Formoterol suspension aerosol. Comparison with formoterol solution aerosol for 12 weeks in asthmatic patients.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To develop a simplified prognostic prediction rule for patients admitted to ICUs for severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). SETTING:Six ICUs in the north of France. PATIENTS:Five hundred five patients admitted to ICUs over a 9-year period (from 1987 to 1995) for severe CAP. INTERVENTIONS:Retrosp...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Leroy O,Devos P,Guery B,Georges H,Vandenbussche C,Coffinier C,Thévenin D,Beaucaire G

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Both pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary overflow are associated with functional and structural changes of the pulmonary arterial wall. Current techniques to evaluate the pulmonary vasculature neglect the pulsatile nature of pulmonary flow. STUDY OBJECTIVES:To determine whether the dynamic properties of th...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Berger RM,Cromme-Dijkhuis AH,Hop WC,Kruit MN,Hess J

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients were treated for AIDS-associated bilateral pneumothoraces which persisted despite prolonged chest tube drainage. Heimlich flutter valves were used to facilitate the outpatient management of these patients. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Driver AG,Peden JG,Adams HG,Rumley RL

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To detect intravascular hemolysis in patients with cardiac valve prostheses. Erythrocyte creatine, a marker of erythrocyte age that increases with shortening erythrocyte survival, was evaluated with other hemolytic markers and hemodynamic parameters. DESIGN:Prospective study. PATIENTS AND MEASUREMENT...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Okumiya T,Ishikawa-Nishi M,Doi T,Kamioka M,Takeuchi H,Doi Y,Sugiura T

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pulmonary arteriovenous malformation was embolized in a patient with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. Several unusual complications, including early deflation of a detachable balloon, migration of a coil, and development of severe pulmonary hypertension, occurred. Pulmonary hypertension was attributed to a coe...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Haitjema T,ten Berg JM,Overtoom TT,Ernst JM,Westermann CJ

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic effects of cuirass ventilation were studied in two patients with bilateral diaphragm paralysis. Negative inspiratory and positive expiratory pressure applied to the cuirass shell was transmitted to the abdominal and thoracic cavities. Diaphragm excursion was enhanced. Nocturnal cuirass ventilation appe...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Driver AG,Blackburn BB,Marcuard SP,Austin EH Jr

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinicians who auscultate the chest of normal children note that the frequency content of their breath sounds appears to vary with age. Because these changes have not been systematically documented before, we recorded and analyzed inspiratory breath sounds in 35 children (0 to 13 years) and five adults (34 to 43 years...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hidalgo HA,Wegmann MJ,Waring WW

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the time course and the relation to prognosis of coagulation and fibrinolytic abnormalities in patients with septic shock. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Forty-eight consecutive patients admitted to the medical ICU with the diagnosis of septic shock (diagnosed by defined criteria) were studied. Mortali...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lorente JA,García-Frade LJ,Landín L,de Pablo R,Torrado C,Renes E,García-Avello A

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge of the relationship between respiratory disorders and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is increasing. However, the association between GERD and pulmonary disease caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) has not been studied in detail. We investigated the prevalence of GERD in patients with...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Koh WJ,Lee JH,Kwon YS,Lee KS,Suh GY,Chung MP,Kim H,Kwon OJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We suspected, based on clinical experience, that the prevalence of both intracardiac and pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) is higher than previously reported in a healthy population when using modern ultrasound technology combined with a rigorous saline contrast echocardiogram (SCE) protocol. We ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Woods TD,Harmann L,Purath T,Ramamurthy S,Subramanian S,Jackson S,Tarima S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In summary, this is a patient who presented with respiratory acidosis and cor pulmonale. The major diagnostic challenge was in differentiating primary cardiopulmonary disease from a central abnormality of ventilatory drive. The arterial blood gases showed a normal A-a gradient suggesting hypoventilation as the etiolog...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Klepper M,Barnard P,Eschenbacher W

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of two-dimensional echocardiographic (2D echo) measurements in diagnosing right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH). These measurements of the right atrium and the ventricle were made in 15 patients with right ventricular hypertrophy and in 11 normal subjects and were...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Cacho A,Prakash R,Sarma R,Kaushik VS

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To determine the impact on survival and clinical correlates of pulmonary hypertension (PH) occurring in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). DESIGN:Retrospective study. SETTING:Tertiary care, referral medical center. PATIENTS:Among 487 consecutive patients with IPF, we identified 136 p...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nadrous HF,Pellikka PA,Krowka MJ,Swanson KL,Chaowalit N,Decker PA,Ryu JH

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vitamin D deficiency is common in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), and guidelines recommend 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels ≥ 30 ng/mL. This threshold was selected because serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) rises in healthy individuals when the 25OHD level falls below 30 ng/mL. PTH levels > 50 pg/mL are a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： West NE,Lechtzin N,Merlo CA,Turowski JB,Davis ME,Ramsay MZ,Watts SL,Stenner SP,Boyle MP

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient had accelerated attacks of chest pain associated with transient ST elevation or depression in the anterior leads. Coronary angiogram revealed severe multi-vessel disease. Anginal attacks with conspicuous ST depression were induced repeatedly by both oral and sublingual administration of nifedipine. Among var...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Yokoyama M,Koizumi T,Fujitani K,Mizutani T,Fukuzaki H

