Mitral Stenosis Berat pada Penyakit Jantung Rematik by Cokorda Istri Padmi Suwari, Widyawati Desak Gede

“…The patient complains of shortness of breath when walking long distances and doing strenuous activities. …”
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Legionnaires' Disease with Facial Nerve Palsy by Shailesh R. Basani, Salwa Mohamed Ahmed, Eyassu Habte-Gabr

“…We report a patient with Legionella pneumonia associated with cerebellar dysfunction and unilateral facial nerve weakness. 51-year-old previously healthy male presented with shortness of breath, cough, slurred speech, and unsteadiness on feet associated with malaise, fevers and myalgias. …”
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Diffuse panbronchiolitis as a rare complication of thymectomy and radiation therapy in a patient with thymoma: a case report by Ye Lu, Qi Qi, Dan Qu, Yu Chen

“…The patient’s respiratory symptoms, including cough, expectoration, and shortness of breath, worsened significantly after radiation treatment. …”
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Pregnancy-related chronic type A aortic dissection highlights the importance of thorough prenatal maternal examination by Cristina M. Șulea, Anna B. Kiss, Bence Ágg, Kálmán Benke, Elektra Bartha, Bálint Szilveszter, Roland Stengl, Máté Csonka, Zoltán Szabolcs, Miklós Pólos

“…Case presentation A 32-year-old pregnant woman at 31 weeks of gestation began experiencing shortness of breath, chest pain, and palpitations, which were attributed to an anxiety disorder she had been previously diagnosed with. …”
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Flunisolide Decreases Exhaled Nitric Oxide and Nitrotyrosine Levels in Asthmatic Children by A. Bodini, D. G. Peroni, F. Zardini, M. Corradi, R. Alinovi, A. L. Boner, G. L. Piacentini

“…The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of inhaled steroid treatment on nitrotyrosine levels collected by exhaled breath condensate (EBC) and on FeNO. Methods. This was a single-blind placebo-controlled study. …”
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Freestanding VO2 membranes on epidermal nanomesh for ultra-sensitive correlated breathable sensors by Dongha Kim, Dongju Lee, Jiseok Park, Jihoon Bae, Aiping Chen, Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll, Sungwon Lee, Shinbuhm Lee

“…The resistance of the VO2 membranes is reversibly tuned by human’s tiny mechanical stimuli and breath stimuli. The stimuli modulate the Peierls dimerization of one-dimensional V−V chains in the VO2 lattice which concomitantly controls the electron correlation and hence resistivity. …”
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Humidification Performance of Heat and Moisture Exchangers for Pediatric Use by Yusuke Chikata, Chihiro Sumida, Jun Oto, Hideaki Imanaka, Masaji Nishimura

“…We tested ten pediatric HMEs when mechanically ventilating a model lung at respiratory rates of 20 and 30 breaths/min and pressure control of 10, 15, and 20 cmH2O. …”
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Leveraging Real-World Evidence to Define Severe RSV Lower Respiratory Tract Disease in Adults by Catherine A. Panozzo, Edward E. Walsh, Zhen Yang, Eleanor Wilson, Jaya Goswami, Sonia K. Stoszek, Adrianna Loback, Tony Ng, Beverly M. Francis, Alana K. Simorellis, Wenmei Huang, Linwei Li, Rebecca Vislay-Wade, Zhe Zheng, Evan J. Anderson, Allison August, Grace Chen, Ann R. Falsey

“…RSV-LRTD signs/symptoms assessed included shortness of breath (dyspnea), cough and/or fever, wheezing/rales/rhonchi (abnormal lung sounds by auscultation), sputum production, tachypnea, hypoxemia, and pleuritic chest pain. …”
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Thoracic Complications in Behçet’s Disease: Imaging Findings by Kemal Ödev, Recep Tunç, Salih Varol, Harun Aydemir, Pınar Didem Yılmaz, Celalettin Korkmaz

“…These radiologic methods have characteristics that are complementary to each other in diagnosis of the thoracic complications in BD. 3D ultrashort echo time (UTE) MR imaging (MRI) could potentially yield superior image quality for pulmonary vessels and lung parenchyma when compared with breath-hold 3D MR angiography.…”
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The effect of Clostridium difficile infection on the course of liver cirrhosis by A. A. Driga, M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin

