Mechanisms of improvement in exercise capacity using a rollator in patients with COPD.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of infrared thermometry to measure temperatures in hospitalized patients is increasing. Although infrared thermometers have been proven to be accurate when they are used by well-trained personnel, no previous studies have examined their accuracy during routine hospital use. OBJECTIVE:To determine th...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Amoateng-Adjepong Y,Del Mundo J,Manthous CA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Clinical prediction models for the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have lacked the accuracy necessary to confidently replace polysomnography (PSG). Artificial neural networks are computer programs that can be trained to predict outcomes based on experience. This study was conducted to test t...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kirby SD,Eng P,Danter W,George CF,Francovic T,Ruby RR,Ferguson KA

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The practice of treating a solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) suspicious for stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) in the absence of pathology is growing. In the absence of randomized evidence, the appropriate prior probability threshold of lung cancer of when...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Louie AV,Senan S,Patel P,Ferket BS,Lagerwaard FJ,Rodrigues GB,Salama JK,Kelsey C,Palma DA,Hunink MG

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cases of two lung transplant recipients (one heart-lung and one single lung) who eventually developed cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis after documentation of increasing CMV DNA titers in sequential bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) specimens by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification. To our knowledge,...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Cagle PT,Buffone G,Holland VA,Samo T,Demmler GJ,Noon GP,Lawrence EC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac and pulmonary disease are so closely interrelated that it is often difficult to determine in young infants which is the primary offender. As illustrated in these case reports, failure to recognize the true nature of the disease process may lead to unnecessary procedures and delays which can be life-threatening...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Moss AJ,McDonald LV

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little information is available about the prevalence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) after discharge from cardiac surgery units and its impact on rehabilitation programs. OBJECTIVES:To estimate the rate of DVT, in relation to different thromboprophylaxis strategies, in patients with a recent coronary artery b...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ambrosetti M,Salerno M,Zambelli M,Mastropasqua F,Tramarin R,Pedretti RF

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Important alterations in respiratory function have been observed after open cholecystectomy. These include a decrease in the abdominal tidal volume, forced vital capacity, and forced expiratory volume at 1 s. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a new procedure allowing removal of the gallbladder without a subcostal or mid...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Shulman SM,Chuter T,Weissman C

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a complex syndrome affecting many body systems. Body wasting (ie, cardiac cachexia) is a serious complication of CHF long known but little investigated. Although no specific diagnostic criteria have been established, we have suggested that cardiac cachexia be defined on the basis of the ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Anker SD,Coats AJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of dynamic changes of the QS wave magnitude, as demonstrated in the precordial leads, within the natural evolution of acute anterior wall myocardial infarction (AAMI) was assessed in 25 patients within two weeks of their admission to the intensive cardiac care unit. Two sets of tests, including 12-lea...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Klainman E,Sclarovsky S,Zafrir N,Lewin RF,Farbstein H,Agmon J

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A serum galactomannan (GM) assay has been approved for diagnosing invasive aspergillosis (IA). However, the role of the BAL-GM assay has not been well established. Therefore, we conducted a metaanalysis to determine the overall accuracy of BAL-GM in the diagnosis of IA. METHODS:After a systematic review of ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Guo YL,Chen YQ,Wang K,Qin SM,Wu C,Kong JL

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to characterize the effectiveness of cardiology consultation, the outcomes of consultants' recommendations for diagnostic actions and cardiac drugs were quantitatively examined in 394 cases. Drug recommendations were made more frequently (49 percent) than diagnostic recommendations (38 percent) and were a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mackenzie TB,Popkin MK,Callies AL,Jorgensen CR,Cohn JN

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ventilator discontinuation process is a critical component of ICU care. Ongoing ventilator dependency is caused by both disease factors (eg, respiratory, cardiac, metabolic, and neuromuscular) and clinician management factors (eg, failing to recognize discontinuation potential and inappropriate ventilator settings...

journal_title：Chest

authors： MacIntyre N

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Increasing evidence indicates that routine preoperative diagnostic spirometry (pulmonary function tests [PFTs]) before elective abdominal surgery does not predict individual risk of postoperative pulmonary complications and is overutilized. This economic evaluation estimates potential savings from reduc...

journal_title：Chest

authors： De Nino LA,Lawrence VA,Averyt EC,Hilsenbeck SG,Dhanda R,Page CP

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the effects of upper mantle radiation therapy on pulmonary function, forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), vital capacity (VC), inspiratory capacity (IC), diffusing capacity for CO (DLCO) and diffusion per unit of alveolar volume (DL/VA were determined in 28 patients with Hodgkin's disease, stages 1-...

journal_title：Chest

authors： do Pico GA,Wiley AL Jr,Rao P,Dickie HA

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 75-year-old man with a history of resected colon carcinoma presented to his primary care physician because of a new onset of coughing. The patient had expectorated a small piece of solid tissue; pathologic examination of the tissue found it to be consistent with metastatic colon adenocarcinoma. After further work-up...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Zias EA,Owen RP,Borczuk A,Reichel J,Frater RW

