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Hiccups and breathing in human fetuses.
Serial recording in 45 low risk fetuses throughout the second and third trimesters showed that hiccups were the predominant diaphragmatic movement before 26 weeks' gestational age and that there was a significant negative correlation with gestational age. There was a pronounced reduction between 24 and 26 weeks, which was the result of a decrease in the number of episodes of hiccups rather than...
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CASE REPORT. A 46year old man presented with a three month history of hiccup, occurring almost daily but associated only with the swallowing of solid food. It usually settled with a glass of water, the longest attack lasting almost thirty minutes. Indeed, it was this attack which precipitated his referral. On careful questioning at the time and retrospectively, he denied any dysphagia whatsoeve...
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Background. Hiccups are observed in many patients with hyponatraemia. We performed a case-control study to evaluate their association in a referral teaching hospital in South India. Methods. Fifty consecutive patients who developed hiccups during an 18-month period were studied. They were categorized according to age group and diagnosis and controls matched for age and sex were selected from pa...
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Carvedilol (6.25 mg, 4 times daily) relieved 2 years of constant hiccupping, marked tardive dyskinesia, compulsive self-induced vomiting, and feelings of hopelessness and low mood in a 59-year-old African-American man. He previously failed trials of ranitidine, chlorpromazine, promethazine, tegaserod, ondansetron, metoclopramide, pantoprazole, pyloric injections of botulinum toxin A, and a vaga...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/343420b0