Abstract
Dyspnea is one of the major symptoms which clinicians frequently experience, and in addition to dysphagia, dyspnea has been thought to be the most important subject of the Broncho-esophagological Society.In the present paper, measures for dyspnea in our department were described in four respects.(1) Symptoms of patients who visited the department of pneumonology in our University hospital during the past one year were analyzed and importance of dyspnea was indicated. Several cases of pulmonary cancer were refered since these were misdiagnosed as bronchial asthma due to complaint of stridor.(2) It was emphasized that psychosomatic approach was required for dyspneic patients including bronchial asthma.(3) Effectiveness of oxygen therapy at exercise was mentioned on the basis of our analysis with patients of chronic respiratory failure. Additionally, our experience of domiciliary oxygen therapy for 6 years was introduced.(4) Diminution or removal of dyspnea is frequently difficult in cases of terminal stage of lung cancer, however, we should hardly try to remove this complaint by referring to the current terminal cares in western countries.
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