What's the difference between dyspnea and dyspnoea?
Dyspnea
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Dyspnoea
Definition:
(n.) Difficulty of breathing.
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(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.