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	Dyspnoea in Palliative Medicine
		Dyspnoea occurs in between one quarter and three quarters of patients with advanced diseases, not only in patients with cancers of respiratory organs.
		Continuous dyspnoea may be the most distressing and panicking suffering for both patient and family.
		As a result, they are indicated in obstructive dyspnoea and lymphangitis carcinomatosis where there are blockage of lymphatic drainage of the lung at the hilar lymph nodes resulting in lung stiffness and impaired oxygen diffusion through the alveoli.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~vchan/Dyspnoea.htm (2318 words)

	Opioids for management of dyspnoea
		Dyspnoea is a subjective sensation of difficulty in breathing, and is common with advanced disease, including cancer, respiratory, cardiac, and neuromuscular disease.
		Prevalence of dyspnoea can be 50% or more in patients dying of cancer and cardiac disease, and can be very distressing.
		The primary outcome measure was a subjective assessment of dyspnoea.
	www.jr2.ox.ac.uk /bandolier/booth/Palliative/dysp.html (298 words)

	Functional variables associated with the clinical grade of dyspnoea in coal miners with pneumoconiosis and mild ...
		Dyspnoea is a common symptom in coal miners with pneumoconiosis.
		The degree of dyspnoea as assessed by the questionnaire was
		Dyspnoea is a subjective sensation with a complex pathophysiological basis.
	oem.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/58/12/794 (3002 words)

	SymptomControl.info: Dyspnoea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The cause of a patients dyspnoea or the worsening of the symptom should always be investigated.
		Dyspnoea can be treated medically with opioids (independently of the underlying cause) and benzodoazepines can be used for patients with anxiety or panic attacks.
		The main symptom of COPD is dyspnoea, the slow progressive course of the disease causes the patients functional ability to slowly drop.
	www.symptomcontrol.com /84.0.html (2780 words)

	PROVET HEALTHCARE INFORMATION - Dyspnoea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dyspnoea can be due to difficulty experienced during inspiration, during expiration or during both these phases of the respiratory cycle.
		Dyspnoea is different to tachypnoea which is an increase in respiratory rate, orthopnoea in which an animal adopts an unusual position (usually with the neck extended) to help it breath or hyperpnoea in which the animal takes deeper breaths.
		The likely cause of dyspnoea can be identified from the presence of abnormal respiratory sounds on auscultation.
	www.provet.co.uk /health/signs/dyspnoea.htm (88 words)

	[No title]
		Dyspnoea is defined as difficult or laboured breathing and is a frequent reason for presentation of a rabbit at a veterinary surgery.
		Defining the anatomical location of the source of the dyspnoea can be a useful first step in directing more specific diagnostic tests to establish the definitive diagnosis.
		Dyspnoea caused by pleurisy, diaphragmatic rupture or general thoracic trauma is usually due to physical restriction or pain rather than an actual lung damage or loss of function.
	www.vetsforum.co.uk /article_dyspnoea_rabbit.htm (1268 words)

	Select Chest pain, dyspnoea and haemoptysis
		Dyspnoea, similarly, is a symptom of potentially serious significance and is frequently encountered in surgical patients.
		Dyspnoea occurs in normal subjects after exercise but pathological dyspnoea reflects underlying disease where the work of breathing is inappropriate to the stimulus.
		Pathological dyspnoea is a symptom common to respiratory and cardiac diseases.
	www.rcsed.ac.uk /eselect/sig14.htm (6280 words)

	Palliative care and dyspnoea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dyspnoea is a frequent and distressing symptom for patients with advanced cancer.
		However, the effects of supplemental oxygen on dyspnoea for non-hypoxic patients have not been established and the cost of home oxygen is not reimbursed for non-hypoxic patients.
		The intensity of dyspnoea and the patient’s ability to continue walking were assessed after three minutes, and at the end of six minutes walk each patient was asked to rest and measure the intensity of their own dyspnoea and fatigue using 0-10 scale.
	www.medicineau.net.au /news.html?NewsID=3361 (684 words)

	WSAVA 2001 - Dyspnoea and Coughing in Small Animal Practice
		Many of these disorders will not be associated with dyspnoea as it is difficult to significantly occlude the lumen of these relatively wide airways.
		One is tracheal hypoplasia, a congenital malformation of the trachea producing significant narrowing of the trachea and associated dyspnoea.
		When coughing, dyspnoea, and abnormal thoracic respiratory sounds are due to pulmonary oedema, cardiac abnormalities should also be detectable.
	www.vin.com /VINDBPub/SearchPB/Proceedings/PR05000/PR00198.htm (1091 words)

	Quarterly
		Dyspnoea, an unpleasant sensation of difficulty in breathing is common symptoms of multiple pathologies.
		Investigations are in the progress to elucidate the precise mechanisms, which produce the sensation of dyspnoea, in the areas of respiratory physiology, neurophysiology, pulmonary medicine and psychiatry.
		The hypothesis that dyspnoea might be reduced by pharmacological alternations of signal processing in the central nervous system has attracted and fascinated a number of investigators.
	www.pjms.com.pk /issues/aprjun02/page4.html (993 words)

