the shortness of breath caused by lying flat on one's back
Examples of 'orthopnoea' in a sentence
orthopnoea
She had no orthopnoea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea or ankle swelling.
Ihab S Ramzy, Alina Hua 2014, 'Myocardial Crypts: An incidental fi nding in a symptomatic patient with raised troponin',International Cardiovascular Forum Journalhttp://icfjournal.org/index.php/icfj/article/view/55/78. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Three weeks before admission, the patient developed asthenia, orthopnoea and progressive dyspnoea.
Guillermo Ropero-Luis, Francisco Páez-Codeso, Ricardo Gómez-Huelgas 2019, 'Do Bilateral Pleural Effusions Always Have the Same Cause?', European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicinehttps://www.ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/1074. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Breathlessness was the most common presentation followed by pedal oedema, orthopnoea, etc.
Chandrakala Guruprasad Yelwanti, Venkatesh Amalappa Desai 2016, 'A STUDY ON CLINICAL AND AETIOLOGICAL PROFILE OF HEART FAILURE AT KBN TEACHING ANDGENERAL HOSPITAL', Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcarehttp://www.jebmh.com/data_pdf/Chandrakala---FINAL.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A 62-year-old man with asthma sought care for intermittent fever, cough with expectoration, breathlessness and orthopnoea with grunting.
R. Dawar, D. Nagarjuna, R. Gupta, N.P. Ghonge, R. Sardana 2016, 'Actinobacillus ureae: an unusual cause of tree-in-bud pattern in a case of pneumoniaon lung computed tomographic scan—first clinical case report and review of the literaturefrom India', new microbes and new infectionshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297516300956. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)