When confronted with a case of dyspnoea, three questions must be asked: is the dyspnoea due to a pulmonary organic disease?
(6) The main complaints on stopping exercise were dyspnoea in the patients with COPD and fatigue in the healthy subjects.
(7) Different subforms of depression are not influenced by a history of angina pectoris, the degree and location of myocardial infarction, the occurrence of late potentials and age, whereas dyspnoea (P less than 0.001) and the recurrence of myocardial infarction (P less than 0.001) favour depressive mood states.
(8) In multiple logistic models, accounting for independent effects of age, smoking, pack-years, parents' smoking, socio-economic status, body mass index, significantly increased odds ratios were found in males for the associations of: bottled gas for cooking with cough (1.66) and dyspnoea (1.81); stove for heating with cough (1.44) and phlegm (1.39); stove fuelled by natural gas and fan or stove fuelled other than by natural gas with cough (1.54 and 1.66).
(9) The clinical history of recurrent bronchitis and dyspnoea during exercise, the presence of right parasternal murmur with normal heart size and normal blood gases justified the execution of an arteriovenous thoracic angiography which revealed the presence of a cirsoid aneurysm supplied by the internal and external mammary arteries.
(10) The intravenous injection of 5-HT relieves established migraine headache, but causes side-effects of nausea, faintness, paraesthesia and dyspnoea.
(11) After resection dyspnoea was rarely the only limiting factor at maximal exercise.
(12) Intra-thoracic symptoms such as dysphagia or dyspnoea due to compression or associated pleural effusions are common and urgent decompression by percutaneous or internal drainage is often necessary.
(13) Two of the horses died during severe bouts of dyspnoea six and eight months later and the third was killed shortly thereafter.
(14) There were no major differences between the treatments, in this small group of patients, although a significant difference (in favour of amoxycillin) was demonstrated in the patients' subjective dyspnoea score.
(15) A previously healthy 42-year-old man reported increasing exertional dyspnoea with retrosternal feeling of tightness.
(16) The authors describe the course of the disease in a 28-year-old woman who suffered two years following surgery of breast cancer from rapidly deteriorating dyspnoea, syncopes and laboratory manifestations of global respiratory insufficiency.
(17) Results show dyspnoea to be the only symptom strongly influencing survival.
(18) There was a significant decrease of rate adjusted isovolumic relaxation time, probably secondary to altered loading conditions, in severe dyspnoea, but not in mild to moderate dyspnoea.
(19) All but two subjects stopped exercise because of dyspnoea, and the maximum oxygen uptake achieved by the group was 53 per cent (n = 15, range 26-66 per cent) of predicted maximum oxygen consumption.
(20) A borderline significant association between passive smoking and dyspnoea was observed among women older than 40 in the French survey.