Purpose. The successful use of inhaled morphine to relieve dyspnea in a patient with end-stage cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease is described. Dyspnea, the sensation of breathlessness or labored ...

prophylaxis to prevent infection or medications for palliation. Protease inhibitors, integrase inhibitors, nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) and non-NRTIs are the major components of ...

Six patients required seven reinterventions: four due to shunt obstruction or restenosis and two to delay surgery or provide palliation for patients unfit for surgery, aiding in pulmonary development.

Cardiology Department, Cardiovascular Institute, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Spain (E.F.-U., R.L.-L., S.M., X.F., J.R.-C.). Cardiology Department ...

The current pre-eminent focus in osteoarthritis research and clinical practice is on persons with established radiographic disease. This is the very end-stage of disease genesis and modern therapies ...

Opponents of assisted dying warned that there were still not enough safeguards in the bill and vowed to step up efforts to ...

PEG may also play a role in the palliation of patients with AIDS and those with various neurologic and oncologic diseases. This article provides an overview of PEG technique and applications ...

Assisted dying is set to be legalised after MPs backed a historic bill that would give some terminally ill people the right ...

Advances in proper patient selection, staging of the Fontan palliation, and modifications of the surgical technique resulted in continuous improvement of the surgical results during the past two ...

On November 12, 2024, OIG published a report concluding that the Medicare program overpaid acute-care hospitals an estimated $190 million over ...