Medicine:Bendopnea
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| Bendopnea can occur in patients with heart failure when they bend over, such as when tying their shoes. | |
| Differential diagnosis | heart failure |
Bendopnea is a newly described symptom, normally of heart failure, meaning shortness of breath felt when leaning forward.[1][2][3][4][5] It was introduced by Thibodeau et al. in 2014.[1][2] Patients with heart failure often experience this when bending over to tie a shoe, putting socks on, or other activities requiring bending downwards.[1][2] It has been defined as occurring within 30 seconds of bending over, but could occur in as few as 8 seconds in severe cases.[3] When a patient is in heart failure, it often means the ventricular filling pressures are high at baseline.[1][2] When said person bends forward, it causes a further increase in ventricular filling pressures that causes dyspnea, especially in patients with lower cardiac indices.[1][2]
The term "bendopnea" (meaning "bent" and "breath") was coined to be easily identifiable among patients and physicians.[3] It is analogous to the various other -pnea-suffixed words used in medicine.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Thibodeau, Jennifer T.; Turer, Aslan T.; Gualano, Sarah K.; Ayers, Colby R.; Velez-Martinez, Mariella; Mishkin, Joseph D.; Patel, Parag C.; Mammen, Pradeep P.A. et al. (2014). "Characterization of a Novel Symptom of Advanced Heart Failure: Bendopnea". JACC: Heart Failure 2 (1): 24–31. doi:10.1016/j.jchf.2013.07.009. ISSN 2213-1779. PMID 24622115.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "'Bendopnea': A New Symptom to Help Spot Sicker HF Patients?". 2014-04-14. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/822460.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Rice, Sabriya (2014-03-20). "'Bendopnea' identified as heart failure symptom". http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140320/blog/303209945.
- ↑ "Cardiologists define new heart failure symptom: Shortness of breath while bending over: March 18, 2014 News Releases". 2014-03-18. http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/news-releases/year-2014/march/thibodeau-bendopnea.html.
- ↑ "Bendopnea — What Is It and What's Its Significance?". 2014-05-15. http://www.ahcmedia.com/articles/110606-bendopnea-8212-what-is-it-and-what-8217-s-its-significance.
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