Reduced perception of dyspnea and pain after right insular cortex lesions.

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to examine risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia in the surgical and medical/respiratory intensive care unit (ICU) populations. In a public teaching hospital, all cases of nosocomial pneumonia in the surgical and medical/respiratory ICUs (n = 20, respectively) were identified by prospectiv...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Cunnion KM,Weber DJ,Broadhead WE,Hanson LC,Pieper CF,Rutala WA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Recent studies have suggested that both embryonic stem cells and adult bone marrow stem cells can participate in the regeneration and repair of diseased adult organs, including the lungs. However, the extent of airway epithelial remodeling with adult marrow stem cells is low, and there are no available in viv...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sueblinvong V,Loi R,Eisenhauer PL,Bernstein IM,Suratt BT,Spees JL,Weiss DJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A histologic feature of usual interstitial pneumonia is the presence of fibroblastic foci. As some patients with usual interstitial pneumonia and an underlying collagen vascular disease have a better prognosis, we hypothesized that they would have fewer fibroblastic foci. Pathologists reviewed surgical lung biopsies f...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Flaherty KR,Colby TV,Travis WD,Toews GB,Mumford J,Murray S,Thannickal VJ,Kazerooni EA,Gross BH,Lynch JP 3rd,Martinez FJ

更新日期：2003-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) and traffic-related air pollutants are associated with asthma and allergy. Diesel exhaust particles (DEPs) and SHS can interact with allergens in exacerbating allergic airway diseases through generation of reactive oxygen species. Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) metabolize rea...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Gilliland FD,Li YF,Gong H Jr,Diaz-Sanchez D

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that persists even during adequate therapy and asymptomatic episodes. We questioned whether "silent" chronic allergen exposure can induce and maintain airway inflammation and whether this still occurs during regular treatment with inhaled steroids. Twenty-six patients with hous...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： de Kluijver J,Evertse CE,Schrumpf JA,van der Veen H,Zwinderman AH,Hiemstra PS,Rabe KF,Sterk PJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:S100A12 is overexpressed during inflammation and is a marker of inflammatory disease. Furthermore, it has been ascribed to the group of damage-associated molecular pattern molecules that promote inflammation. However, the exact role of human S100A12 during early steps of immune activation and sepsis is only p...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Foell D,Wittkowski H,Kessel C,Lüken A,Weinhage T,Varga G,Vogl T,Wirth T,Viemann D,Björk P,van Zoelen MA,Gohar F,Srikrishna G,Kraft M,Roth J

更新日期：2013-06-15 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

abstract：:Early experience suggests that lung volume reduction surgery improves exercise tolerance as measured by the 6-min walk distance in patients with emphysema. To identify the physiologic mechanism(s) by which lung volume reduction surgery improved exercise, we performed progressive cardiopulmonary exercise testing, inclu...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Benditt JO,Lewis S,Wood DE,Klima L,Albert RK

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred forty-one subjects 34 to 69 yr of age were recruited from a random sample of the community. The sample was biased in favor of men, snorers, and subjects with subjective sleep complaints. They answered a questionnaire and were monitored in their homes for sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). This report conce...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Olson LG,King MT,Hensley MJ,Saunders NA

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to characterize polymorphisms in the proximal coding region of the lipopolysaccharide binding protein gene and to determine whether a previously reported variant was associated with sepsis complicated by organ failure or shock after trauma. We used multiple analytical methods, including pyrosequencing, restr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Barber RC,O'Keefe GE

更新日期：2003-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can be curative in patients with certain malignancies, survival is poor if the recipient becomes critically ill. This prospective study examined the outcomes of 115 consecutive HSCT patients admitted to the medical intensive care unit (MICU) of a tertiary cancer ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Price KJ,Thall PF,Kish SK,Shannon VR,Andersson BS

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this prospective study was to determine factors influencing effects of inhaled nitric oxide (NO) on the pulmonary circulation and on gas exchange in critically ill patients with acute lung injury. Twenty-one hypoxemic patients with acute respiratory failure (PaO2 = 127 +/- 69 mm Hg during intermittent posit...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Puybasset L,Rouby JJ,Mourgeon E,Cluzel P,Souhil Z,Law-Koune JD,Stewart T,Devilliers C,Lu Q,Roche S

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of immunoglobulin E (IgE) in the development and course of impaired ventilatory function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) required further study. This role has been examined in the longitudinal Tucson Epidemiological Study of Airways Obstructive Disease, which started in 1972. The association ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sherrill DL,Lebowitz MD,Halonen M,Barbee RA,Burrows B

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) induces transient proliferation of alveolar type II cells (AEII) associated with surfactant alterations. To test the hypothesis that homeostasis of intracellular phospholipid stores is maintained under KGF-induced hyperplasia, we (1) collected tissue from adult rat lungs, fixed for lig...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Fehrenbach A,Bube C,Hohlfeld JM,Stevens P,Tschernig T,Hoymann HG,Krug N,Fehrenbach H

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with impaired pulmonary function are at increased risk for the development of postoperative complications. Recently exercise testing and predicted postoperative (ppo) function have gained increasing importance in the evaluation of lung resection candidates. We prospectively evaluated an algorithm for the preo...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Wyser C,Stulz P,Solèr M,Tamm M,Müller-Brand J,Habicht J,Perruchoud AP,Bolliger CT

