The impact of physical effort in some blood components and the level of dyspnea in patients with chest wall disease for smokers and non-smokers

Abstract EN

Chest wall disorders are a group of thoracic deformities that result in inefficient coupling between the respiratory muscles and the thoracic cage.

The disorders are usually characterized by a restrictive defect and share the potential of long term hypercapnic respiratory failure, the most common chest wall abnormality leading to respiratory failure is Thoracoplasty, Scoliosis and/or kyphoscoliosis may also cause severe respiratory failure, symptoms of respiratory failure include: dyspnoea on exertion, peripheral oedema, orthopnoea, repeated chest infections, morning headaches, fatigue, poor sleep quality and loss of appetite.

Little is known about effect physical effort on blood components and levels of dyspnea in patients with chest wall diseases, numerous studies found the effect of training in COPD and asthma patients, no one yet studied the relation between blood changes and dyspnea and effort in patients with chest wall diseases especially with smokers and non-smokers.

The researchers concluded that physical effort impacted largely on patients with chest wall diseases who smoking than patients who non-smoking and there was no significant change between two groups in WBC variation, dyspnea was high for two groups but non-smoking group was fewer, RBC was high in two groups but for non-smoking was best, in addition, researcher found that cholesterol in smoking group was higher than non-smoking group, dyspnea was also high in smoking group.