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Protected specimen brush (PSB) is considered to be one of the standard methods for the diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia, but to our knowledge, intraindividual variability in results has not been reported previously. PURPOSE:To compare the results of two PSB performed in the same subsegment on pa...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Timsit JF,Misset B,Francoual S,Goldstein FW,Vaury P,Carlet J

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophilic pulmonary infiltration is an uncommon presentation from cocaine abuse. We present a patient with migratory pulmonary infiltrates and eosinophilia consistent with Löffler's syndrome. Our review uncovered two other similar patients. The importance of early recognition is stressed in our report. Either absti...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nadeem S,Nasir N,Israel RH

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To review statistics on smoking prevalence and to analyze whether the implementation of national tobacco control legislation had an association with the prevalence of smoking, and thereby, with the occurrence of smoking-related lung diseases. DESIGN:Smoking prevalence rates (from 1960 to 2000), lung cancer ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Heloma A,Nurminen M,Reijula K,Rantanen J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history holds the central role in distinguishing among asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema. A personal or family history of atopy, a history of seasonal worsening of disease in response to a known environmental agent, perhaps seasonal, and marked variability in the severity of airflow obstruction, often with...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Snider GL

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal complications requiring surgical correction following cardiopulmonary bypass most frequently involve the upper gastrointestinal tract. Surgical diseases of the colon are quite unusual in this setting. We recently performed cardiac surgery on three patients who developed acute diverticulitis requiring ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Burton NA,Albus RA,Graeber GM,Lough FC

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the extent to which a mixture of human gastric juice and enteral formula stained with two concentrations of FD&C Blue No. 1 food dye (0.8 and 1.5 mL/L) is visible in suctioned tracheobronchial secretions following three forced small-volume pulmonary aspirations over a 6-h period in an anima...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Metheny NA,Dahms TE,Stewart BJ,Stone KS,Edwards SJ,Defer JE,Clouse RE

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:STUDY SETTINGS AND INTERVENTIONS: Sixty individuals complaining of dyspnea on exertion, but with normal spirometry and lung volumes and normal chest roentgenograms were reviewed for this study. These individuals were selected from a large group of outpatients (552 individuals over a seven-year period) who we...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mohsenifar Z,Collier J,Belman MJ,Koerner SK

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the ability of continuous nocturnal oximetry to detect sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) and to recognize nonapneic oxyhemoglobin desaturations. Oxygen saturation oscillations, related to successive apneas in SAS or to apneic episodes in COPD or restrictive patients, were quantified us...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pépin JL,Lévy P,Lepaulle B,Brambilla C,Guilleminault C

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To ascertain the incidence, types, morbidity, and mortality of infectious episodes in isolated lung transplant recipients. DESIGN:Retrospective chart review of patients who have undergone transplants over a six-year period in one institution. PATIENTS:Twenty-three single and 17 double lung transplants...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Maurer JR,Tullis DE,Grossman RF,Vellend H,Winton TL,Patterson GA

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal endocarditis is a rare complication of permanent pacemaker implantation. In all reports we have identified, this infection has been fatal, diagnosed postmortem. We present a patient in whom early echocardiographic diagnosis resulted in curative surgical and antimicrobial therapy. Fungal endocarditis is an unusu...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wilson HA Jr,Downes TR,Julian JS,White WL,Haponik EF

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to determine the differences between ciliary beat frequencies of respiratory ciliated cells from peripheral bronchioles and from proximal bronchi in humans. DESIGN:Measurements were made from resected lungs. Ciliated cells were harvested by brushing the mucosa of each site immediately ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Clary-Meinesz C,Mouroux J,Huitorel P,Cosson J,Schoevaert D,Blaive B

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve adult patients with ostium primum atrial septal defects (incomplete endocardial cushion defect) who underwent surgical repair of their lesions were evaluated in the late postoperative period. All had closure of the low-lying atrial septal defect, with suturing of the mitral valve cleft in 11 patients. Although ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Goodman DJ,Harrison DC,Schroeder JS

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we have reported in 1990 that 35% of carmustine treated patients (6 of 17) who survived childhood brain tumors died of pulmonary fibrosis between 2 and 13 years after treatment. In addition, 8 patients studied in 1989 (13 to 17 years post treatment), had physiologic and biopsy or radiologic evidence of pul...

journal_title：Chest

authors： O'Driscoll BR,Kalra S,Gattamaneni HR,Woodcock AA

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in the United States. Cigarette smoking is the main risk factor. Former smokers are at a substantially increased risk for lung cancer compared with lifetime never-smokers. Chemoprevention is the use of specific agents to reverse, suppress, or prevent the p...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gray J,Mao JT,Szabo E,Kelley M,Kurie J,Bepler G,American College of Chest Physicians.

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 72-year-old physician with myeloid metaplasia developed marked thrombocytosis, pulmonary hypertension, and right heart failure following splenectomy. No cause for the pulmonary hypertension could be found. The pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure returned to normal when hydroxyurea therapy corrected the th...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Marvin KS,Spellberg RD

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00