	Exertional dyspnoea in patients with airway obstruction, with and without CO2 retention -- Cloosterman et al. 53 (9): ...
		Exertional dyspnoea in patients with airway obstruction, with and without CO retention
		Dyspnoea is a common and disabling symptom in patients with cardiopulmonary disease.
		Sensation of dyspnoea during hypercapnia, exercise, and voluntary hyperventilation.
	thorax.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/53/9/768 (3863 words)

	Acupressure Eases Dyspnoea. Massage Research on the East-West Healing Arts Institute Website
		Activity, fatigue and dyspnoea were rated at the beginning and end of the study using the Pulmonary Function Status and Dyspnoea Questionnaire-Modified (PFSDQ-M).
		Subjects also rated their levels of anxiety associated with dyspnoea using the State Anxiety Inventory at the start and finish of the study, and took a six-minute walking distance test as well, to evaluate tolerance of activity.
		Mean scores on the PFSDQ-M showed that dyspnoea in the true-acupressure group decreased significantly after the intervention and that fatigue levels for this group improved significantly, as compared to the sham-acupressure group.
	acupressureschool.com /massage_reasearch_Acupressure-Eases-Dyspnoea.htm (447 words)

	Dyspnoea at rest and at the end of different exercises in patients with near-fatal asthma -- Barreiro et al. 24 (2): ...
		Dyspnoea at rest and at the end of different exercises in patients with near-fatal asthma -- Barreiro et al.
		Dyspnoea at rest and at the end of different exercises in patients with near-fatal asthma
		Dyspnoea at rest was significantly lower in NFA patients.
	erj.ersjournals.com /cgi/content/full/24/2/219 (3572 words)

	Feline Asthma & Other Respiratory Disorders
		Dyspnoea is a clinical sign that is seen relatively commonly in cats.
		The first step in diagnosing the cause of dyspnoea is to determine if it is due to non-respiratory causes, URT disease, LRT disease or disease affecting the pleural space.
		Inspiratory dyspnoea is usually associated with URT disease resulting in airway obstruction, or pleural disease preventing full lung expansion.
	www.felineasthma.org /links/gunn-moore.htm (7967 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The aim of this topic is to revise the pathological basis of acute dyspnoea.
		A wide variety of conditions are associated with acute dyspnoea, including such common and important diseases as asthma, pulmonary emboli, and pulmonary oedema.
		Describe the factors that predispose to the development of pulmonary thromboembolism, explain its possible clinical consequences, and outline an appropriate sequence of investigations to confirm the diagnosis.
	web.med.unsw.edu.au /pathology/path97/ACDYSPN.HTM (230 words)

	Objectives of this issue
		Dyspnoea even at rest is very close to the severity level of pulmonary oedema.
		Dyspnoea not prominent untill heart failure and anaemia is there.
		All coughs associated with dyspnoea should be investigated keeping in mind diagnosis of asthma and congestive heart failure.
	www.pakjfm.com /archives/apr2002 (7194 words)

	DYSPNOEA AT REST AND DYSPNOEA ON EXERTION
		Bronchial Asthma is diagnosed only by (a) long history of symptoms, (b) positive family history, (c) associated symptoms of nasal allergy and severe cough (d) presence (eliciting) of symptoms of dust allergy and allergy to smoke, masala smell, pest control, etc. (e) patient's routine blood count often showing some evidence of peripheral eosinophilia.
		ECG has to be abnormal because usually a normal ECG is against the diagnosis of cardiac dyspnoea (exceptions like pericardial effusion etc.) and thus doing echo cardiography is not necessary in majority of the patients.
		It is worth remembering that all these are the causes of renal failure which is often silent and where the patient presents to the doctor for complaints of dyspnoea on exertion and the doctors can misdiagnose him as a Cardiac case.
	www.bhj.org /journal/2002_4404_oct/symp_682.htm (1186 words)

	Dyspnoea
		Dyspnoea is a common side effect of anxiety.
		Dyspnoea is "air hunger" that causes difficulty in breathing.
		Once he has given you a clean bill of health you will soon realise that it is you causing your own symptoms, and you will then find it much easier to deal with.
	www.webdesignsw.com /benzos/Dyspnea.htm (838 words)

	Tidal expiratory flow limitation, dyspnoea and exercise capacity in patients with bilateral bronchiectasis -- Koulouris ...
		Tidal expiratory flow limitation, dyspnoea and exercise capacity in patients with bilateral bronchiectasis -- Koulouris et al.
		MRC dyspnoea score is clinically useful because the latter score
		Tidal expiratory flow limitation and chronic dyspnoea in patients with cystic fibrosis.
	erj.ersjournals.com /cgi/content/full/21/5/743 (2976 words)

	Opioids for dyspnoea -- Muers 57 (11): 922 -- Thorax
		To understand, define, and treat dyspnoea is difficult.
		proportion to perceived dyspnoea (and not to the inducing load).
		The effect of chest wall vibration on dyspnoea in patients with chronic respiratory disease.
	thorax.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/57/11/922 (1642 words)

