Daytime complaints like fatigue, sleepiness and cognitive dysfunction in neuromuscular disease can be due to nocturnal hypercapnia and hypoxemia. Daytime respiratory diagnostics does not reflect sleep disordered breathing. Nocturnal pulse oxymetry and capnography were performed in 11 patients (15-75 years old) with different slowly progressive neuromuscular diseases. Only four patients complain...

background several studies have been carried out to evaluate the effects of dialysis on o2 saturation. while the dialysis procedure may lead to hypoxia under different circumstances, there are few studies available on the effects of membrane type on o2 saturation in these patients. objectives this study was to appraise the effects of high and low flux membrane on pulse oxymetery in dialysis pat...

background: pulmonary arterial hypertension is a complication of most congenital heart diseases. we sought to assess the effect of sildenafil on patients suffering from pulmonary arterial hypertension in association with congenital heart disease on the basis of clinical and echocardiographic parameters and compare the catheterization and treatment results so as to evaluate the predictive value ...

Materials and methods Were analyzed 1521 colonoscopies performed in last two years, from January 2007 to September 2008, in our Unit of Digestive Endoscopy. Two hundred ninety two pts (19.2%) had age ≥70 years. The indications, colonoscopy completion rate, endoscopic findings, complications and therapeutic consequences were evaluated. Sedation was used in all pts with midazolam (2–2.5 mg) and F...