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Dyspnea is the second most common symptom in this range, apparently with the same etiology as chest pain.
Hey JSC: ARC Has A Centrifuge You Can Use (update) - NASA Watch 2009
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· Dyspnea: either exertional, recumbent (as in paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea), or fulminant (acute pulmonary edema).
Chapter 14 1993
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Dyspnea is usually present in tracheal foreign bodies, and is due to the bulk of the foreign body plus the subglottic swelling caused by the traumatism of the shiftings of the intruder.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Dyspnea is usually absent in bronchial foreign bodies.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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_Dyspnea_ may be present if the foreign body is large enough to compress the trachea.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Dyspnea, and croupy, barking, cough with no change in the tone or pitch of the speaking voice are characteristic signs of subglottic stenosis.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Dyspnea unrelieved by tracheotomy calls for bronchoscopic search for deeper obstruction.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Dyspnea continued to increase, and eighteen days after admission the man was in great distress, very little air entering the chest.
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Dyspnea continued to increase, and eighteen days after admission the man was in great distress, very little air entering the chest.
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Transition Dyspnea Index and the percentage of patients with improved health status
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