	Pneumonia - LoveToKnow Watches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The physical signs are not distinct, being mixed up with those of the antecedent bronchitis; but, should the pneumonia be extensive, there may be an impaired percussion note with tubular breathing and some bronchophony.
		Dyspnoea may be present in a marked degree; and death frequently occurs from paralysis of the heart.
		Broncho-pneumonia is a serious disease, the death-rate in children under five has been estimated at 30 to 50 %.
	www.1911ency.org /P/PN/PNEUMONIA.htm (2469 words)

	Health and Quality of Life Outcomes \| Full text \| Self-administration and interviewer-administration of the German ...
		Therefore, the aim of this study was to translate the English versions of the interviewer- and self-administered CRQ as well as the individualised and standardised dyspnoea domains into German and to validate these formats concurrently in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
		Accordingly, the standardised dyspnoea question 1 of the English CRQ ("Shortness of breath when being angry or upset") was unchanged but placed as question 3 in the German CRQ.
		Correlations with other validation measures were generally higher for the standardised dyspnoea questions compared to the individualised questions and for the self-administered compared to the interviewer-administered dyspnoea questions, respectively (table 4).
	www.hqlo.com /content/2/1/1 (3918 words)

	Dyspnoea and palliative care (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		50% of palliative care patients will have some exertional dyspnoea, which increases to 70% of patients in the last six weeks of life.
		Of those patients with dyspnoea, 75% will have some lung/ pleural involvement and 25% will not.
		Usually for dyspnoea at rest or acute severe dyspnoea.
	www.medicineau.net.au /nrdgp/news.html?NewsID=2270&Mode=Archive (611 words)

	Evidence propagation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A graphical model for the underlying process is shown in the Figure 23, where each variable is binary.
		All initial values are computed by forward sampling so no initial value file is necessary.
		The S-Plus format has been used for the data file, since these conditional probability tables are of different dimensions, and would require 4 separate data files in rectangular format.
	www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk /bugs/documentation/exampVol2/node24.html (282 words)

	Dyspnoea: clinical examination may help to determine cause.
		Dyspnoea: clinical examination may help to determine cause.
		In patients with dyspnoea, clinical examination can help determine the cause with an accuracy of between 66% and 92%.
		Clinical examination included: previous chronic obstructive lung disease, smoker, cough, previous asthma, wheezing, throat clearing, postnasal drip,, dyspnoea with exertion, orthopnoea, nocturnal dyspnoea, peripheral oedema and wheeze or crackles on physical examination.
	www.eboncall.org /CATs/1857.htm (304 words)

	POWERbreathe - hand-held inspiratory muscle trainer for anyone who breathes
		Dyspnoea is a common feature of many disorders.
		We examined differences in mean power output and dyspnoea measures (modified CR-Borg scale) under three different conditions: after a submaximal rowing warm-up (SWU), a specific rowing warm-up (RWU), and a specific rowing warm-up with the addition of a respiratory warm-up (RWUplus) protocol.
		Similarly, after the RWUplus, dyspnoea was 0.6 6 0.1 (P, 0.05) units of the Borg scale lower compared with the dyspnoea after the RWU and 0.8 6 0.2 (P, 0.05) units lower than the dyspnoea after the SWU.
	www.powerbreathe.com /research.html (1694 words)

	Symptom Control - Manual of Hospice Care and Palliative Care
		Breathlessness or dyspnoea is the unpleasant awareness of difficulty in breathing
		dyspnoea, like pain, is subjective and involves both the perception of breathlessness and the reaction of the patient to it
		dyspnoea is always associated with some degree of anxiety, which in turn will make the breathlessness worse
	www.hospicecare.com /manual/symptoms-main.html (1773 words)

	Dyspnoea in elderly people without medical history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The level of dyspnoea was correlated to the presence and level of EFL.
		However, 15% of this population had dyspnoea and EFL without medical history, suggesting that aging itself was the cause of the symptom.
		It can be assumed that an increase in vital capacity would probably reduce dyspnoea and EFL.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=31798&nfid=rssfeeds (382 words)

	paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea - General Practice Notebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea is an acute form of dyspnoea that causes the patient to awake from sleep.
		Patients with chronic airflow limitation may have similar nocturnal episodes of dyspnoea.
		Oxbridge Solutions Ltd® is an independent company owned by the authors which does not receive income from any other organisation or individual.
	www.gpnotebook.co.uk /cache/705036300.htm (138 words)

	Patients with acute exacerbations of COPD saw anxiety as a sign, rather than cause, of breathlessness -- Meek 8 (2): 61 ...
		The relation between acute dyspnoea and a patient’s physical
		of dyspnoea by how they felt and what they were able to do.
		patients by assuming that their dyspnoea is caused by their
	ebn.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/8/2/61 (748 words)

	Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled crossover trial of sustained release morphine for the management of ...
		Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled crossover trial of sustained release morphine for the management of refractory dyspnoea -- Abernethy et al.
		Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled crossover trial of sustained release morphine for the management of refractory dyspnoea
		Morphine for management of refractory dyspnoea: Opiates should be used with caution
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/abstract/327/7414/523 (470 words)

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