CLINICAL trialsEXERCISEIntroduction: Spontaneous pneumothorax in children is a rare condition and sometimes the diagnosis is difficult. It is more frequent in male patients, adolescents, with the leptosomal phenotype and smokers. Clinical case: A 16-year-old man presented a spontaneous pneumothorax ...
Since patients with IPPFE are prone to developing pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum, it is important to pay attention to the content of exercise training. Among various exercises, weightlifting, which increases intrathoracic pressure with pressure breath-hold, has been reported to be a risk factor for...
b Phase-contrast microscopy of a sample taken during exercise (wet smear, × 1000). As indicated by the arrows, the 4 characteristic free anterior flagella, nucleus, and axial column of the T. tenax trophozoites were well stained. The undulating membrane is shorter than the long axis of...
Overall, a great variability in the clinical outcome following valve therapy was observed in the total patient cohort. Another retrospective analysis demonstrated that in patients who develop lobar atelectasis following valve therapy, the changes in lung function parameters, exercise capacity, and dyspnea ...