(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.
Wheeze
Definition:
(v. i.) To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
(n.) A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
(n.) An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper." It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(2) The differential diagnosis of infantile wheezing is of particular importance in this very young age group.
(3) When the combination of symptoms were introduced into the regression model, the effect of wheezing became insignificant.
(4) The attacks were detected by audible wheeze, augmentation of diaphragm, external intercostal and sternomastoid activity, associated with distinctive changes in thoracoabdominal motion.
(5) However, sedation is generally not recommended for infants with acute wheezing illnesses.
(6) Promotion of breast feeding and reduction of maternal smoking might reduce childhood wheezing.
(7) In children, manifestations of IgE-mediated food allergy (often in association with other immune mechanisms) include self-limiting and immediate reactions (e.g., urticaria, wheeze) and chronic diseases (food-sensitive enteropathies, eczema).
(8) From the response to the ATS-DLD-78-C respiratory symptoms questionnaire, 14 subjects (3.1%) were found to have asthma syndrome (recurrent episodes of attacks of shortness of breath with wheezing) and 17 subjects (3.7%), wheezing syndrome (only wheezing).
(9) Between 1981 and 1990 there was a 10.7% increase in the number of children who had been to their general practitioner for wheeze (p less than 0.001), a 5.3% increase in children who were on daily medication (p less than 0.001) and a 8.2% increase in the family history of asthma (p less than 0.001).
(10) The joint effect of smoking and phlegm as well as that of smoking and wheezing was close to being multiplicative.
(11) Increasing values for the sum of scores for the seven RAST tests were associated with progressively lower mean levels of small airways function in boys with histories of recurrent wheezing LRI during the preschool years.
(12) Danger signs of stridor and abnormal sleepiness were poorly recognised (sensitivity 0-50%) by the health care workers, as was audible wheeze.
(13) Presenting symptoms included dyspnea (52%), wheezing or stridor (44%), cough (41%), hemoptysis (37%), and pneumonia (18%).
(14) Wheezes were detected in running spectra of lung sounds by use of a frequency domain peak detection algorithm.
(15) One-third of the infants with neuroblastoma presented with paraplegia and one-third with respiratory symptoms including wheeze, stridor and respiratory difficulty.
(16) All wheezing visits to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Emergency Department were analyzed for 1982 and 1983, for ages two to 18.
(17) It is suggested that the stable acoustic properties obtained by this preparation may become useful in the analysis of mechanisms of wheezing lung sounds generation.
(18) Two of the four seronegative children developed a mild illness characterized by rhinorrhea and wheezing on auscultation; none had fever.
(19) Nevertheless the evidence for viral trigger of wheezing and long-term pulmonary sequelae must be considered and prevention must be undertaken at the first episode.
(20) Slight wheezing was noted 8 months before the monkey died.