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Managing chronic obstructive disease

Nursing Standard, 1995
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a term which encompasses a range of different conditions. This article explains the various presentations and discusses how patients should be managed.
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Aerosols in Chronic Airway Obstruction

New England Journal of Medicine, 1986
Clinicians treating chronic airway obstruction can now choose from so varied a menu of therapies that the choice often becomes bewilderingly difficult. Some connoisseurs are beginning to think that bronchodilators should be listed among the appetizers or side dishes rather than among the entrees, because bronchoconstriction is only one component of ...
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Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction

Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology, 2005
Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIP) is a gastrointestinal motility disorder characterized by chronic symptoms and signs of bowel obstruction in the absence of a fixed, lumen-occluding lesion. Radiographic findings consist of dilated bowel with air-fluid levels. Pseudo-obstruction is an uncommon condition and can result from primary or secondary
Kashyap V, Panganamamula, Henry P, Parkman   +1 more
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Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction

Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology, 2007
Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIPO) is a severe functional digestive syndrome characterised by a derangement of gut propulsive motility which resembles mechanical obstruction. It may be associated with disabling and potentially life-threatening complications. CIPO can be secondary to a variety of diseases, but it is more frequently idiopathic.
COGLIANDRO, ROSANNA FRANCESCA, DE GIORGIO, ROBERTO, BARBARA, GIOVANNI, Cogliandro L, Concordia A, CORINALDESI, ROBERTO, STANGHELLINI, VINCENZO   +6 more
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Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction

Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology, 1999
For many patients, nutritional support and relief of symptoms remain the primary management goal of pseudo-obstruction. Specific pharmacological agents for this disorder are, in general, lacking. Given that the efficacy of many of the individual available agents is far from excellent, several centers have turned to combination therapy.
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Chronic Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction

Digestive Diseases, 2000
Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIPO) is a syndrome defined by the presence of chronic intestinal dilation and dysmotility in the absence of mechanical obstruction or gross inflammatory disease. Specific diseases may affect any level of the brain-gut axis.
I, Hirano, J, Pandolfino
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Chronic obstructive sleep apnoea

Ugeskrift for Læger
Chronic obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a common disease in Denmark but is still grossly underdiagnosed. This is concerning, as OSA predisposes to serious conditions such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and early death. Awareness of OSA and identification of patients suspected of OSA is of utmost importance in order to ...
Erik Gustav, Hägerström, Eva Kirkegaard, Kiær, Therese, Ovesen, Christian, von Buchwald, Jesper, Bille, Kristian Bruun, Petersen, Poul, Jennum, Henrik, Jacobsen, Peter, Darling, Kristine, Bjørndal, Asbjørn, Kørvel-Hanquist, Thomas Qvist, Barrett, Tina Kissow, Lildal, Thomas, Kjærgaard   +13 more
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Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction

Clinical Nutrition, 1995
Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIP) is one of the four major categories into which diseases causing chronic benign intestinal failure can be classfied. 1 Patients with CIP constitute about 5% of those on home parenteral nutrition (HPN) in France, the UK and the USA.
M, Miglioli, L, Pironi
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 2016
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic smoking-related lung disease associated with significant mortality and morbidity. It carries an enormous economic burden on the health care system. This results in a significant social impact on affected patients and their families.
Yousef, Hattab, Sulaiman, Alhassan, Marvin, Balaan, Mark, Lega, Anil C, Singh   +4 more
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Nursing Standard, 2002
Chronic obstructive airways disease is a chronic, progressive disorder characterised by airways obstruction. The author discusses the management of patients with this condition, and examines the use of bronchodilator therapy, inhaled steroids, smoking cessation and pulmonary rehabilitation.
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