pulmonary heart disease/fatigue

Respiratory muscle dysfunction frequently occurs in patients with neuromuscular disorders, cardiopulmonary diseases and in patients in intensive care units. Respiratory muscle weakness and/or fatigue is responsible for dyspnoea, reduced exercise tolerance, nocturnal desaturation, and prolonged

The values obtained from the measurement of serum creatine phosphokinase (SCPK) in 70 cases of chronic cor pulmonale in exacerbation and 72 cases in remission were compared with the normal value as measured in 160 healthy adults at the same period. The results showed that the normal value of SCPK

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to explore the cancer experience of survivors with pre-existing diagnoses of heart and/or lung disease following active treatment. METHODS The Lance Armstrong Foundation recruited cancer survivors throughout the United States to complete a web-based survey to

Arginine supplementation has been shown to alleviate endothelial dysfunction and improve exercise performance through increasing nitric oxide production in patients with cardiopulmonary diseases. In addition, arginine supplementation could decrease accumulations of lactate and ammonia, metabolites

Respiratory failure results from the incompetence of the respiratory system to eliminate the CO2 produced by the metabolism and to extract the O2 from the atmosphere. Manifestations of the chronic form are: dyspnea, fatigue, headaches, oedema, polyglobulia, and also anxiety, denutrition, social

This article reviews factors that may limit exercise performance in patients with COPD. These factors include alteration in pulmonary mechanics, respiratory muscle fatigue, impairment in pulmonary gas exchange, abnormal perception of breathlessness and ventilatory control, cor pulmonale, and poor

Although the adult form of acid maltase deficiency is characterized by weakness of the limb girdle muscles, weakness of the respiratory muscles out of proportion to that of the limb muscles may make the diagnosis less obvious. We present four patients aged 35 to 57 with respiratory muscle weakness

A 46-year-old white female was admitted for decompensated cor pulmonale (CP). It had not interfered with her daily activities and she had not experienced shortness of breath, fatigue or muscle weakness prior to the onset of right heart failure. A thorough investigation revealed severe generalized

Diaphragm dysfunction accompanies cardiopulmonary disease and impaired oxygen delivery. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) regulates oxygen delivery through angiogenesis, capillary maintenance, and contraction-induced perfusion. We hypothesized that myofiber-specific VEGF deficiency

The application of recombinant DNA technology to the production of tumor necrosis factor has resulted in the availability of large quantities of a highly purified protein product. This product has been evaluated extensively in preclinical studies, which have documented a direct cytostatic and

Complement (C) activation, neutropenia, and mild pulmonary dysfunction attend hemodialysis (HD) with cellophane [for example, cuprophan (Cu)] membranes. While usually asymptomatic, these phenomena may cause distress in patients with cardiopulmonary disease, and "start-up" symptoms of HD might be

OBJECTIVE Women with large breasts have marked dose inhomogeneity and often an inferior cosmetic outcome when treated with breast conservation compared to smaller-sized patients. We designed a prone breast board, which both minimizes breast separation and irradiated lung or heart volume. We report