Genetics of cystic fibrosis.

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：:Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD) is a unique syndrome of airway inflammation that frequently occurs in patients with nasal polyposis, chronic sinusitis, and asthma. These patients tend to have progressive and recalcitrant sinus disease requiring frequent surgical intervention and in many cases systemic c...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： White AA,Stevenson DD

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bleeding from gastroesophageal varices is a frequent complication of cirrhosis. Mortality from a variceal bleeding episode has decreased in the last 2 decades from 40% to 15 to 20% due to the implementation of effective treatments and improvement in the general medical care. Initial treatment should include adequate f...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： García-Pagán JC,Reverter E,Abraldes JG,Bosch J

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human Herpesviridae family consists of eight members: cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 (HSV-1, -2), varicella-zoster virus (VZV), and human herpesvirus 6, 7, and 8 (HHV-6, -7, -8). Lifelong latency may develop in the host with reactivation during periods of relative imm...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Zamora MR

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung-protective ventilator strategies are considered standard practice in the care of patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). To minimize ventilator-induced lung injury, attention is directed at avoidance of alveolar overdistention and cyclical opening and closing. The lowest possible plateau pre...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hess DR

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease of unknown etiology that involves the lungs or intrathoracic lymph nodes in more than 90% of patients. The clinical spectrum of sarcoidosis is protean, but pulmonary manifestations often dominate. Chest radiographs are abnormal in 90 to 95% of patients with sarcoidosis; the most ...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Lynch JP 3rd

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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 overarching goals of early sepsis management include early recognition, appropriate antibiotic therapy and source control, maintenance of hemodynamic stability, and supportive care of organ dysfunction. Despite increasing awareness of the global burden of sepsis, and general agreement on the goals of management, t...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Moss SR,Prescott HC

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the number one cause of death from cancer in the United States. Currently, there is no official recommendation to screen for lung cancer even in high-risk populations. Accordingly, we wait for patients to present with symptoms. Only 15-20% of patients are stage I lung cancer at diagnosis. Past screening...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Jett JR

更新日期：2000-01-01 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 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：: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：: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：: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

abstract：:Increasing donor availability for organ transplantation requires attention to factors that are potentially modifiable. The potential pool of available organs can theoretically be enlarged by considering new sources of organs, including non-beating heart donors, live donor lobar transplants, xenotransplants, and in vit...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Williams TJ,Snell GI

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：:The genus Scedosporium comprises a group of filamentous fungi found ubiquitously in the environment. The two major human pathogens within this genus are S. apiospermum-the asexual state of Pseudallescheria boydii-and S. prolificans. Both histologically resemble Aspergillus species, with hyphae that are septated and br...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Panackal AA,Marr KA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccidioidomycosis (formerly known as South American blastomycosis) is produced by the thermally dimorphic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. Most often this mycosis runs a chronic progressive course affecting preferentially the lungs followed by the skin, mucous membranes, adrenals, and reticuloendothelial org...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Restrepo A,Benard G,de Castro CC,Agudelo CA,Tobón AM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterial infections have caused enormous morbidity and mortality in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Of these, the most devastating has been tuberculosis (TB), the leading cause of death among HIV-positive persons globally. TB has killed more people living with HIV than any other i...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Haas MK,Daley CL

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving hemostasis, preventing and treating thrombosis, and laboratory measurement of the hemostatic pathways constitute the core elements of managing the critically ill patient with liver failure. Uncontrolled bleeding in acutely decompensated cirrhosis and acute-on-chronic liver failure is probably the most famili...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Intagliata NM,Davis JPE,Caldwell SH

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cor pulmonale frequently develops in patients with restrictive lung disease and neuromuscular disorders. Sleep disordered breathing, including nocturnal hypoventilation and obstructive apnea, has been associated with the development of cor pulmonale and may affect morbidity. The mechanisms responsible for sleep disord...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Krachman SL,Criner GJ,Chatila W

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:Severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations requiring hospitalization are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Recognition of the importance of COPD exacerbations has led to the knowledge that prevention of exacerbations and early treatment are important goals of COPD therapy. Preventive man...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Bourbeau J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloidosis is the term given to abnormal deposition of misfolded precursor proteins at single or multiple sites, leading to organ dysfunction or clinical signs and symptoms. Pulmonary manifestations are nonspecific and may be associated with several amyloid protein subtypes, commonly AL (light chain) and AA (autoimmu...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Baqir M,Roden AC,Moua T

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a rare cancer associated with asbestos exposure and portends a dismal prognosis. Its worldwide incidence has been increasing, and treatment options are currently suboptimal and noncurative. However, since the turn of the century, several encouraging steps have been made toward improvi...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kim RY,Sterman DH,Haas AR

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past 5 years, there has arguably been a shift in the pathologic diagnosis of lung cancer, especially adenocarcinoma, moving toward a more patient-centered approach to reporting that works to incorporate information that may be clinically meaningful to prognosis and impactful to clinical management strategy. As ...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Konopka KE

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

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journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Oh SS,Folch E

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00