A randomized controlled trial of adaptive ventilation for Cheyne-Stokes breathing in heart failure.

abstract：:To determine if gastric intramucosal pH changes during weaning from mechanical ventilation are related to gastric mucosal blood flow modifications, we studied 16 ventilator-supported patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who tolerated a 2-h trial of spontaneous breathing with pressure support vent...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Bocquillon N,Mathieu D,Neviere R,Lefebvre N,Marechal X,Wattel F

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) produced in the airways can be either detrimental or protective to the host. To investigate the role of NO in the pathogenesis of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB), we measured exhaled NO (ENO) after exercise challenge in 39 asthmatic and six normal children. FEV(1) and ENO were measured bef...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Terada A,Fujisawa T,Togashi K,Miyazaki T,Katsumata H,Atsuta J,Iguchi K,Kamiya H,Togari H

更新日期：2001-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) and arterial blood carboxyhemoglobin concentrations (Hb-CO) increase in inflammatory pulmonary diseases. OBJECTIVES:To study whether arterial Hb-CO is useful to monitor disease activity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who had stopped smoking. METHOD...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Yasuda H,Yamaya M,Nakayama K,Ebihara S,Sasaki T,Okinaga S,Inoue D,Asada M,Nemoto M,Sasaki H

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the plasma levels of adrenomedullin (AM), a novel vasodilating peptide, in 89 patients with various forms of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and 13 healthy volunteers serving as controls. Plasma levels of AM in SIRS (burns: 20.5 +/- 3. 2 fmol/ml [mean +/- SEM]; pancreatitis: 13.8 +/- 3.8 fmo...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Ueda S,Nishio K,Minamino N,Kubo A,Akai Y,Kangawa K,Matsuo H,Fujimura Y,Yoshioka A,Masui K,Doi N,Murao Y,Miyamoto S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence suggests that neutrophil-derived proteinases play a major role in lung tissue damage in cystic fibrosis (CF). Most previous studies have focused on serine proteinases such as neutrophil elastase, providing no information on the extent to which metalloproteinases participate in proteolytic pr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Delacourt C,Le Bourgeois M,D'Ortho MP,Doit C,Scheinmann P,Navarro J,Harf A,Hartmann DJ,Lafuma C

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Spirometric detection of airway obstruction in adults requires separate predictive formulae for each ethnicity and sex for percentage of FEV(1)/FVC (%FEV(1)/FVC) and percentage of FEV(3)/FVC (%FEV(3)/FVC), the major measurements for defining airway obstruction. OBJECTIVES:To eliminate the need for multiple f...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hansen JE,Sun XG,Wasserman K

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The molecular mechanisms underlying acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are poorly understood. We studied the global gene expression signature of acute exacerbations of IPF. OBJECTIVES:To understand the gene expression patterns of acute exacerbations of IPF. METHODS:RNA was extracted ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Konishi K,Gibson KF,Lindell KO,Richards TJ,Zhang Y,Dhir R,Bisceglia M,Gilbert S,Yousem SA,Song JW,Kim DS,Kaminski N

更新日期：2009-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Whether a nurse-implemented goal-directed sedation protocol resulting in more awake yet calm intubated children affects postdischarge functional status, health-related quality of life, or risk for post-traumatic stress disorder is unknown. OBJECTIVES:To compare postdischarge outcomes in children with acute r...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Watson RS,Asaro LA,Hertzog JH,Sorce LR,Kachmar AG,Dervan LA,Angus DC,Wypij D,Curley MAQ,RESTORE Study Investigators and the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network.

