Short- and long-term hemodynamic effects of captopril in patients with pulmonary hypertension and selected connective tissue disease.

abstract：:A man with primary lung cancer developed respiratory failure due to lymphangitis carcinomatosis that was diagnosed by transbronchial lung biopsy specimen. After combination chemotherapy with high-dose etoposide and cisplatin (CDDP), he was able to cease oxygen therapy and showed improvement of his lymphangitis carcino...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Fujita J,Yamagishi Y,Kubo A,Takigawa K,Yamaji Y,Takahara J

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms leading to rapid changes in arterial blood gas values soon after exercise ends have not been well established. To further study these phenomena, we exercised seven normal male volunteers to exhaustion on a cycle ergometer with a 25-W/min ramped protocol measuring arterial blood gas values, and breath-by...

journal_title：Chest

authors： O'Neill AV,Johnson DC

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In California, state law now prohibits smoking in most public places. We examined the prevalence and short-term health impact of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure during travel among adults with asthma. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS:A cohort of 374 nonsmoking adults with asthma recruited from a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Eisner MD,Blanc PD

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The measurement of esophageal pressure (Pes) is the conventional method for the evaluation of the forces applied to the respiratory system by the respiratory muscles. As an alternative to Pes measurement, we propose the calculation of the instantaneous net pressure applied by the respiratory muscles [Pmusc(t)...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Iotti GA,Braschi A,Brunner JX,Palo A,Olivei MC

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter about antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation (AF) is part of the Seventh ACCP Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy: Evidence Based Guidelines. Grade 1 recommendations are strong and indicate that the benefits do, or do not, outweigh risks, burden, and costs. Grade 2 suggests that i...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Singer DE,Albers GW,Dalen JE,Go AS,Halperin JL,Manning WJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of pancreatitis, which occurred while the patient was on a propofol drip and then recurred after resolution following an inadvertent rechallenge with propofol. The initial episode was associated with hypertriglyceridemia, whereas the latter was not. The association between propofol and pancreatitis is...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kumar AN,Schwartz DE,Lim KG

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one patients with malignant pleural effusion (MPE) were prospectively entered into a nonrandomized, single-armed study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of recombinant interferon (IFN) alpha-2b (INTRON A; Schering-Plough; Kenilworth, NJ) as an intrapleural palliative agent. From March 1989 through February 19...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wilkins HE 3rd,Connolly MM,Grays P,Marquez G,Nelson D

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-expandable stainless steel stents (Gianturco, William Cook, Bjaeverskov, Denmark) used extensively in biliary ducts and the vascular system have recently been modified for use in the tracheobronchial tree. Between March 1991 and September 1992, six patients with unresectable tracheobronchial and mediastinal d...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Zannini P,Melloni G,Chiesa G,Carretta A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 20-year period, 83 patients underwent operative pleurodesis with resection of pulmonary blebs for spontaneous pneumothorax. Follow-up for all patients was between 5 and 25 years, with a mean of 9.1 years. There were five early (5.6 percent) and three late recurrences (3.6 percent). There were no deaths or need ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Donahue DM,Wright CD,Viale G,Mathisen DJ

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with ulcerative colitis had extensive upper zone pulmonary disease while taking sulfasalazine. Pulmonary function tests showed progressive restrictive and obstructive disease. Lung biopsy showed bronchiolitis obliterans and chronic interstitial pneumonia or fibrosing alveolitis with a mild eosinophilic infil...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Williams T,Eidus L,Thomas P

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Factors influencing diastolic filling of the left ventricle may serve as critical determinants of both maximal cardiac output and oxygen uptake. This study was conducted to assess diastolic filling dynamics of the left ventricle during progressive upright cycle exercise in children. METHODS:Twelve boys...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Rowland T,Mannie E,Gawle L

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomyces israelii is a rare cause of pericarditis. Infection spreads to pericardium from an intrathoracic focus. Branching gram-positive filaments are seen on microscopic examination of clinical specimens. Cultures should be performed under anaerobic conditions. Both surgical drainage and antibiotics (penicillin) a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Schlossberg D,Franco-Jove D,Woodward C,Shulman J

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human genetic variation has enormous implications for individual susceptibility to lung disease, as well as for differences in prognosis and response to therapeutic interventions. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most common type of DNA sequence variation. An SNP is the substitution of a single base in t...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tebbutt SJ,James A,Paré PD

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the feasibility of individualized workload increments, as used in adults, for exercise testing in children; and to investigate whether this individualized protocol makes it possible to satisfy the usual criteria for maximal exercise (clinical exhaustion, predicted maximum heart rate [HRmax], o...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Karila C,de Blic J,Waernessyckle S,Benoist MR,Scheinmann P

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia (BOOP) is a clinicopathologic syndrome characterized by an indolent course and favorable prognosis. This report describes five patients with a fulminating and life-threatening variant of this syndrome. Four patients presented with respiratory failure requir...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nizami IY,Kissner DG,Visscher DW,Dubaybo BA

