The Second Department of General Surgery, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China This article presents the case of a 59-year-old female patient with left-sided diaphragmatic ...

A quadriplegic patient has become the first Arizonan to undergo a new medical procedure that allows him to breathe on his own. University Medical Center says one of its doctors successfully implanted ...

Introduction: Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) is a condition in which the hepatic outflow tract is obstructed. In some rare situations, abnormal diaphragmatic eventration (DE) is the main cause of BCS; ...

Portacci A, Iorillo I, Quaranta VN, et al. Diaphragm function in patients with asthma and healthy controls: A cross-sectional study. Respir Med. 2025;239:108008. doi ...

Patients with vs without diaphragmatic dysfunction had greater asthma duration and more frequent exacerbations. Patients with asthma have impaired diaphragm thickening fraction (TF) compared with ...

HSS is the #1 orthopedic hospital in the U.S. and a national leader in rheumatology. This content was created by our physicians and experts. By Edward S. Yoon, MD Basivertebral nerve ablation is a ...

You know breathing is always critical. Your body’s cells need oxygen to function, and you need to release carbon dioxide, a waste gas, through exhalation. When you run (or participate in any other ...

In patients having arthroscopic shoulder surgery who may experience diaphragmatic paresis due to comorbidities, can be treated with a low-volume local anesthetic with IV dexamethasone. In patients ...