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disease of unknown etiology that primarily affects the lungs. The etiology remains unclear; however, environmental, genetic, ethnic, and familial factors probably modify expression of the disease. As an example, African Americans are at greater risk of mortality and morbidity th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Martin WJ 2nd,Iannuzzi MC,Gail DB,Peavy HH

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Corticosteroids are the antiinflammatory treatment of choice in asthma. Treatment guidelines are mainly symptom-driven but symptoms are not closely related to airway inflammation. The fraction of nitric oxide in exhaled air (FENO) is a marker of airway inflammation in asthma. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated whether t...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Pijnenburg MW,Bakker EM,Hop WC,De Jongste JC

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this investigation, tenascin (Tn) expression was studied in 51 cases of different types of fibrotic lung disorders originating for years 1981 to 1995. Our aim was to test if accumulation of Tn at the site of lung injury in usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) could correlate with the prognosis. Lung biopsies taken fr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kaarteenaho-Wiik R,Tani T,Sormunen R,Soini Y,Virtanen I,Pääkkö P

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma in adults may be associated with chronic airflow obstruction, possibly resulting from airway disease in early life and/or a greater rate of decline in lung function in adult life compared with those with asthma. Treatment and cigarette smoking may also influence the rate of decline of lung function. The aim of ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： James AL,Palmer LJ,Kicic E,Maxwell PS,Lagan SE,Ryan GF,Musk AW

更新日期：2005-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transbronchial biopsies (TBBs) are useful to diagnose acute rejection and infection in patients with lung transplants. The value of routine surveillance biopsies (S-TBBs) is not known, and such biopsies with a clinical indication are not without risk and are expensive. One hundred twenty-six 6-mo survivors of heart-lu...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tamm M,Sharples LD,Higenbottam TW,Stewart S,Wallwork J

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the apparent contradictions in vascular remodeling in the lungs of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, we evaluated alveolar vascularity in relation to the various degrees of fibrosis in surgically biopsied lungs of usual interstitial pneumonia. Alveolar capillary endothelial cells were intensely...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Ebina M,Shimizukawa M,Shibata N,Kimura Y,Suzuki T,Endo M,Sasano H,Kondo T,Nukiwa T

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Vitamin D has been shown to be involved in the host immune response toward Mycobacterium tuberculosis. OBJECTIVES:To test whether vitamin D supplementation of patients with tuberculosis (TB) improved clinical outcome and reduced mortality. METHODS:We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Wejse C,Gomes VF,Rabna P,Gustafson P,Aaby P,Lisse IM,Andersen PL,Glerup H,Sodemann M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of suplatast tosilate, which has been proven to inhibit T-cell synthesis of IL-4 and IL-5, on the response to antigen inhalation challenge was investigated in sensitized guinea pigs. The animals were given an oral dose of 30 or 100 mg/kg of suplatast or vehicle (distilled water) daily for 1 wk before antige...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Iijima H,Tamura G,Hsiue TR,Liu Y,Taniguchi H,Shirato K

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) is elevated in patients with inflammatory pulmonary diseases and it has attracted increasing interest as a simple, noninvasive marker of airway inflammation. Little is known, however, about factors that might affect eNO in healthy subjects. We measured eNO in 157 healthy 7- to 13-yr-old chil...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Franklin PJ,Taplin R,Stick SM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central airway obstruction is a problem facing all medical and surgical subspecialists caring for patients with chest diseases. The incidence of this disorder appears to be rising because of the epidemic of lung cancer; however, benign causes of central airway obstruction are being seen more frequently as well. The mo...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Ernst A,Feller-Kopman D,Becker HD,Mehta AC

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is characterized by the formation of plexiform lesions and concentric intimal fibrosis in small pulmonary arteries. The origin of cells contributing to these vascular lesions is uncertain. Endogenous endothelial progenitor cells are potential contributors to this p...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Toshner M,Voswinckel R,Southwood M,Al-Lamki R,Howard LS,Marchesan D,Yang J,Suntharalingam J,Soon E,Exley A,Stewart S,Hecker M,Zhu Z,Gehling U,Seeger W,Pepke-Zaba J,Morrell NW

更新日期：2009-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported differential impairment of pulmonary and systemic vascular contractility in hyperdynamic sepsis. The objectives of this study were (1) to determine whether the magnitude of this phenomenon depends on the control group chosen for comparison, and (2) to examine the role of nitric oxide (NO) i...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Yaghi A,Paterson NA,McCormack DG

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Venous thromboembolism is difficult to diagnose in critically ill patients and may increase morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of strategies to reduce morbidity from venous thromboembolism in critically ill patients. METHODS:A Markov decision analytic model to compare wee...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sud S,Mittmann N,Cook DJ,Geerts W,Chan B,Dodek P,Gould MK,Guyatt G,Arabi Y,Fowler RA,Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.,E-PROTECT Investigators.

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), a unique disorder of respiratory control associated with Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) and tumors of neural crest origin, results from polyalanine repeat expansion mutations in the paired-like homeobox (PHOX)2B gene in more than 90% of cases, and alternative P...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Berry-Kravis EM,Zhou L,Rand CM,Weese-Mayer DE

更新日期：2006-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Defective efferocytosis (phagocytic clearance of apoptotic cells) in the airway may perpetuate inflammation via secondary necrosis in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We have previously reported that low-dose azithromycin improved alveolar macrophage (AM) phagocytic function in vitro. OBJECTIVES...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hodge S,Hodge G,Jersmann H,Matthews G,Ahern J,Holmes M,Reynolds PN

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00