Large Uterine Fibroids in Pregnancy with Successful Caesarean Myomectomy by Edu Eyong, Okon A. Okon

“…She developed generalized body weakness, backache, and breathlessness at 27 weeks gestation. Thus, she was admitted and managed conservatively for eight weeks with significant relief of symptoms. …”
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Rare cause of chronic cough in a young healthcare worker - A case of exogenous lipoid pneumonia! by Nandini Dikshit, Mansi Gupta, Neha Nigam, Alok Nath

“…Clinically, patients present with subacute to chronic-onset non-specific symptoms such as cough, fever, breathlessness, and general malaise. In addition, lobar or multifocal interstitial and parenchymal infiltrates on chest imaging can mimic any other infectious etiology. …”
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Surviving All Odds: A Unique Case of Multiple Congenital Unruptured Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysms Involving Both Left and Right Coronary Sinuses with Biventricular Dysfunction and He... by Aniketh Vijay B, Vikrant Vijan, Navin Mathew

“…We report a case of 27-year-old male with a history of exertional breathlessness of one-month duration. After complete evaluation using transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and multiple detector computed tomography (MDCT) scanning, the patient was diagnosed to have large congenital unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysms involving both left and right coronary sinuses with extension into the interventricular septum. …”
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Air pollution and health in Eastern India: Findings from a primary survey conducted in West Bengal and Jharkhand by Arup Halder, Aditi Kundu, Arunava Ghoshal

“…Lower respiratory symptoms (cough, chest discomfort, breathlessness) primarily increase with age and were the highest in the old age group (61 years and above). …”
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A Challenging Case of Miliary Tuberculosis in Pregnancy by Anuja Singh, Farha Siddiqui, Anand Kumar Maurya, Shashank Purwar, Saurabh Saigal

“…This case study describes a 22-year-old pregnant female at 23 weeks of gestation presented with breathlessness, fever accompanied by chills, dry cough, and loss of appetite. …”
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A narrative review of proactive palliative care models for people with COPD by Amy Pascoe, Xinye Chen, Natasha Smallwood

“…People living with COPD, as well as the people who care for them, frequently have severe and unmet physical and psychosocial needs, including breathlessness, fatigue, cough, anxiety and depression. …”
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Oxygen Saturation and Perceived Discomfort with Different Face Masks among Dental Professionals – A Cross-sectional Study by Prarthana Manoharan, Lalithambigai Gunasekaran, Girish R. Shavi, Shankar Shanmugam, Senthil Kumar Sennan

“…Results: The result obtained shows that the majority were using surgical reusable masks, without proper maintenance and disposal, with associated discomfort and breathlessness after wearing them for 6 h a day. While comparing the individual’s oxygen saturation levels, <95 saturation was highly correlated with N95 mask wearers, using more than 6 h/day. …”
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Incidence of new-onset bronchial asthma in post-COVID patients with persistent respiratory symptoms by Priyanka Singh, Amit Singh Vasan, Nitin Balram Ahuja, Robin Choudhary, Kunal Kumar, Sandeep Rana

“…All patients on follow-up who reported with airway symptoms (cough, wheezing, breathlessness, or chest tightness) with no prior diagnosed obstructive/restrictive airway disease were included in the study and followed up for a duration of 01 years. …”
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Scrub Typhus Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia: A Rare Case Report by Maharshi Patel, Sourya Acharya, Samarth Shukla, Shubham Nimkar, Sunil Kumar

“…A 50-year-old male patient was admitted with a complaint of fever, cough, breathlessness, and irrelevant talk for five days. The patient was chronic alcoholic and hypertensive for one year. …”
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Assessment and follow-up of interstitial lung disease by Devarasetti Phani Kumar

“…Patients with suspected interstitial lung disease (ILD) clinically presenting with cough and breathlessness are initially investigated with a chest radiograph and spirometry. …”
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Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis following enteric fever: A rare autopsy case report by Gwendolyn Fernandes, Pooja Mhashete, Pranav Pramod Patwardhan

“…Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a severe and frequently underdiagnosed disorder of systemic immune dysregulation resulting in hypercytokinemia and histologically evident hemophagocytosis, We report a case of a 34-year-old man who presented with breathlessness, generalized weakness, and fever of unknown origin with pancytopenia. …”
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Surgical treatment of ventricular septal defect combined with tricuspid valve insufficiency by L. Maniuc