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a chronic lung disease of very low birth weight infants, associated with oxygen therapy, barotrauma, and/or infections. Improved medical care has led to a paradoxically increased incidence of BPD due to greater infant survival. Early prediction of BPD has proven challenging. Increas...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Cullen A,Van Marter LJ,Allred EN,Moore M,Parad RB,Sunday ME

更新日期：2002-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Recent studies have demonstrated that extracellular vesicles (EVs) released during acute lung injury (ALI) were inflammatory.Objectives: The current study was undertaken to test the role of EVs induced and released from severe Escherichia coli pneumonia (E. coli EVs) in the pathogenesis of ALI and to determ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Liu A,Park JH,Zhang X,Sugita S,Naito Y,Lee JH,Kato H,Hao Q,Matthay MA,Lee JW

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The impact of asthma on chronic lung function deficits is well known. However, there has been little study of ethnic differences in these asthma-associated deficits. OBJECTIVES:To examine whether there are ethnic differences in the effects of asthma on children's lung function. METHODS:We evaluated the impa...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Zhang Y,McConnell R,Gilliland F,Berhane K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The causal direction between asthma and lung function deficit is unknown, but important for the focus of preventive measures and research into the origins of asthma. OBJECTIVES:To analyze the interaction between lung function development and asthma from birth to 7 years of age. METHODS:The Copenhagen Prospe...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Bisgaard H,Jensen SM,Bønnelykke K

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compare the effectiveness of information delivered to family members of critically ill patients by junior and senior physicians, we performed a prospective randomized multicenter trial in 11 French intensive care units. Patients (n = 220) were allocated at random to having their family members receive information b...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Moreau D,Goldgran-Toledano D,Alberti C,Jourdain M,Adrie C,Annane D,Garrouste-Orgeas M,Lefrant JY,Papazian L,Quinio P,Pochard F,Azoulay E

更新日期：2004-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An imbalance between neutrophil proteases and the surrounding antiproteases is critical in the normal functioning of the neutrophil. Enzyme activity is of importance in cell migration and may play a role in some beneficial aspects of host defense. However, when persistent or excessive this imbalance can be detrimental...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Stockley RA

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of children with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is challenging, and it is likely that in many places, the roll-out of molecular diagnostic testing will lead to more children being diagnosed. There is a limited evidence base to guide optimal treatment and follow-up in the pediatric population; in ex...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Seddon JA,Furin JJ,Gale M,Del Castillo Barrientos H,Hurtado RM,Amanullah F,Ford N,Starke JR,Schaaf HS,Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis.

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar epithelial type II cells (AET2) respond with exocytosis of surfactant containing lamellar bodies to stimulation with mechanical stretch and secretagogues, a process that is fundamental for maintaining alveolar stability and lung gas exchange. In the present study in cultured rat AET2, we employed botulinum C2...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Rose F,Kürth-Landwehr C,Sibelius U,Reuner KH,Aktories K,Seeger W,Grimminger F

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:It is hypothesized that the affective dimension of dyspnea (unpleasantness, emotional response) is not strictly dependent on the intensity of dyspnea. OBJECTIVES:We tested the hypothesis that the ratio of immediate unpleasantness (A(1)) to sensory intensity (SI) varies depending on the type of dyspnea. METH...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Banzett RB,Pedersen SH,Schwartzstein RM,Lansing RW

更新日期：2008-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial liquid ventilation (PLV) has been shown to be an effective means of improving oxygenation in the injured lung. However, little is known about how approach to ventilation during PLV affects gas exchange and pulmonary mechanics. We hypothesized that gas exchange and pulmonary mechanics would be best with positiv...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Fujino Y,Kirmse M,Hess D,Kacmarek RM

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Matrix metalloproteinase-7 (MMP-7) has been implicated in interstitial lung disease pathobiology and proposed as a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. OBJECTIVES:To test associations between serum MMP-7 and lung function, respiratory symptoms, interstitial lung abnormalities...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Armstrong HF,Podolanczuk AJ,Barr RG,Oelsner EC,Kawut SM,Hoffman EA,Tracy R,Kaminski N,McClelland RL,Lederer DJ

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into the source of exhaled nitric oxide (NO) in normal humans, we examined the effects of respiratory pattern on the concentration of NO in exhaled air while subjects were wearing a noseclip and then under endotracheal intubation, using a specially designed gas sampling system to separate exhaled air i...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tsujino I,Miyamoto K,Nishimura M,Shinano H,Makita H,Saito S,Nakano T,Kawakami Y

