BACKGROUND People seek Chinese medicine (CM) treatments for a variety of respiratory disorders, e.g., asthma and upper respiratory tract infection (URTI). No previous studies have reviewed the data available in medical records from Australian clinics. This study aims to identify the characteristics of patients with respiratory disorders who visited a CM teaching clinic at RMIT University in Mel...

Spanish version There are just two decades that respiratory disorders linked to obesity began to take an important place in medical publications. Nevetheless, fiction literature has largely anticipate (once again...) science: already in 1836, Charles Dickens drew in his novel "The posthumous paper of the Pickwick Club"1 what would be, certainly, the best characterization of an obese subject wit...

The centronuclear myopathies (CNMs) are a group of inherited neuromuscular disorders classified as congenital myopathies. While several causative genes have been identified, some patients do not harbor any of the currently known mutations. These diverse disorders have common histological features, which include a high proportion of centrally nucleated muscle fibers, and clinical attributes of m...

48 GPN 2017, Vol 3, No 2 Breathing is a normal vital function which is spontaneous, regular, quiet and effortless and reflects the way that the respiratory system functions. Breathing pattern disorders or dysfunctional breathing, historically known as hyperventilation syndrome, are chronic abnormal respiratory patterns in relation to the efficiency of breathing, often resulting in dyspnoea and ...

Respiratory acidosis and alkalosis are associated with compensatory physiological changes, including extracellular and intracellular buffering, and altered renal ion handling. In clinical practice, mixed acidbase disturbances may be misdiagnosed if the expected magnitude of compensation for a primary respiratory disorder is not known. The ability to assess physiological compensation rapidly for...

This review is devoted to the distinct associations of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and chronic liver disorders with chronic airway diseases, namely chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma, and other chronic respiratory disorders in the adult population. While there is strong evidence for the association of chronic airway diseases with IBD, the data are much weaker for t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate trends in feedlot cattle mortality ratios over time, by primary body system affected, and by type of animal. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. ANIMALS Approximately 21.8 million cattle entering 121 feedlots in the United States during 1994 through 1999. PROCEDURES Yearly and monthly mortality ratios were calculated. Numbers of deaths were modeled by use of Poisson r...

We report a patient with paradoxical vocal fold motion (PVFM) due to pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration, a rare neurodegenerative disease and a subclass of neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation disorders. PVFM is marked by normal vocal fold anatomy and physiology with intermittent adduction during the respiratory cycle. Many etiologies have been reported and include laryn...

The connective tissue disorders (also called collagen vascular diseases) represent an heterogeneous group of immunologically mediated inflammatory disorders with a large variety of affected organs besides the lungs. The respiratory system may be involved in all its components: airways, vessels, parenchyma, pleura, respiratory muscles, etc. The frequency, clinical presentation, prognosis and res...

The aim of this study was to assess the percentage of respiratory disorders and airway obstruction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis by comparing lung function test results between patients with rheumatoid arthritis and control subjects with other rheumatological conditions. A prospective case-control study of respiratory symptoms and lung function abnormalities was performed in a series of...