Pulmonary paracoccidioidomycosis.

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is now more common in adults than children in countries with well-developed health care systems. The number of adults continues to increase and will further increase if the new cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulators are disease modifying. Most of the complex morbidit...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Elborn JS

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tracheobronchial prostheses, known as airway stents, are used to palliate the effects of large airway obstruction. The most common types of stents in current clinical use are made of silicone or metallic wire. An ideal stent should possess several characteristics: (1) it should be easy to insert and remove, if necessa...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Saito Y

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) is a complex disorder commonly associated with other conditions such as connective tissue diseases (CTDs) and environmental exposures. Although idiopathic NSIP has been recognized as a separate clinical entity, recent studies have suggested that a proportion of these cases hav...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Teoh AKY,Corte TJ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term atypical pneumonia was first used in 1938, and by the 1970s it was widely used to refer to pneumonia due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Legionella pneumophila (or other Legionella species), and Chlamydophila pneumoniae. However, in the purest sense all pneumonias other than the classic bacterial pneumonias are aty...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Marrie TJ,Costain N,La Scola B,Patrick W,Forgie S,Xu Z,McNeil SA

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:Although the lung is frequently involved by disseminated lymphoma, isolated pulmonary lymphoma is rare, accounting for less than 1% of all extranodal localized disease. Three broad categories of lymphoma of the lung require recognition: in rare instances, large B cell type lymphoma can present primarily in the lung; a...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Chilosi M,Zinzani PL,Poletti V

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the improving survival of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and the advent of highly effective cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator therapy, the clinical spectrum of this complex multisystem disease continues to evolve. One of the most important clinical events for patients with CF in the course of thi...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Goss CH

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic disease, characterized by symmetric joint involvement, but it can also affect other organ systems, including the lungs. The better-known pulmonary manifestations of RA are interstitial lung disease, rheumatoid nodules, and pleural effusions. Less common manifestations include br...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Gauhar UA,Gaffo AL,Alarcón GS

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delivery of medication to sites of action through airways has been used for centuries but has gained momentum in recent decades. Currently available modes of aerosol delivery offer advantages but still there are shortcomings. Delivery of active agents to sites of action is affected by many factors beyond the character...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Singh S,Kanbar-Agha F,Sharafkhaneh A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinonasal sarcoidosis is a fairly uncommon, yet clinically challenging, manifestation of this systemic disease. The diagnosis is often difficult to establish, treatment options are often unclear, and ultimate clinical responses can be quite variable. This article discusses the varied clinical presentations of this unu...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tami TA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a frequent complication in surgical patients, with the potential for long-term disability or fatal outcome. The rationale behind routine use of thromboprophylaxis can be summarized in three points: (1) VTE is frequent in certain surgical populations, (2) VTE may be fatal, (3) thrombopro...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Petralia GA,Kakkar AK

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:Survivors of critical illness often experience long-lasting impairments in mental, cognitive, and physical functioning. Acute stress reactions and delusional memories appear to play an important role in psychological morbidity following critical illness, and few interventions exist to address these symptoms. This revi...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Karnatovskaia LV,Philbrick KL,Parker AM,Needham DM

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：: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：:Sarcoidosis is by definition a disease of "unknown causes," but recent epidemiologic advances suggest that the long-standing definition of sarcoidosis may soon need to be amended. The recently completed ACCESS (A Case-Control Etiologic Study of Sarcoidosis) study was not able to definitively identify the "cause" of sa...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Rybicki BA,Iannuzzi MC

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common chronic autoimmune disorder that characteristically causes joint inflammation and damage. In addition, many patients develop extraarticular manifestations which may cause significant comorbidity and premature mortality.Some respiratory tract involvement of the upper and lower airw...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Farquhar H,Vassallo R,Edwards AL,Matteson EL

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasculitides are a heterogeneous group of disorders in which inflammation of blood vessel walls is present at least some time during the course of the disease. Vasculitides can affect any caliber or type of vessel in many anatomic sites; however, the disease can alter more than just vasculature. Given the diversity of...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Scapa JV,Fishbein GA,Wallace WD,Fishbein MC

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoidosis is an immune-mediated systemic syndrome of unknown etiology. The treatment of the granulomatous inflammation in sarcoidosis is thus dependent on nonspecific suppression of the immune response. Although steroid-sparing approaches have moved to front-line therapy for many other immune-mediated inflammatory d...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Lazar CA,Culver DA

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of a patient with hypoventilation requires a combination of clinical history, physical examination, pulmonary function testing, and chest radiography to help determine the cause. Specialized testing such as measurement of respiratory muscle strength and assessment of ventilatory control may also be needed. ...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Berry RB,Sriram P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 3 decades, antimicrobial resistance among Streptococcus pneumoniae, the most common cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), has escalated dramatically worldwide. In the late 1970s, strains of pneumococci displaying resistance to penicillin were described in South Africa and Spain. By the early 1990s...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Lynch JP 3rd,Zhanel GG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critically ill intensive care unit (ICU) patients often require sedation to tolerate life-saving interventions such as mechanical ventilation. Pain, anxiety, and delirium all contribute to patient distress and agitation which can interfere with ICU medical care if not addressed and treated appropriately. Sedation prac...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： DeBiasi EM,Akgün KM,Pisani M

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) is an infection prevention strategy in intensive care unit (ICU) patients by topical administration of antibiotics to the mouth and stomach to eradicate potentially pathogenic bacteria and yeast that may cause infections. It also includes a short course of intrave...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： van Essen EH,de Jonge E

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance has emerged as a key determinant of outcome in patients with serious infections along with the virulence of the underlying pathogen. Within the intensive care unit (ICU) setting, ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common nosocomial infection that is frequently caused by multidrug-resistan...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kollef MH,Burnham CD

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is primarily a disease of the elderly. Although NSCLC is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and the overall prognosis of this disease is poor, treatment improves survival compared with best supportive care, independent of the stage of disease. Elderly patients hav...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sequist LV,Fidias P

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite significant progress in the field of transplant immunology, acute cellular rejection (ACR) remains a very frequent complication after lung transplantation (LTx), with almost 30% of LTx recipients experiencing at least one episode of treated ACR during the first year of follow-up. Most episodes respond to the f...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Koutsokera A,Levy L,Pal P,Orchanian-Cheff A,Martinu T

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive candidiasis (IC) is the most frequent health care associated invasive fungal infection. It is also associated with high morbidity, mortality, and cost. The most frequent etiologic agent is Candida albicans, but non-albicans species are increasing and associated with reduced antifungal susceptibility and outbr...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Gonzalez-Lara MF,Ostrosky-Zeichner L

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00