English |
restrictive-obstructive lung syndrome |
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Attestation |
3
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Part of speech |
Noun syntagm
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Grammatical label |
Countable
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Variant |
Restrictive-obstructive lung disease, restrictive-obstructive lung function defect
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Definition |
This is any respiratory condition where the patient is unable to take in a full, deep breath. It can be due to lung, chest cage, or nervous system disease. Once air is inhaled, there is also a difficulty in getting all the air out. Asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema are examples of restrictive-obstructive lung syndrome. As a group, restrictive-obstructive lung diseases are the greatest cause of respiratory morbidity in the United States.
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Definition source |
E-Medicine - Instant Access to the Minds of Medicine.
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Context |
Although a mixed restrictive-obstructive lung function defect has been described in thalassaemics, its presence does not correlate with arterial hypoxaemia. In fact, even the presence of a clinically significant lung function abnormality is disputed by some authors who claim that inappropriate normal ranges have been used in other studies. However, it is likely that abnormalities of the chest wall bones, recurrent respiratory tract infection, and even extramedullary sites of haemopoiesis in the chest may all combine to cause a lung function d
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Context source |
Mohamed, N. & Jackson, N. (1998). ‘Severe thalassemia intermedia: clinical problems in the absence of hypertransfusion’. Blood Reviews 12(3):163-70. (RISCEN83)
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Subject field |
Haemopoiesis
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Sub-field (level 1) |
Thalassemias
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Sub-field (level 2) |
Therapies
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Coordinate concept |
Hyperkeratosis, jaundice, hepatomegaly, oral sicca, cardiac tamponade
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Related concept |
Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, follow-up
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it |
Sindrome polmonare ostruttivo-restrittiva
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Reliability code |
3
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