Abdominal and thoracic pressures during defaecation.

Intra-abdominal Pressures during Voluntary and Reflex Cough

BACKGROUND Involuntary coughing such as that evoked from the larynx, the laryngeal cough reflex (LCR), triggers a coordinated contraction of the thoracic, abdominal and pelvic muscles, which increases intra-abdominal pressure (IAP), displaces the diaphragm upwards and generates the expiratory force for cough and airway clearance. Changes in the IAP during voluntary cough (VC) and the LCR can be...

Thoracic, Thoraco-abdominal, and Abdominal Duplication.

Christine G. aged 8 years was admitted to this unit for elective thoracotomy for a bi-lobed right-sided posterior mediastinal lesion. At the age of 7 months she had been admitted to another hospital with profuse melaena. On 1 May 1956 laparotomy revealed a small bowel duplication 50 cm. in length, terminating distally in what appeared to be a Meckel's diverticulum. At the base of the diverticul...

Thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Aneurysms of the aorta are at times evaluated and treated by physicians from a number of specialties. Indeed, whereas cardiac surgeons operate on the ascending aorta and arch and vascular surgeons manage abdominal aortic aneurysms, at present the responsibility often falls to cardiologists to oversee the medical care of patients with aortic disease of all types. However, although formally train...

Abdominal Pain during Pregnancy

بیشتر زنان حامله بدلیل تغییرات معده و روده در دوران حاملگی دچار دردشکم می شوند. انتظار می رود که تهوع، سوزش سردل و یبوست وجود داشته باشد و بعنوان رویدادهای مشخصی دوران حاملگی در نظر گرفته شوند. دردهای شکمی می توانند بدخیم و مشکل ساز باشند. درد پهلو با بالای شکم می تواند نشان دهنده آپاندیسیت یا کله سیستیت که دو علت شایع برای عمل جراحی شکم در زنان حامله می باشند با نشان دهنده اتساع بیش از حد حال...

[Thoracic and abdominal injuries in childhood].