Sentence examples for reduced chest from inspiring English sources

Pneumoperitoneum increased the intra-abdominal pressure by 17.7 ± 3.5 mmHg, and reduced chest wall compliance significantly by 64±8%8%.

While IAH reduced chest wall compliance and increased the CVP and PAOP, it did not significantly influence the CO.

Moreover, elevated IAP and reduced chest wall compliance appear to explain components of the higher end-expiratory Pes values encountered in both positions among overweight/obese subjects [ 12].

Minor chest wall pain persisted in five of nine patients who had LVRS at the time of their follow-up assessment and may well have reduced chest wall movements during forced maneuvers.

Respiratory signs and symptoms occur frequently in individuals with achondroplasia, 59 with a number of contributing mechanisms proposed: i) reduced chest circumference with altered mechanical function, ii) upper airway obstruction, and iii) cervicomedullary compression, 54, 59, 60 or iv) a significant combination of these factors.

With respect to the effects of IAH, our results suggest that, due to reduced chest wall compliance, increased pleural and airway pressures are increasingly transmitted to the cardiac chambers, thereby reducing effective transmural pressure.

They can also reduce chest pain in heart disease patients who have angina, which is no small thing.

But while stents have been proved to reduce chest pain, they have not been shown to prolong patients' lives or help them avoid heart attacks.

That would have made the stents a blockbuster medical device, although the sales pale compared with those of coronary stents, which are implanted to reduce chest pains and, in some patients, to treat heart attacks.

Progressive scoliosis alters lung function by reducing chest wall compliance and excursion and rotating intrathoracic contents, producing an increasingly asymmetric lung size.

Our study provides arguments for reducing chest radiographs in infants with bronchiolitis.