Study of Different Spirometric Parameters in Patients of Neurotic Disorder with Dyspnoea
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Respiratory Distress, Neurotic disorder, Spirometric parameters, Lung diseases, Depression.Abstract
Background: The number of neurotic disorder patient, who have respiratory distress is very high, that can be due to obstructive or restrictive lung disease. Spirometry is a good tool for the diagnosis of obstructive and restrictive lung disease. Depending on spirometric parameters, different lung diseases can be diagnosed.
Method: 139 patients of age group 18years- 60years, of any gender,are included in our study. Diagnosed patients of neurotic disorder with dyspnoea are treated as case and Patients of dyspnoea who are referred to our pulmonary lab for spirometry, from departments other than psychiatry are treated as control. Spirometry is done by a portable spirometer and appropriate statistical methods are applied for the analysis.
Results: We find that the overall abnormal spirometric patterns are more in control group. It is 40.7% in control and it is 32.1% in case. The results, when compared, it is seen that the number of reversible obstructive pattern is more in control group than case. It is 7.8% in control and 3.5% in case. Irreversible obstructive pattern is also more common in control group. It is 22.14% in control and 4.28% in case. But the restrictive pattern is more in case than control. It is 24.285 in case and 10.71% in control. It is significantly high in case than control.
Conclusion: The results of this study concluded that lung functions were significantly depressed in neurotic disorder patients with dyspnoea. All types of pulmonary disorders may affect neurotic disorder patients but restrictive type of disorder was more pronounced in neurotic disorder patients with dyspnoea
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