“…After operation the clinic status improved significantly: breathlessness reduced from 91.7 % to 8.3 % cases, tachycardia reduced from 91.7 % to 33.3 % cases and other cardiac failure symptoms – from 10.8 % to 4.2 % cases. …”
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“I Am Afraid of Positioning my Baby in Prone”: Beliefs and Knowledge about Tummy Time Practice by Bianca Fernandes Vasconcelos e Silva, Sabrinne Suelen Santos Sampaio, Julia Raffin Moura, Cléa Emanuela Barreto de Medeiros, Carolina Daniel de Lima-Alvarez, Camila Rocha Simão, Ingrid Guerra Azevedo, Silvana Alves Pereira

“…Most of the families feel insecure about proning their babies and fear breathlessness when positioned. Acquisition of motor milestones prevailed in the TT group, suggesting an association between TT practice and motor milestone achievement.…”
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Miliary Tuberculosis in Immunocompromised Patient Induced by Imatinib and Steroid by Randa Fermada, Fauzar Fauzar, Roza Kurniati, Irza Wahid

“…It has been reported a 33 years old male patient was admitted to the hospital due to breathlessness, chronic coughing, fever, anorexia, weight loss and night sweating with a "damp shadow sign".  …”
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Prevalence of Occupational Asthma and Respiratory Symptoms in Foundry Workers by Servet Kayhan, Umit Tutar, Halit Cinarka, Aziz Gumus, Nurhan Koksal

“…The other symptoms were breathlessness (n: 28, 8.06%), chest tightness (n: 14, 4.03%), and wheezing (n: 7, 2.01%) . …”
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E-cigarettes are not associated with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome among US adults by Shahryar Rajai Firouzabadi, Ida Mohammadi, Mohammadreza Alinejadfard, Arman Shafiee

“…Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many survivors experiencing post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PCS) with symptoms including fatigue, breathlessness, and cognitive complaints. E-cigarette use has already been associated with increased susceptibility to COVID-19 because of its effects on ACE2 receptor expression and inflammation, raising concern that it might worsen the long-term outcomes of COVID-19, including PCS. …”
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Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Cardiac Lupus: A Retrospective Study by K Maria Koshy, Tarun George, Sohini Das, J V Punitha, Sudha Jasmine Rajan, Bijesh Yadav, Thambu David Sudarsanam, Vijay Prakash Turaka

“…The patients were predominantly female (86.4%), fever and breathlessness were most common symptoms and the median SLE disease activity index score was 18. …”
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Long-term functioning status of COVID-19 survivors: a prospective observational evaluation of a cohort of patients surviving hospitalisation by Linamara Rizzo Battistella, Felipe Fregni, Marta Imamura, Vinicius Delgado Ramos, Lucas Ramos De Pretto, Simon K H A A Van Cauwenbergh, Sabrina Saemy Tome Uchiyama, Denise Matheus, Flavia Kuhn, Ana Alice Amaral de Oliveira, Gabriella Souza Naves, Aline Rossetti Mirisola, Fernando de Quadros Ribeiro, Andre Tadeu Sugawara, Mauricio Cantarino, Rafael Andrade Santos Antunes Cavalca, Vanessa Pagano, Melina Valentim Marques, Elizabeth Mendes da Silva, Alessandra Pereira Gomes

“…They also reported pain and discomfort (64.50%, 516 of 800), breathlessness (64.66%, 514 of 795), and anxiety and depression (57.27%, 457 of 798). …”
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Exploring the most important factors related to self-perceived health among older men in Sweden: a cross-sectional study using machine learning by David C Currow, Magnus Per Ekström, Max Olsson

“…Importance of factors was measured in SHapley Additive exPlanations absolute mean and higher scores correspond to greater importance.Results The most important factors for classifying self-perceived health were: pain (0.629), sleep quality (0.595), breathlessness (0.549), fatigue (0.542) and depression (0.526). …”
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Airway clearance technique therapy for atelectasis induced by scoliosis surgery: a case report by Rui Zhai, Hairong Su, Yaxu Wu, Rong Tan, Xiaoli Zhang, Ye Tian, Mei Hu

“…Despite receiving medication for expectoration, postoperative symptoms including chest tightness, breathlessness, and ineffective coughing persisted and progressively worsened. …”
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