Pulmonary Flow Rates In Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical and Health Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction: The end result of scoliosis often is severe cardiopulmonary failure occurring relatively in early adult life. This end phase of natural history of scoliosis is well studied. However scoliosis is a disease that usually begins in early life, and reports on assessment of pulmonary function in scoliosis patients is scant in India. Aims and Objectives: To study the pulmonary flow rates in individuals with asymptomatic idiopathic scoliosis and to compare the same with matched normal individuals. Materials and Methods: In this study pulmonary functions such as forced vital capacity parameters were studied in 38 individuals with Idiopathic Scoliosis in the age group of 16- 28 years. These parameters were compared with those recorded in equal number of matched apparently normal healthy individuals using student’s unpaired t test. Results: The present study noticed significantly reduced forced vital capacity parameters like (FVC) (P=0.0368), FEV1 (P=0.0384), MMEF (P=0.0205), MEF75 (P=0.0309), MEF50 (P=0.0214), MEF25 (P=0.0181), PEFR (P=0.0057), and MVV) (P=0.0036), in cases than controls. There was no significant difference in FEV1/FVC ratio (P=0.9566) in cases and controls. Conclusion: The observations of the present study are in accordance with many western studies. Thus it can be concluded that idiopathic scoliosis produces restrictive type of pulmonary defect. The important point brought out is the apparent dissociation between subjective symptom and objective evidence of pulmonary deficits in patients of this age with scoliosis. KEYWORDS: MVV, PEFR, Pulmonary flow rates, Scoliosis.
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Muniyappanavar N S, Shivayogappa S Teli, P D Dixit
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