On presentation to the pulmonary clinic, the patient reported dyspnea with minimal activity, fatigue, lightheadedness, and leg swelling. His temperature was 96.8 °F (36 °C); blood pressure, 120/71 mm Hg; heart rate, 73/min; and oxygen saturation, 98% on room air. He appeared frail...
The medical term for this symptom isdyspnea(say "DISP-nee-uh"). When heart failure develops gradually, your shortness of breath also may develop gradually, which can make it hard to notice. But people with more severe heart failure may have shortness of breath with minimal exertion. What i...
The patient reported generalized malaise, was easily fatigued and very short of breath with minimal exertion, had a nonproductive dry cough after lying flat... B Carroll,DA Robinson,S Markan,... - 《Journal of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Anesthesia》 被引量: 8发表: 2008年 Isolated anterior media...
We classified patients into 3 groups based on dyspnea severity at admission: dyspnea on moderate exertion (mild dyspnea), dyspnea on minimal exertion (moderate dyspnea), or dyspnea at rest (severe dyspnea). Outcomes of interest were mortality at 30 days post-admission, length of stay (LOS), ...
38-Year-Old Woman With Increasing Fatigue and Dyspnea The article presents a case study of a 38-year-old woman with increasing fatigue and dyspnea. She was taken to the emergency department and even minimal exertion has caused shortness of breath. Her medical history revealed that she had u....
A 29-year-old female presented to the emergency department (ED) with a chief complaint of worsening dyspnea over the prior three weeks. Her shortness of breath was exacerbated by exertion and lying down. It was also worse at night. Over the same time, she had developed a dry, raspy, no...
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012 nocturnal dyspnea Sleep disorders Respiratory distress, minimal during the day, which is disturbing in sleep McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. ...
Even when dyspnea was reported only for substantial exertion, it was associated with impairment of all domains of quality of life. Only half the spirometry results met the minimal criteria of validity and reproducibility. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: These results underline the importance of a specific...
Acute episodic, or incident, breathlessness—either spontaneous or associated with minor exertion—is a devastating and common symptom for patients with advanced cancer.1, 2 Ideally, such breathlessness requires fast-acting interventions to avoid consequent feelings of impending doom, fear and panic attac...
Minimal clinically important differences in the six-minute walk test and the incremental shuttle walking test. Simple walking tests are widely used for the assessment of functional status in patients with cardiorespiratory disorders. These tests require far less ins... RA Wise,CD Brown - 《Copd-...