BACKGROUND An attenuated or absent nocturnal decline in blood pressure has repeatedly been documented in cardiac transplant recipients. The present study was aimed at investigating the hemodynamic mechanism underlying this abnormality. METHODS AND RESULTS In 23 cardiac transplant recipients (11 to 36 months after transplantation) and in 23 control subjects matched for age and 24-hour mean art...

BACKGROUND The nocturnal enuresis is one of the most common complaints of childhood. Upper airway obstruction and nocturnal snoring affect the nocturnal enuresis in children. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of breathing exercises on the nocturnal enuresis in the children with the sleep-disordered breathing. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study was conducted in yea...

Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE) is a disorder characterised by clusters of brief motor seizures during sleep, often without surface EEG epileptiform abnormalities’“. For these reasons, the prevalence of this disorder has probably been underestimated. Moreover, in the past, many patients with clusters of nocturnal motor attacks have been diagnosed as having nocturnal paroxysmal dystonia5,...

b a ckground: the aim of the study was to evaluate and compare the efficiency and practicality of seven trappingmethods for adult phlebotominae sand flies. the results of this investigation provide information to determine the species composition and nocturnal activity pattern of different sand fly species. m e t hods: the study was carried out in both plain region (about 5km far from northeast...

Guest Comment on Nocturnal Enuresis by Dr. Ankit Mangla, MBBS, MD, FPN, Fellow critical care (IAP/ISCCM), Director & HOD Pediatric Institute of Renal Sciences Senior Consultant, PICU HOPE Hospital, Jaipur

Nocturnal asthma symptoms and impaired lung function at night are related to inflammatory activity in the peripheral lung compartment. Exhaled nitric oxide (NO) measurement at multiple exhalation flow rates can be used to separately assess alveolar and bronchial NO production and inflammation. The authors hypothesised that asthmatic patients with nocturnal symptoms have a higher alveolar NO con...

The pigeon's main source of regulated heat production, shivering, is especially likely to be used for thermoregulation during the dark phase of the day when there is little heat from locomotor activity. However, food stored in the pigeon's crop is digested during the night, and digestion-related thermogenesis (DRT) will provide heat that should decrease the need for shivering to maintain body t...

Detection of nocturnal hypoxaemia, defined as a mean arterial oxygen saturation below 90%, in normoxic or mildly hypoxic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients seems clinically relevant, since this feature may precede pulmonary hypertension. Nocturnal studies are expensive and time-consuming procedures. The current study investigates to what extent it is possible to predict noctu...