Huntington’s disease is an autosomal inherited monogenetic condition in which the mutation is an expansion of the cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG) repeat sequence at the N-terminal end of the huntingtin gene [1]. More than 40 repeats are associated with neuronal dysfunction and death, predominantly within the striatum resulting in a triad of movement, behaviour and cognitive impairment; other sym...

OBJECTIVE A literature review to examine the incorporation of respiratory assessment into everyday surgical nursing practice; possible barriers to this; and the relationship to patient outcomes. PRIMARY ARGUMENT Escalating demands on intensive care beds have led to highly dependent patients being cared for in general surgical ward areas. This change in patient demographics has meant the knowl...

BACKGROUND Physical assessment of breathing is an important component of physical therapy evaluations. However, there are no standardized reference values of breathing movements available for use in clinical practice. The purpose of this study was to determine the 3-dimensional distances of observational points on the thorax and abdomen during breathing in healthy subjects and to assess the ef...

The purpose of this work is to compare gas movement through potato tuber tissue with the respiratory rate of such tissue and to assess possible oxygen deficiency as a factor in the limitation of respiration within the tissue. Argon 37 was used as a substitute for oxygen in most of the gas transfer experiments because it is easier to measure, its solubilities and diffusion coefficients are very ...

Introduction / objectives Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) claim on average 90,000 lives each year in the U.S., nearly three times the number of annual highway deaths. Although fewer than 15% of HAIs are directly attributable to airborne transmission, more than a third may be caused by surface microbes aerosolized by the movement of air from building systems, people and equipment. As a resul...

c. Cleaning, humidification and heating: the mucociliary system contributes these characteristics thanks to three components that are the mucus, the ciliary movement and the periciliary fluid that through a movement of 10 to 15 shakes / second renew the mucus present in the respiratory mucosa in an estimated time of 10-15 minutes, in order to carry bacteria and particles present in the inhaled ...

PURPOSE To evaluate respiratory motion of a patient by generating four-dimensional digital tomosynthesis (4D DTS), extracting respiratory signal from patients' on-board projection data, and ensuring the feasibility of 4D DTS as a localization tool for the targets which have respiratory movement. METHODS AND MATERIALS Four patients with lung and liver cancer were included to verify the feasibi...

BACKGROUND PM2.5 is an important factor to affect the patients with respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Clinical studies have found that the morbidity and mortality of patients with heart failure (HF) have a close relationship with the movement and deposition state of PM2.5. One reason is that the breathing pattern of patients with HF has obvious difference with healthy people, however the...