Epidemiology of chronic bronchitis and acute infective exacerbations of chronic bronchitis.

abstract：:Sepsis is a common and life-threatening condition with a high mortality rate. Severe sepsis includes multiorgan dysfunction syndrome. The organ most often affected is the lung, with development of acute lung injury (ALI), which, in its most severe form, is referred to as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Our...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Bastarache JA,Ware LB,Bernard GR

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance has generally increased over the past 5 decades, with occasional brief respites following the introduction of new antimicrobial classes. Resistance has been driven by bacterial genetic events, antibiotic pressures, and lapses in hospital hygiene. Recently promoted solutions to the problem of h...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Weinstein RA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sjögren syndrome (SS) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic inflammation of exocrine glands and a variety of extraglandular sites. Lung involvement as defined by symptoms and either pulmonary function testing or radiographic abnormalities occurs in approximately 10 to 20% of patients. Subclinica...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kreider M,Highland K

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When Dr. Joseph Lynch, editor of Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, invited us to organize and edit this topic we-and our contributors-were initially baffled about how we could marry outcomes, ethics, and economics. His perspective as an elder-statesman, who has observed the evolution of critical care...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Manthous CA,White DB,Carson SS

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in the pediatric population is associated with a variety of underlying diseases and causes, significantly morbidity and mortality. In the majority of patients, PAH in children is idiopathic or associated with congenital heart disease (CHD), with pulmonary hypertension (PH) associa...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Takatsuki S,Ivy DD

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP) represents one of the largest subsets of patients with pneumonia. Based on epidemiological projections for the aging U.S. population, the number of hospitalizations for HCAP is expected to increase exponentially for the next several decades. The unique risk factors for colonizati...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Morrow LE

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) exhibit significant variability in the course and severity of the disease, and this variability is best interpreted in the context of an interaction between genetic and nongenetic determinants. While a small number of patients with "mild" mutations in the CF transmembrane conductance...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Schechter MS

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) represents one histologic subtype of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP). NSIP is typified by temporal homogeneity and less profusion of fibroblastic foci than is seen with usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP), the most common IIP. Clinically patients with NSIP present with ...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Flaherty KR,Martinez FJ,Travis W,Lynch JP 3rd

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are typically environmental organisms residing in soil and water. Although generally of low pathogenicity to humans, NTM can cause a wide array of clinical diseases; pulmonary disease is most frequent, followed by lymphadenitis in children, skin disease by M. marinum (particularly...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： van Ingen J

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory samples obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in infectious processes provide important microbiological and cytological information to manage this type of patient. Most of the clinical and experimental BAL investigations have been done in ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and in immunosuppressed con...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Ramírez P,Valencia M,Torres A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The median age of presentation with lung cancer is 71, making the elderly the dominant subgroup. Although some elderly patients are frail, others have great physiological reserve. Geriatric assessment can clarify the specific strengths and weaknesses of older patients, improving management. This assessment should, at ...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Weiss J,Langer C

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade, improvements in surgical techniques, lung preservation, immunosuppression, and management of ischemia-reperfusion injury and infections have contributed to increase the 1 year patient survival after lung transplantation to 70 to 80%. However, the incidence of acute rejection remains higher than a...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Knoop C,Estenne M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common subtype of lung cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related death. Although durable local control rates are high after surgical resection or definitive radiotherapy for early-stage disease, a substantial proportion of these patients eventually experience regiona...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Dams RV,Yuan Y,Robinson CG,Lee P

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) is the most commonly isolated nontuberculous mycobacterial respiratory pathogen worldwide. MAC lung disease is manifested either by fibrocavitary radiographic changes similar to pulmonary tuberculosis or by bronchiectasis with nodular and reticulonodular radiographic changes. This lat...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Griffith DE

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonneoplastic pulmonary lymphoid disorders consist of a complex spectrum of diseases for pathologists and pulmonologists alike. Advances in our understanding of these disorders in recent years have led to revisions in the classification scheme. This review summarizes the clinicoradiological and pathological features o...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tian X,Yi ES,Ryu JH

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tracheostomy is a commonly performed surgical procedure in intensive care units (ICUs). Over the past three decades, there has been a substantial body of evidence to suggest percutaneous tracheostomy (PT) is at least as safe as surgical tracheostomy (ST) in the hands of trained clinicians. In most institutions, PT is ...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Al-Shathri Z,Susanto I

