Abstract
Six patients who had surgical treatment for sclerosing peritonitis caused by practolol now have a respiratory disorder characterised by dyspnoea, extensive fibrotic pleural thickening, and lesions in the lung parenchyma. Respiratory disease appears to be a further feature of the practolol syndrome.
MeSH terms
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Aged
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Dyspnea / chemically induced*
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Female
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Heart Diseases / drug therapy
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Humans
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Male
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Middle Aged
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Peritonitis / chemically induced
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Pleural Diseases / chemically induced*
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Practolol / adverse effects*
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Practolol / therapeutic use
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Pulmonary Atelectasis / chemically induced*
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Sclerosis
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Syndrome