Heavy Breathing Hits the Heart

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Effects of Oxygen Breathing on the Heart

Oxygen breathing has been used extensively to treat a wide variety of clinical disorders. An understanding of its effects on the normal circulation, at rest and under conditions of increased cardiac output, is fundamental to the understanding of the efficacy of oxygen therapy in clinical situations. Furthermore, interpretation of physiologic data concerning the effects of hyperoxia on the regio...

An Unusually Heavy Heart

A 47-year-old female presented with worsening insidious symptoms of breathlessness and leg swelling over the last 12 months. Whilst her ECG and chest X-ray were relatively unremarkable on admission, an echocardiogram demonstrated a large-sized left atrial myxoma. This tumour was resected by the cardiac surgeons the next day, with very good postoperative results. The ensuing discussion details t...

The Effect of Breathing Exercises on Breathing Pattern of Pregnant Women

Purpose: Physiological changes during pregnancy impose numerous changes on the respiratory system that can affect the health of both mother and fetus. Regarding the importance of the normal breathing in the health of mother and fetus, this study aimed to investigate the effect of breathing exercise on breathing pattern of pregnant women.  Methods: The study population was pregnant women...

sleep-disordered breathing in a group of heart transplantation candidates

background and objective: sleep-disordered breathing (sdb) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in patients with heart failure (hf). we assessed the prevalence and the pattern of sdb in hf patients who were candidates for heart transplantation. materials and methods: twenty heart transplantation patients with ventricular ejection-fraction < 25% were recruited consecutively in a ...