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral corticosteroids are powerful relatively nonspecific antiinflammatory agents with a range of well-characterized side effects. There is good evidence to show that they accelerate the rate of resolution of exacerbations of COPD and relapse is less likely if patients receive these drugs. Maintenance therapy with oral...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Calverley PM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this review is to familiarize a broad range of medical professionals with a relatively new and growing problem of infections caused by mycobacteria other than M. tuberculosis and M. leprae. There are at least 60 mycobacterial species that have been identified as causative agents of diseases in humans. T...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Heifets L

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review provides an update on literature published over the past 5 years that is relevant to using chest computed tomography (CT) as a tool for preventing occupational respiratory disease. An important area of investigation has been in the use of low-dose CT (LDCT) to screen asbestos-exposed populations for lung c...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Weissman DN

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite recent advances in understanding, the management of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remains a challenging clinical problem. Optimization of gas exchange and preventing the iatrogenic propagation of lung injury are cornerstones of its clinical management. A number of novel approaches and adjuncts to ...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kress JP,Marini JJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients admitted to the neuroscience intensive care unit (NICU) may have respiratory compromise from either central or peripheral neurological pathology, and may hence require intubation and mechanical ventilation for very diverse reasons. Liberation from invasive ventilation, that is, extubation, at the earliest pos...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Bösel J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiorgan dysfunction syndrome represents a continuum of cumulative organ dysfunction from very mildly altered function to total and, rarely, irreversible organ failure and is the major cause of death in the intensive care unit (ICU). The terms multiple organ failure syndrome (MOFS), multiple organ system failure (MO...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Ferreira AM,Sakr Y

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diaphragm is the most important muscle of ventilation. Its contraction is key to the development of intrathoracic pressures. Diseases that affect diaphragmatic function result in decreased pressure-generating capacity by the respiratory muscles. If the involvement is severe or if there is underlying respiratory pa...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Celli BR

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In heart failure (HF), pleural effusion results from increased interstitial fluid in the lung due to elevated pulmonary capillary pressure. Rarely, pleural effusions may occur in association with isolated right HF. HF-associated effusions are typically bilateral, but if unilateral, they are more commonly seen on the r...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Porcel JM

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pandemics of influenza have been reported since the early sixteenth century. Recent pandemics include the Spanish flu (H1N1) from 1918 to 1920 (resulting in approximately 50 million deaths worldwide); the Asian flu (H2N2) from 1957 to 1958 (resulting in more than 1 million deaths); the Hong Kong flu (H3N2) from 1968 t...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Rajagopal S,Treanor J

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sleep of intensive care unit (ICU) patients is remarkably disrupted. Several studies, employing both subjective and objective measures of sleep quality, have demonstrated that critically ill patients exhibit severe sleep fragmentation and reduced restorative sleep, particularly a suppression of rapid eye movement ...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Cooper AB,Gabor JY,Hanly PJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although airway inflammation is an intrinsic and key feature of asthma, this response varies in its intensity and translation to clinical characteristics and responsiveness to treatment. The observations that clinical heterogeneity is an important aspect of asthma and a feature that likely dictates and determines resp...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Viswanathan RK,Busse WW

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed tomography (CT) is the core imaging modality for the evaluation of thoracic disorders. With the recently developed dual-energy CT (DECT) technique, the clinical utility of CT in the management of pulmonary diseases can be expanded. The most actively investigated principle of dual energy is material decomposit...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Remy-Jardin M,Faivre JB,Pontana F,Molinari F,Tacelli N,Remy J

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite advances in positive pressure therapy for obstructive sleep apnea, compliance continues to be a problem for many patients. Sleep apnea surgery is a viable option for patients who are intolerant of positive pressure therapy. This review presents the current state of the art in sleep apnea surgery, including air...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Li KK

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment strategies for anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) are evolving. Cyclophosphamide (CYC) plus corticosteroids (CSs) is the mainstay of therapy for generalized, multisystemic AAV. Historically, the combination of CYC plus CS was used for a minimum of 12 months, but concern a...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Wang T,Weigt SS,Belperio JA,Lynch JP 3rd

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00