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ratio of FVC to slow inspiratory vital capacity (SVC) has been reported to reflect small airways obstruction, but its validity as such is still unclear. The aim of this study was to assess the applicability of the FVC/SVC ratio as a marker of small airways function in patients with bronchiolitis oblitera...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Cohen J,Postma DS,Vink-Klooster K,van der Bij W,Verschuuren E,Ten Hacken NH,Koëter GH,Douma WR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of neuromuscular blocking agents, particularly pancuronium, in patients receiving mechanical ventilation has been reported to cause prolonged paralysis and atrophy. We describe two mechanically ventilated patients with asthma who developed prolonged muscular weakness and atrophy after receiving the shorter-act...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Margolis BD,Khachikian D,Friedman Y,Garrard C

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surgical treatment of the completely obstructed left main coronary artery is aortocoronary saphenous-vein bypass to the left coronary artery system. Without surgical intervention, this lesion has an exceedingly poor prognosis. This report describes a patient with atherosclerotic obstruction of the left main corona...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sutherland RD,Allison W,Guynes WA,Martinez HE

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disease progression in COPD is associated with a decline in exercise performance over time. We assessed whether tiotropium might mitigate this by determining its effect on treadmill endurance time (ET) over 2 years. METHODS:This was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of tiotropium, 18 μg d...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Cooper CB,Celli BR,Jardim JR,Wise RA,Legg D,Guo J,Kesten S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-year-old man who presented with symptoms suggesting empyema was found at thoracotomy to have infarction of an extralobar pulmonary sequestration. He was completely relieved by excision of the sequestration after securing the systemic vascular pedicle which had undergone torsion. Recognition of the anomalous blood...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Maull KI,McElvein RB

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristic arteriopathy of primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) with attendant endothelial dysfunction provides an opportunity for enhanced cellular activation in the lung. Data from many laboratories support the concept of altered eicosanoid metabolism in PPH. Rigorously quantitative measurements of the excre...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Christman BW

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acute pneumonia due to Pasteurella multocida ssp multocida occurred in a young man with AIDS and chronic sinusitis. The pneumonia was diagnosed by bronchoscopy and responded to treatment with aztreonam. Epidemiologic investigation revealed the case was temporally related to nontraumatic exposure to cat secre...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Drabick JJ,Gasser RA Jr,Saunders NB,Hadfield TL,Rogers LC,Berg BW,Drabick CJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-acting β2-agonists (LABAs) and long-acting muscarinic antagonists (LAMAs) are recommended as initial maintenance treatments for COPD, with their combination (LABA-LAMA) advocated as the disease progresses. Randomized trials comparing the effectiveness of this combination with the alternative combination...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Suissa S,Dell'Aniello S,Ernst P

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Doppler-derived myocardial performance index (MPI), a measure of combined systolic and diastolic myocardial performance, was assessed at rest and after low-dose dobutamine administration in patients with idiopathic or ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy. MPI also was correlated with other conventional echoc...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Parthenakis FI,Kanakaraki MK,Kanoupakis EM,Skalidis EI,Diakakis GF,Filippou OK,Vardas PE

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient had repetitive ventricular fibrillation preceded by alternating ST segment depression and elevation. The ECG changes were confined to the precordial leads only, reflecting subendocardial and transmural ischemia, respectively. It is speculated that the patient exhibited consecutive episodes of subtotal and to...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Rechavia E,Sagie A,Kusniec J,Mager A,Sclarovsky S

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary sequestration is a congenital anomaly resulting in nonfunctioning lung tissue in either the "extralobar" or "intralobar" position. Both forms derive their blood supply from the systemic circulation. Large pulmonary sequestrations can present in the newborn with potentially fatal respiratory distress. Surgica...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Piccione W Jr,Burt ME

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two cases of sarcoidosis complicated by HIV infection. Each case had a different level of sarcoidosis activity and coexisted with either an AIDS-related infection or a HIV-positive state. Manifestations of sarcoidosis were not apparent in the patient with the AIDS-defining opportunistic infection, but were ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Amin DN,Sperber K,Brown LK,Chusid ED,Teirstein AS

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSES:To evaluate the safety of inferior vena cava (IVC) filter retrieval in therapeutically anticoagulated patients in comparison to prophylactically or not therapeutically anticoagulated patients with respect to retrieval-related hemorrhagic complications. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This was a retrospective study of 1...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hoppe H,Kaufman JA,Barton RE,Petersen BD,Lakin PC,Deloughery TG,Irani Z,Yavuz K,Keller FS

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health-care workers are concerned about the risk of acquiring contagious diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome and avian influenza after recent outbreaks. We studied exhaled air and particle dispersion through an oronasal mask attached to a human-patient simulator (HPS) during noninvasive positi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hui DS,Hall SD,Chan MT,Chow BK,Tsou JY,Joynt GM,Sullivan CE,Sung JJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almitrine improves blood gas values in patients with COPD, primarily through better ventilation-perfusion matching. The improvement comes largely from a vasomotor effect of the drug. The vasomotor mechanism is unknown. We suspected that decreased distensibility of the large pulmonary arteries was one probable effect o...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Herve P,Musset D,Simonneau G,Wagner W Jr,Duroux P

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00