Pocket hematoma after pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator surgery: influence of patient morbidity, operation strategy, and perioperative antiplatelet/anticoagulation therapy.

abstract：:Learning resource centers (LRC) are areas designed for individual study which contain a variety of self-instructional materials. To evaluate the use of LRC in teaching pulmonary medicine, a survey was conducted of medical school pulmonary sections; responses were obtained from 30 sections with an NHLBI pulmonary Acade...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Make BJ

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital readmissions for acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPDs) pose burdens to the health-care system and patients. A current gap in knowledge is whether a predischarge screening and educational tool administered to patients with COPD reduces readmissions and ED visits. METHODS:A single-center, randomized ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Jennings JH,Thavarajah K,Mendez MP,Eichenhorn M,Kvale P,Yessayan L

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical ventilation was able to induce a decrease in cardiac output and regional blood flow, especially hepatic flow. Thus, hepatic elimination of drugs with a high hepatic-extraction ratio, which was linked to alteration in hepatic blood flow, could be reduced during mechanical ventilation. The aim of this work wa...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Richard C,Berdeaux A,Delion F,Riou B,Rimailho A,Giudicelli JF,Auzépy P

更新日期：1986-12-01 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:Identification of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) using questionnaires is critical from a clinical and research perspective. However, which questions to use and how well such questionnaires perform has thus far been fraught with substantial uncertainty. We aimed at delineating the usefulness of a set of que...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Spruyt K,Gozal D

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An obesity paradox, wherein patients who are obese have lower mortality, has been described in cardiopulmonary diseases, including pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Our objective was to determine whether obesity and BMI are associated with mortality in patients with PAH. METHODS:We assessed incident pa...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Weatherald J,Huertas A,Boucly A,Guignabert C,Taniguchi Y,Adir Y,Jevnikar M,Savale L,Jaïs X,Peng M,Simonneau G,Montani D,Humbert M,Sitbon O

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role of red blood cell (RBC) antioxidants as clinical markers of oxidative exposure, we measured RBC glutathione (GSH) concentrations in 32 adult patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), and 8 healthy age-matched control subjects. We chose patients with CF because this disease is characterized by severe bro...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mangione S,Patel DD,Levin BR,Fiel SB

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the incidence and severity of hemolysis in the aortic prosthesis is presented. The noncloth-covered Starr-Edwards prosthetic series 1000, 1200, and 1260 had a 2 percent (1/54) incidence of anemia. The cloth-covered Starr-Edwards aortic prosthetic series 2300 was associated with anemia in 61 percent (28/46)...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Santinga JT,Batsakis JT,Flora JD,Kirsh MM

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to compare the efficacy of coronary thrombolysis obtained with i.v. administration of three dose regimens of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA). Although many studies have confirmed the efficacy of thrombolytic therapy in treatment of acute myocardial infarction, few prospective st...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Prewitt RM,Schick U,Ducas J

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary vascular capacitance (PVC) is reduced in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). In normal lung, PVC is largely a function of vascular compliance. In PAH, increased pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) arises from the arterioles. PVR and PVC share pressure and volume variables. The dependency between...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Newman JH,Brittain EL,Robbins IM,Hemnes AR

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the clinical and radiographic findings of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) other than Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) and Mycobacterium kansasii in AIDS compared with non-AIDS patients. DESIGN:A retrospective chart review of all patients in whom NTM other than MAC complex and M kansasii...

journal_title：Chest

authors： El-Solh AA,Nopper J,Abdul-Khoudoud MR,Sherif SM,Aquilina AT,Grant BJ

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To establish an early diagnosis and have a quantitative estimation of congestion or edema, pulmonary CT scans were performed to detect the increase of regional lung water volume of patients with congestive heart failure. CT scanning of the upper, middle, and lower lung fields at maximum inspiration and hemodynamic ana...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kato S,Nakamoto T,Iizuka M

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from recent surveys indicate that a staggering 34.9% of US adults are overweight. Obese adults are at in increased risk for many chronic medical conditions, and this increases the likelihood of admission to an ICU. The critically ill obese patient presents the ICU team with many unique problems. Obesity may resul...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Marik P,Varon J

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advisability of prolonged oral or nasotracheal intubation is of continuing concern to physicians caring for patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilatory assistance. Currently, in many health care centers, prolonged intubation is defined as being in excess of seven days. We treated a patient who required mec...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Vogelhut MM,Downs JB

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old patient was admitted to the hospital with a history of two syncopal episodes. The results of the physical examination, resting electrocardiogram and His-bundle study were all normal. Study with a 24-hour ECG monitor (Holter) was at first interpreted as demonstrating periods of sinus arrest. However, more...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kronzon I,Schloss M,Bear G