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In response to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality statement questioning the usefulness of “screening spirometry,” the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the COPD Foundation held a consensus conference in June 2008 to establish a procedure to detect cases of COPD in the general populati...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nelson SB,LaVange LM,Nie Y,Walsh JW,Enright PL,Martinez FJ,Mannino DM,Thomashow BM

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 53-year-old woman without any risk factors for coronary artery disease was found to have a congenital intrathoracic left ventricular diverticulum with a narrow long connection to the left ventricular cavity. Coronary angiography revealed normal coronary arteries. The diverticulum was resected and showed three normal...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Suilen C,Friedli B,Rutishauser W

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied eight patients with miliary tuberculosis (TB). In all instances, tuberculomatous lesions were demonstrated in the aspirated bone marrow. We conclude that the bone marrow aspiration has great value in diagnosing miliary TB because it provides sufficient material to permit examination of serial sections as ne...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kinoshita M,Ichikawa Y,Koga H,Sumita S,Oizumi K

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen asymptomatic postmenopausal women volunteered to ingest 2 ml of 100-proof vodka per kg of body weight in orange juice on one night and a placebo on another. Overnight sleep monitoring was performed immediately thereafter. Alcohol ingestion caused reduction in total sleep time from 329 to 281 minutes and a dec...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Block AJ,Hellard DW,Slayton PC

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies on pulmonary hypertension (PH) in systemic sclerosis and related disorders used differing patient populations, and defined PH according to different criteria. We have attempted to determine the prevalence and cause of PH in these disorders using a mainly noninvasive cardiopulmonary evaluatio...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Murata I,Takenaka K,Yoshinoya S,Kikuchi K,Kiuchi T,Tanigawa T,Ito K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of Pasteurella multocida pneumonia and its unusual clinical presentation. We also discuss the rarity of its diagnosis by TPC specimens and the delay in both an adequate diagnosis and treatment. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ruiz-Santana S,Antunez IA,Armas M,Rodriguez de Castro F,Manzano JL

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：:A newborn infant with severe respiratory distress from bilateral diaphragmatic paralysis caused by birth injury was successfully treated with nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Improvement gradually occurred, and CPAP was discontinued after he was 23 days of age. This therapy has advantages over alterna...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Zajkowski EJ,Kravath RE

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (PPFE) is a rare form of interstitial pneumonia and sometimes coexists with a histologic usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern. This study aimed to describe the distinct clinical features of PPFE with UIP pattern compared with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). METHOD...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Oda T,Ogura T,Kitamura H,Hagiwara E,Baba T,Enomoto Y,Iwasawa T,Okudela K,Takemura T,Sakai F,Hasegawa Y

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of small-bore (12 French vanSonnenberg) catheters compared with standard large-bore chest tubes in the drainage and sclerotherapy of malignant pleural effusions. DESIGN:Retrospective review. SETTING:An academic tertiary care hospital. PATIENTS:Adult patients with documented n...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Parulekar W,Di Primio G,Matzinger F,Dennie C,Bociek G

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physicians play a crucial role in providing smoking cessation counseling and medications. However, it is unknown whether individual physicians' approaches affect whether patients quit. RESEARCH QUESTION:This study assessed patient quit rates within a national quality-improvement learning collaborative to do...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Almaaitah S,Ciemins EL,Joshi V,Arora A,Meskow C,Rothberg MB

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are probably observing a recrudescent epidemic of RLF which has elicited surprisingly little attention from the medical community. Given present data, it is not unreasonable to conclude that there is a true epidemic and that its etiologic basis involves a population of infants with high susceptibility to oxygen tox...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Robin ED,Burke CM

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational exposure to aerosolized pentamidine has raised questions regarding transmission of tuberculosis and the effect of the drug itself. To estimate the exposure of a health care worker, we measured the ambient concentration of aerosolized pentamidine in field conditions in 36 m3 unventilated treatment room. Th...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Montgomery AB,Corkery KJ,Brunette ER,Leoung GS,Waskin H,Debs RJ

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages are the most abundant immune cell population in normal lung tissue and serve critical roles in innate and adaptive immune responses as well as the development of inflammatory airway disease. Studies in a mouse model of chronic obstructive lung disease and translational studies of humans with asthma and COP...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Byers DE,Holtzman MJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although NCPAP is the most efficient nonsurgical treatment for patients with OSA, many patients do not accept sleeping with a nose mask. To determine the factors influencing acceptance, treatment with NCPAP was offered to 95 patients with an AHI greater than 15. After the first night on NCPAP, 47 of 65 patients decide...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Rauscher H,Popp W,Wanke T,Zwick H

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00