Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine

Gokhan Kandemir

Publications

• Research Article
  An Evaluation of Chronic Dyspnea in a Chest Disease Clinic
  Author(s): Aziz Gumus, Halit Cinarka, Servet Kayhan, Murtaza Emre Durakoglugil, Erkan Cure, Muge Hazıroglu, Gokhan Kandemir and Unal SahinAziz Gumus, Halit Cinarka, Servet Kayhan, Murtaza Emre Durakoglugil, Erkan Cure, Muge Hazıroglu, Gokhan Kandemir and Unal Sahin
  
  Chronic dyspnea is a frequent cause of applications to pulmonology clinics. Cardiopulmonary diseases represent the most frequent etiological causes of dyspnea. However, studies on this subject are limited. The purpose of this study is to determine the etiological causes in patients who admitted to outpatient clinic with the complaint of chronic dyspnea via specific diagnostic procedures. This prospectively planned study was performed with patients referred to chest disease clinic of Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Turkey, between 1 July 2012 and 31 May 2013. Patients with a history of shortness of breath that was ongoing more than 1 month were included to study. Causes of dyspnea were investigated by using a 3-stage diagnostic procedure. Four hundred seventy-one patients were enrolled. Specific etiology of dyspnea was identified in 462 patients. The other nine patients could not be d.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-105X.1000173

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