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with a high risk of stroke. The contribution of arrhythmia to events is clear in sustained forms of AF, but in paroxysmal AF, presently available data have yet to identify what proportion of time spent in AF (ie, arrhythmia burden [AFB]) is of clinical relevance. We aim...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Watson T,Arya A,Sulke N,Lip GY

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 17 patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome, we used data derived from computed tomographic (CT) scan densitometric analysis to validate the value of portable chest roentgenograms in objectively estimating the amount of pulmonary edema. Chest roentgenograms and CT scans were taken in the same ventilatory c...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bombino M,Gattinoni L,Pesenti A,Pistolesi M,Miniati M

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are several reports showing that expiratory muscle strength and endurance can be impaired in patients with COPD. This muscle weakness may have clinically relevant implications. Expiratory muscle training tended to improve cough and to reduce the sensation of respiratory effort during exercise in patien...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Weiner P,Magadle R,Beckerman M,Weiner M,Berar-Yanay N

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the methodology for the Seventh American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy: Evidence-Based Guidelines. Guideline authors began by specifying the population, the intervention and alternative, and the outcomes for each clinical question, and d...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Schünemann HJ,Munger H,Brower S,O'Donnell M,Crowther M,Cook D,Guyatt G

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 84 consecutive patients with resting T-wave inversion, radionuclide angiography revealed significant new wall motion abnormalities in 13 (28 percent) of the 47 patients with persistent T-wave inversion and in 23 (62 percent) of the 37 patients with T-wave pseudonormalization during exercise (p less than 0.01). The ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lavie CJ,Oh JK,Mankin HT,Clements IP,Giuliani ER,Gibbons RJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the feasibility of utilizing physician assistants as providers of primary care in a medical ICU. After a three-month period of rigorous training, two PAs were assigned to the ICU. Their performance as well as the operation of the ICU over a two-year period was evaluated and compared to two preceding years...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Dubaybo BA,Samson MK,Carlson RW

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to compare (1) the intensity of leg effort and dyspnea during exercise and (2) subjective limitations to performance in normal subjects, patients receiving medication for cardiac disorders, patients with pulmonary impairment, patients with pulmonary impairment who were also receiving cardiac m...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hamilton AL,Killian KJ,Summers E,Jones NL

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) studied at rest, nifedipine releases hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) and worsens gas exchange. During exercise, this drug lowers pulmonary hypertension, but the effects of this lower pulmonary vascular tone on ventilation-perfusion (VA/Q) relations...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Agustí AG,Barberá JA,Roca J,Wagner PD,Guitart R,Rodriguez-Roisín R

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Great variability exists in the occurrence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in ICUs around the world. The contribution of specific ICU care variables to these geographic variations is unknown. METHODS:ICU patients from two ICUs (in Jerusalem and Toronto) who were admitted for > 48 h and who grew a resistant...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Levin PD,Simor AE,Moses AE,Sprung CL

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated charcoal usually provides effective and safe treatment for drug overdose. We describe a patient who developed bronchiolitis obliterans and respiratory failure following aspiration of activated charcoal. This patient had a markedly reduced vital capacity with roentgenographic evidence of airtrapping. Chest ro...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Elliott CG,Colby TV,Kelly TM,Hicks HG

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Although videothoracoscopic (VTS) resection of Masaoka stage I thymoma has been reported to be a less invasive method than open thoracotomy and to achieve a comparable surgical outcome, the usefulness of this method in the treatment of stage II thymoma has not yet been prospectively evaluated. We there...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Cheng YJ,Kao EL,Chou SH

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of one hour exposures of healthy nonsmoking human volunteers to submicrometer H2SO4 droplets via nasal mask on tracheobronchial mucociliary particle clearance were studied using two different sized monodisperse gamma-tagged Fe2O3 test aerosols. The larger sized Fe2O3 aerosol, 7.5 micrometers AMAD, was depo...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lippmann M,Leikauf G,Spektor D,Schlesinger RB,Albert RE

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Ultrafiltration (UF) can improve the exercise performance of patients with moderate congestive heart failure (CHF). Our aim was to define the starting levels of performance below which UF is beneficial. PATIENTS AND METHOD:We studied 26 patients in 2 to 3 NYHA class, whose clinical condition was stable, left...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Marenzi GC,Lauri G,Guazzi M,Perego GB,Agostoni PG

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a growing understanding of the prevalence and impact of psychological disorders on COPD. However, the role of these disorders in early readmission is unclear. METHODS:We analyzed data from 5% fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with COPD (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Singh G,Zhang W,Kuo YF,Sharma G

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myiasis refers to a parasitic infestation of vertebrate mammals by dipterous larvae (maggots) of higher flies. Infections in humans typically occur in tropical and subtropical regions, regions with limited medical access, and areas with poor hygiene and living conditions. Infestations in humans have been described in ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Patel MB,Munzer K,Dougherty M,Williams P,Loiselle A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00