“…All patients underwent clinical interviewing with assessment of past history, daily blood pressure (BP) measurement with calculation of the mean blood pressure level, blood tests, ECG, abdominal ultrasound, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, echocardiography, chest X-ray, lactulose hydrogen breath test, Clostridium difficile ELISA stool test. …”
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A Rare Manifestation of Asymptomatic Ebstein’s Anomaly with Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis by Carmel Moazez, Vicken Zeitjian, Christian Breburda, Ranjini Roy

“…Our patient is a 43-year-old male with a history of intravenous heroin abuse who presented to the emergency department with worsening shortness of breath and lower extremity edema. He denied any prior cardiac history. …”
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Bilateral Chylothorax as a Unique Presentation of Pancreaticobiliary or Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer by Nooraldin Merza, John Lung, Mazin Saadaldin, Tarek Naguib

“…Here we present a case of a 66-year-old male who came in with cough and shortness of breath for few weeks. A week earlier, at an ED visit, he was diagnosed with pneumonia based on CT angiogram of the chest without contrast that showed bilateral pleural effusion and bilateral pulmonary infiltrates. …”
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Agranulocytosis Associated with Topiramate: A Case Report and Review of Published Cases by Saroj Lohani, Niranjan Tachamo, Salik Nazir, Anthony Donato

“…A 41-year-old female presented to the hospital with sore throat and shortness of breath. She was hypoxic with an oxygen saturation of 87% in room air. …”
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A Patient with a Right Atrium Mass and Congenital Heart Disease: A Challenging Diagnosis of a Stubborn Disease by Wenyan Wang, Huaicong Long, Zhiying Zhao

“…A 68-year-old Chinese male with a second patent foramen ovale (PFO) and an interventricular septal defect presented at our institute with persistent fever, shortness of breath, repeated paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) attack, and rapidly progressing superior vena cava syndrome. …”
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Tuberculous Enteritis: A Rare Complication of Miliary Tuberculosis by Danisha Figueroa, Nilmarie Guzman, Carmen Isache

“…A 47-year-old homosexual male from Philippines with no significant medical history presented with productive cough, night sweats, subjective fevers, shortness of breath, watery diarrhea, and 25-pound weight loss in past one year. …”
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Lactose Malabsorption and Lactose Intolerance in Children with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases by Martyna Jasielska, Urszula Grzybowska-Chlebowczyk

“…We analysed the result of the hydrogen breath test with lactose loading, two single nucleotide polymorphisms of the LCT gene (LCT-13910CC and LCT-22018GG). …”
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Smoke or no Smoke? Questions of Perspective in North and South by Mary Debrabant

“…Acknowledging interdependence and improving personal relationships (“the very breath of life”) is more vital than wholesome, unpolluted air.…”
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RUSSIA FOREIGN MINISTRY AND THE STATE DUMA DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR by S. I. Chernyavskiy

“…The February Revolution of 1917 breathed new strength into the political struggle unfolding in Russia, it forced many conservative oriented public administrators to support the efforts of the MPs to establish a republican form of government. …”
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Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum due to Anti-Melanoma Differentiation-Associated Protein 5 Requiring a Bilateral Lung Transplant by Amrit Singh Jhajj, James Hok Shun Yeung, Fergus To

“…A year later, the patient presented with progressive shortness of breath, widespread macular erythematous facial rash, and new erythematous ulcerations over the fingertips. …”
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De Jane Eyre à Shirley : une représentation des éléments transformée par les bouleversements sociaux ? by Élise Ouvrard

“…Besides the industrial background has consequences on the water and above all on the air which is polluted by the factories and their chimneys (« Stilbro’ smoke atmosphere ») ; Robert Moore easily puts up with this tainted atmosphere, however it is quite revealing that Caroline finds it hard to breathe (« complained of want of air »). In spite of the major changes, the representation of the four elements in Shirley bears a likeness to that in Jane Eyre as can be observed with the description of some characters and of their emotions although the stress on the opposition between fire and ice is less striking. …”
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