Some extend the definition to include developmental, functional, or visual disabilities that require ongoing care or management. An acute or chronic diagnosis is not necessarily fixed. An acute ...

At this point, I would pause to consider other diagnostic possibilities. The differential diagnosis of acute dyspnea is extensive in a patient of this age with known systolic heart failure ...

dyspnea and edema were noted. Tolvaptan may be a useful adjunctive therapy for acute decompensated heart failure given its aquaretic properties, relatively safe side-effect profile and absence of ...

Background: Heart failure (HF) manifests with burdensome symptoms leading to frequent emergency department (ED) visits and high rates of poor outcomes and mortality. Dyspnea is a nonspecific chief ...

Although it can remain quiescent for extended time periods, the inflammatory and remodeling processes affect the bronchial milieu and predispose to acute ... relevant definition of an asthma ...

Acute inflammation is a short-term process occurring in response to tissue injury, usually appearing within minutes or hours. It is characterized by five cardinal signs: pain, redness, immobility ...

Methods A prospective observational cohort study of patients admitted with an acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD ... Mean (95%CI) FEV1% predicted and MRC dyspnoea score were 46 (34–67) and 4 (3–5) ...

What is the PIER approach? The new PIER approach will enable the effective management of acute physical deterioration in health and care and will apply to all conditions, clinical settings and ...

Objectives: Patients with sepsis are often comorbid with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and the phenotypic characteristics of pulmonary and non-pulmonary infections leading to ARDS are ...

While the Covid-19 pandemic might be officially over, its lingering effects, known as long Covid, continue to pose serious ...

This aim of this study was to investigate the outcome of patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) and coexistent SARS-CoV-2 infection ... The predominant symptoms, apart from abdominal pain, in those ...

She presented with dyspnoea without cyanosis, oxygen saturation of 70%, methemoglobin concentration of 32.2% in arterial blood gas analysis and haemoglobin of 5 g/dL. This condition was identified and ...