A hiccup, or singultus, results from a sudden, simultaneous, vigorous contraction of the diaphragm and inspiratory muscles, accompanied by closure of the glottis. Hiccups can be associated with bradyarrhythmias. The mechanism of this phenomenon is likely hiccup-induced Valsalva maneuver and increased parasympathetic tone. We present a case of a patient with violent hiccups producing a bradyarrh...

Intractable hiccup most be considered as a symptom of underlying serious pathologies. We report a case of medulla oblongata cavernous angioma presented with persistent hiccup and without any improvement during routine nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic treatment regimens. The patient is under our follow up visits and surgery is very high risk for this young girl.

Data Caching is widely used to improve the performance of multimedia systems. Even though Several caching schemes have been proposed for multimedia systems, they only try to improve the cache hit ratio. Since the continuous-media servers should guarantee hiccup-free services, a high cache hit ratio alone does not capture the eeectiveness of a caching scheme. We rst show that the conventional mu...

intractable hiccup most be considered as a symptom of underlying serious pathologies. we report a case of medulla oblongata cavernous angima presented with persistant hiccup and without any improvement during routine nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic treatment regimns. the patient is under our follow up visits and surgery is very high risk for this young girl.

Twenty-four hours multichannel intraesophageal impedance and pH monitoring in a patient who suffered from recurrent hiccups for more than a year revealed frequent supragastric belching and pathological oesophageal acid exposure. Furthermore, a temporal relationship between the start of a hiccup episode and gastric belching was observed. The data support the hypothesis that there is an associati...