Respiratory
- Obstructive sleep apnoea, obesity hypoventilation syndrome
- Obstructive; COPD, asthma, bronchiectasis, alpha-1 antitrypsin
- Restrictive; idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis secondary to amiodarone, diffuse systemic scleroderma
- Pneumonia, tuberculosis
- Post-lung transplant with cystic fibrosis
- Lung cancer
- Phrenic nerve palsy
- Pneumothorax
- Bronchopleural fistula
Cardiovascular
- Ischaemic heart disease; angina, coronary stents
- Cardiomyopathy; ischaemic, right heart failure, HOCM
- Valvular heart disease; rheumatic, mixed
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Peripheral vascular disease
- Post-cardiac transplant
- Marfan’s syndrome
- Kartagener’s syndrome (primary ciliary dyskinesia) with anaemia
- Arrhythmias; atrial fibrillation, flutter, VT, LQTS
- Pacemaker, AICD
- Congenital heart disease; TOGA with VSD and Eisenmenger’s
Abdominal
- Chronic liver impairment secondary to alcohol, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, haemophilia factor replacement
- Post-liver transplant
- Chronic renal impairment secondary to polycystic kidney, diabetes
- Post-renal transplant
Neuromuscular
- Myotonic dystrophy
- Acromegaly with cranial nerve pathology
- Peripheral neuropathy/polyneuropathy; Guillain-Barre, polio, multiple sclerosis, Charcot-Marie-Tooth
- Polyarthritis; rheumatoid, ankylosing, psoriatic arthritis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Myasthenia gravis
- Neuropathic pain
- CRPS with spinal cord AV malformation
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Connective tissue diseases
- Friedreich’s ataxia
Endocrine
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Diabetes
- Cushing’s syndrome
- Haemochromatosis
Immune
- Common variable immunodeficiency
- Wegener’s granulomatosis
- Sarcoidosis