If a newborn baby fails to breathe properly, parents are in great anxiety. In this case, it is likely to be a symptom of 'newborn dyspnea syndrome', a disease that occurs mainly in premature infants ...

Research shows that in patients presenting to the emergency department with acute dyspnea, increased calprotectin was ...

Dyspnea is a condition in which a person has difficulty in breathing. Dyspnea is a medical term for shortness of breath which can be very mild at most times but in some cases it turns severe.

Initially, the dyspnea occurred only with coughing, but it slowly progressed to the point of limiting her functional capacity, despite the use of inhaled albuterol. She had no fevers, chills, or ...

Dyspnea is difficult, painful breathing or shortness of breath. Patients may use different words to describe the feeling of breathlessness; terms such as "tightness in the chest" and "suffocating ...

If dyspnea is causing anxiety (or vice versa), limiting the number of visitors in the patient’s room and playing soft music can help create a calm environment.

Overall, patients with dyspnea were older and more likely to have diabetes or chronic renal disease. Not surprisingly, patients in both treatment groups who had dyspnea during follow-up were more ...

Dyspnea is prevalent in 50% to 60% of patients with advanced cancer generally and in up to 74% of patients with lung cancer. Prevalence increases during the last 6 weeks of life and can cause ...

Although not every patient who presents with dyspnea will have coexisting heart and lung diseases, it is estimated that between 20% and 30% of patients who have HF have comorbid COPD. 3 While ...

A new analysis of the ONSET/OFFSET study with ticagrelor, which prospectively assessed the side effect of dyspnea and whether this affected cardiac and pulmonary function, provides reassurance ...

Dyspnea, whether of cardiac origin or due to exertion by a normal person, was formerly described as resulting from the accumulation in the blood of carbon dioxide, formed by the combination of ...

It may be clinically relevant that investigators identified a possible underlying mechanism for exertional dyspnea in those with long COVID, according to Jens Spiesshoefer, MD, of University ...