Benign serous cystadenoma presenting with cough and back pain [PDF]
A 27-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 1-week history of dry cough, preceded by 1 month of nontraumatic back pain. Her heart rate was 110 beats/min, and her other vital signs, cardiac examination and respiratory examination were normal. She had an elevated body mass index (
Peter E. Wu+2 more
openaire +3 more sources
Management of musculoskeletal pain in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a review
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive, fibrotic, and fatal interstitial lung disease (ILD) of unknown etiology that primarily affects the elderly.
Svetlana Kašiković Lečić+6 more
doaj +1 more source
Background and objective Patients with pulmonary nodules are treated by minimally invasive surgery, and postoperative symptoms have become the main factors affecting patients' emotion and quality of life.
Xi CHEN+7 more
doaj +1 more source
Investigating the Temporal Relationships between Symptoms and Nebuliser Adherence in People with Cystic Fibrosis: A Series of N-of-1 Observations [PDF]
Treatment adherence in adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) is poor. One of the reasons identified for lack of adherence to nebulised treatments is that patients may not experience any immediate relief in their symptoms or notice changes as a result of ...
Arden, Madelynne+4 more
core +2 more sources
Comparing Hysteresis Comparator and RMS Threshold Methods for Automatic Single Cough Segmentations [PDF]
Research on diagnosing diseases based on voice signals currently are rapidly increasing, including cough-related diseases. When training the cough sound signals into deep learning models, it is necessary to have a standard input by segmenting several cough signals into individual cough signals.
arxiv +1 more source
Patient-controlled intravenous morphine analgesia combined with transcranial direct current stimulation for post-thoracotomy pain: A cost-effectiveness study and a feasibility for its future implementation [PDF]
This prospective randomized study aims to evaluate the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of combining transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with patient controlled intravenous morphine analgesia (PCA-IV) as part of multimodal analgesia after ...
Dragojevic-Simic, Viktorija+6 more
core +2 more sources
Ankylosing spondylitis and sarcoidosis — Coincidence or association? [PDF]
We report a 25-year-old woman presenting with sarcoidosis and bilateral sacroiliitis. Her sarcoidosis related symptoms (malaise, cough and dyspnoea) improved dramatically under treatment with steroids but severe back pain persisted.
Felten, A. von+3 more
core +1 more source
Background To investigate the feasibility, effectiveness and safety of bilateral thoracic paravertebral block (TPVB) in the post anesthesia care unit (PACU) for pain relief in participants after laparotomy. Methods A single shot of bilateral TPVB with 25
Fei Liu, HuanKai Zhang, Yunxia Zuo
doaj +1 more source
Automatic Tuberculosis and COVID-19 cough classification using deep learning [PDF]
We present a deep learning based automatic cough classifier which can discriminate tuberculosis (TB) coughs from COVID-19 coughs and healthy coughs. Both TB and COVID-19 are respiratory diseases, contagious, have cough as a predominant symptom and claim thousands of lives each year.
arxiv +1 more source
Cough-induced internal oblique hematoma
Violent or sustained cough can be associated with serious musculoskeletal complications. We report a case of a cough-induced internal oblique hematoma in an obese 73-year-old woman who was not receiving antithrombotic therapy.
Koichi Kodama+3 more
doaj +1 more source