Sentence examples for compromised respiratory function from inspiring English sources

M. bolletii is an emerging pathogen responsible for respiratory tract infections in patients with underlying compromised respiratory function.

In these studies the enrolment of patients with only slightly compromised respiratory function may account for the absence of relevant physiological effects of NIV.

Compromised respiratory function as a consequence of impaired ATP synthesis remains the unifying biochemical defect; however the question of how different mutations, particularly those that affect the same enzyme complex, can lead to very different phenotypic presentations remains largely unexplained.

Furthermore, fragmented mitochondria of mitofusin-deficient MEFs appear partially depolarized, reflecting compromised respiratory function, whereas mitochondria of Mfn1 or Mfn2 single null MEFs appear fully polarized and only modestly shorter than normal (Chen et al, 2003; Song et al, 2007, 2015).

In people with compromised respiratory function — such as those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or cystic fibrosis — or immune systems that have been compromised by chemotherapy or AIDS, mold may cause more-severe symptoms, such as a pneumonia-like inflammation of the lungs.

"As the person gains weight, especially in the trunk and neck area, the risk of sleep-disordered breathing increases due to compromised respiratory function," say Margaret Moline, PhD, and Lauren Broch, PhD, two sleep specialists at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Patients with cervical SCI have compromised respiratory functions and require mechanical ventilation based on the location and degree of the injury, both of which also affect their success in weaning from the respirator, which approaches 40% in patients with cervical injuries above C4, with increasing success in injuries below C5 [ 50].

As a result, it can compromise respiratory function resulting in dyspnea, reduced exercise tolerance, and chest pain [ 4].

The partial obstruction of the upper airway may compromise respiratory function, [ 15- 18] with some studies showing up to a 50% increase in the work of breathing [ 16].

It is also used occasionally as palliation for painful bone metastases and for hepatomegaly from 4S disease that compromises respiratory function.

Thus, the characteristic window at 28-45 dafterfter infection seemed to represent the amount of time necessary to generate and recruit enough neutrophils into the lung to compromise respiratory function.