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theophylline is well-established in the management of asthma, and there is some evidence of an antiinflammatory effect in asthma. It is not known whether theophylline affects inflammatory markers such as sputum eosinophils and exhaled nitric oxide (NO) in patients with mild asthma not receiving inhaled steroid therapy...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Lim S,Tomita K,Caramori G,Jatakanon A,Oliver B,Keller A,Adcock I,Chung KF,Barnes PJ

更新日期：2001-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral respiratory tract infections are associated with an acute increase in airway responsiveness in normal subjects and patients with asthma. Airway responsiveness is also increased at least transiently in animals during acute viral infections. In this article, we discuss possible mechanisms whereby viral infections ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hegele RG,Hayashi S,Hogg JC,Paré PD

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality of life has been found to be impaired both in patients with asthma and in patients with allergic rhinitis, but the relative burden of these diseases has not been investigated. We analyzed answers to the SF-36 questionnaire from 850 subjects recruited in two French centers participating in the European Communit...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Leynaert B,Neukirch C,Liard R,Bousquet J,Neukirch F

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma in children and young adults is strongly associated with immediate hypersensitivity to indoor allergens, notably those derived from the house dust mite. In addition, outdoor air pollution is considered to aggravate existing asthma. We investigated the prevalence of asthma and the pattern of allergen sensitizati...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sporik R,Ingram JM,Price W,Sussman JH,Honsinger RW,Platts-Mills TA

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental and epidemiological evidence supports the hypothesis that exposure to mycobacteria has the potential to suppress the development of asthma and/or atopy and there are reports in the Chinese medical literature of repeated vaccination with inactivated BCG being effective in the management of asthma. Forty-th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Shirtcliffe PM,Easthope SE,Cheng S,Weatherall M,Tan PL,Le Gros G,Beasley R

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because inflammation stimulates the expression of inducible nitric oxide (NO) synthase (iNOS) with an associated increased local NO production, we hypothesized that patients with pneumonia would have increased excretion of NO into their airways. To test this hypothesis, NO was measured in the exhaled air and from the ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Adrie C,Monchi M,Dinh-Xuan AT,Dall'Ava-Santucci J,Dhainaut JF,Pinsky MR

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female Fisher 344 rats (n = 25) were inoculated intrapleurally with a single 20-mg dose of (JM-100) fibrous glass. The mean length (2.2 microns) and width (0.15 microns) of the fibrous glass particles was within respirable range. Following inoculation, the rats were killed at timed intervals ranging from 2 to 430 d fr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Fraire AE,Greenberg SD,Spjut HJ,Roggli VL,Dodson RF,Cartwright J,Williams G,Baker S

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Qualitatively the mechanical, structural, and biochemical properties of airway smooth muscles resemble those of all other smooth muscle. However, one important distinguishing feature of airway smooth muscle is that the major portion of isotonic shortening is completed within the first 3 s in a muscle whose contraction...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Stephens NL,Li W,Wang Y,Ma X

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Snoring and sleeping apnea are reportedly associated with morbidity. We used home monitoring (MESAM IV) to measure snoring and sleep apnea in 294 men aged 40 to 65 yr from the volunteer register of the Busselton (Australia) Health Survey. In this group, 81% snored for more than 10% of the night and 22% for more than h...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Bearpark H,Elliott L,Grunstein R,Cullen S,Schneider H,Althaus W,Sullivan C

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The allergen inhalation challenge is used in clinical trials to test the efficacy of new treatments in attenuating the late-phase asthmatic response (LAR) and associated airway inflammation in subjects with allergic asthma. However, not all subjects with allergic asthma develop the LAR after allergen inhalati...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Singh A,Shannon CP,Kim YW,Yang CX,Balshaw R,Cohen Freue GV,Gauvreau GM,FitzGerald JM,Boulet LP,O'Byrne PM,Tebbutt SJ

更新日期：2018-02-15 00:00:00