ALLMedicine™ Dyspnea Center

Mar 28th, 2023 - Symptom burden in adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer is poorly characterized but impacts quality of life. All Ontario, Canada AYA aged 15-29 years at diagnosis between 2010 and 2018 were linked to population-based healthcare databases,...

Mar 27th, 2023 - Venous thromboembolism (VTE) are rare but serious complications after foot and ankle fracture surgery. A consensus definition of a high-risk patient has not been reached, leading to significant variability in the use of pharmacologic agents for VT...

Mar 27th, 2023 - The rationale for additional treatment with short-acting bronchodilators combined with long-acting bronchodilators for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is not adequately studied. We conducted a systematic review and meta-...

Mar 26th, 2023 - Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. However, the relation between congenital heart defects and the predisposition to AF is not fully understood. A 65-year-old male was admitted into the emergency department due to progr...

Mar 26th, 2023 - Subjective illness perception (IP) can differ from physician's clinical assessment results. Herein, we explored patient's IP during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) recovery. Participants of the prospective observation CovILD study (ClinicalTri...

Mar 24th, 2023 - Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is one of the most common forms of heart failure; its prevalence is increasing, and outcomes are worsening. Affected patients often experience severe exertional dyspnea and debilitating fatigu...

Sep 7th, 2022 - Postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2, sometimes called long COVID, are defined as signs and symptoms consistent with COVID-19 that extend beyond 4 weeks from onset of infection and constitute an emerging health issue.1 Common symptoms of post–COVID-19...

May 14th, 2022 - Dyspnea is the symptom of perceived breathing discomfort and is commonly encountered in a variety of clinical settings. Cardiac etiologies of dyspnea are an important consideration; among these, valvular heart disease (Variant 1), arrhythmia (Vari...

Feb 5th, 2022 - Know Your Guidelines 2022 Series: The ASCO Management of Dyspnea in Advanced Cancer Guideline Review.|2022|Jackson CD,Schilthuis AJ,Guice KC,Payne KS,Dabal TD,|etiology,therapy,complications,therapy,methods,organization & administration,trends,

Apr 27th, 2021 - The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to provide clinical recommendations on the appropriate use of point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) in patients with acute dyspnea in emergency department (ED) or inpatient settings...

Mar 23rd, 2023 - Overtesting for Acute Coronary Syndrome(ACS) and Pulmonary Embolism (PE) in low risk Emergency Department(ED) patients can increase exposure of nondiseased patients to radiation, intravenous contrast and anticoagulation. This project addresses que...

Mar 22nd, 2023 - Adult (>18 years old), advanced heart failure NYHA Class III with dyspnea upon mild physical activity or Class IV patients who are refractory to advanced heart failure management and meet study Inclusion/Exclusion criteria will be enrolled. The ob...

Mar 22nd, 2023 - A breach of respiratory function may be one of the elements more or less early or predominant clinical picture of neuromuscular diseases. It is considered that the obstructive syndromes represent 64% and restrictive or mixed syndromes 36% of chron...

Mar 20th, 2023 - Rationale: Postoperative anemia is common in cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. Iron deficiency delays the recovery from postoperative anemia and may negatively affect the postoperative trajectory of cardiac surgery patients. Objective: ...

Mar 16th, 2023 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To estimate the percentage of patients experiencing a decrease in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 10 percent from baseline or decrease in LVEF below the normal limit of 50% during treatment with dexrazoxane (dex...

Mar 21st, 2023 - In an experimental medicine study of D-cycloserine given during chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) rehabilitation, only models including brain imaging markers of breathlessness-expectation successfully predicted Dyspnea-12 score improvem.

Mar 10th, 2023 - The history and findings in this case are suggestive of eosinophilic asthma. Asthma is a common, chronic, and heterogeneous respiratory disease, most often characterized by chronic airway inflammation.

Mar 10th, 2023 - Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution was associated with an increased risk of long COVID among young adults, according to a Swedish population-based cohort study. For each increase in interquartile range (IQR) in exposure to particulate mat...

Mar 7th, 2023 - THE CASE A 44-year-old man with a history of morbid obesity reestablished care in our clinic. He had been treated in our health care system about 5 years previously, and prior lab testing showed a total cholesterol of 203 mg/dL; triglycerides, 191.

Mar 6th, 2023 - Hospital patients discharged after severe SARS-CoV-2 infection followed one of three cognitive trajectories, longitudinal data showed. Of 946 severe COVID patients age 50 and older with no previous dementia or memory complaints, 69.0% had no cogni...