Natriuretic peptides, respiratory disease, and the right heart.

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：:A patient with unruptured congenital aneurysm of the left coronary sinus of Valsalva presented with acute right-sided heart failure due to right ventricular outflow tract obstruction. The mechanism for such an acute presentation may have been a sudden increase in the size of the aneurysm. The surgical importance of th...

journal_title：Chest

authors： D'Silva SA,Dalvi BV,Lokhandwala YY,Kale PA,Tendolkar AG

更新日期：1992-02-01 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

abstract：:Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, the administration of 100% oxygen at pressures > 1 atm, is believed to promote wound healing by increasing angiogenesis and collagen synthesis. To our knowledge, this treatment modality has never been described in patients with tracheal radionecrosis. Here, we report the case of a 55-year-ol...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ariza-Prota M,Morales A,Grajeda J,López-Lisbona R,Cubero N,Dorca J,Rosell A

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To produce an improved, COPD-specific version of the St. George respiratory questionnaire (SGRQ-C). METHODS:Five different steps were required: (1) Rasch analysis of the responses of 893 COPD patients to the St. George respiratory questionnaire (SGRQ) identified weaker items to be removed; (2) a scoring algo...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Meguro M,Barley EA,Spencer S,Jones PW

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The improved lung deposition of hydrofluoroalkane-134a beclomethasone dipropionate (HFA-BDP) extrafine aerosol compared with chlorofluorocarbon beclomethasone dipropionate (CFC-BDP) suggests that lower doses of HFA-BDP may be required to provide equivalent asthma control. The present study was undertaken to t...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gross G,Thompson PJ,Chervinsky P,Vanden Burgt J

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the long-term clinical course of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) complicated with pulmonary arterial hypertension. DESIGN:Prospective analysis of consecutive IPF patients undergoing initial workup with right-heart catheterization (RHC) and pulmonary function testing (PFT)...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hamada K,Nagai S,Tanaka S,Handa T,Shigematsu M,Nagao T,Mishima M,Kitaichi M,Izumi T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respondents at an interactive symposium on pleural space infections (n = 339) at the 1991 American College of Chest Physicians Annual Scientific Assembly recorded their personal management preferences for hypothetical patients with empyema. The group's preference was to treat pleural sepsis from an anaerobic multilocu...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Strange C,Sahn SA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The tumor microenvironment, of which cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) and tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are the major cellular components, plays an important role in tumor progression. This study evaluated the significance of podoplanin-positive CAFs and CD204-positive TAMs, which may reflect tumor...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ito M,Ishii G,Nagai K,Maeda R,Nakano Y,Ochiai A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the diagnostic use of pleural fluid adenosine deaminase (ADAPF) levels in tuberculous pleuritis (TBpl), with a special reference to HIV coinfection and a Bayesian analysis. METHODS:We investigated a total of 216 patients with pleural effusion, including 100 with TBpl, 68 with malignant effusion,...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Riantawan P,Chaowalit P,Wongsangiem M,Rojanaraweewong P

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the association between left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction and outcomes in patients with idiopathic or heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Our rationale was to investigate the prevalence of LV diastolic dysfunction, and its association with disease severity and out...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tonelli AR,Plana JC,Heresi GA,Dweik RA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exhaled breath temperature (EBT) is a new noninvasive method for the study of inflammatory respiratory diseases with a potential to reach clinical practice. However, few studies are available regarding the validation of this method, and they were mainly derived from small, pediatric populations; thus, the ra...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Carpagnano GE,Foschino-Barbaro MP,Crocetta C,Lacedonia D,Saliani V,Zoppo LD,Barnes PJ

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) is an uncommon pulmonary neoplasm with various radiologic and clinical presentations. In this article, we analyze the initial radiologic findings, TNM stagings, surgical types, and radiologic features of recurrence, and correlate them with patient survival. DESIGN:A r...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Liu YY,Chen YM,Huang MH,Perng RP

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To measure the effect of an altered process of care, directed by a computerized reminder system, on rates of symptomatic postoperative venous thromboembolism. DESIGN:Comparisons of preintervention and postintervention measurements. SETTING:A university-affiliated community hospital in Utah. PATIENTS:...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mosen D,Elliott CG,Egger MJ,Mundorff M,Hopkins J,Patterson R,Gardner RM

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:An overdiagnosis bias occurs with the diagnosis of a disease that does not produce signs or symptoms before the patient dies from other causes. We sought to determine whether overdiagnosis bias is a factor when screening for squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. DESIGN:Retrospective study of the Miyagi Popula...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sato M,Saito Y,Endo C,Sakurada A,Feller-Kopman D,Ernst A,Kondo T

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with ventricular inversion with normally related great vessels and double inlet left ventricle is presented. the patient also showed features of Down's syndrome. Association of ventricular inversion with normally related great vessels is rare and leads to a basic functional state like that of complete transp...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tandon R,Moller JH,Edwards JE

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interest in airways inflammatory disease has increasingly focused on innate immunity. We investigated several components of innate immunity in induced sputum of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), COPD, and asthma, and healthy control subjects. METHODS:Twenty eight patients with mild CF lung disease (age > ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Xiao W,Hsu YP,Ishizaka A,Kirikae T,Moss RB

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To prospectively study all patients with COPD and spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) who underwent thoracoscopic talc poudrage (TP) under local anesthesia to determine its efficacy and safety in recurrence prevention. METHODS:Data on clinical measurements, complications, duration of chest tube drainage, length o...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lee P,Yap WS,Pek WY,Ng AW

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The hypoxia test can be performed to identify potential hypoxia that might occur in an at-risk individual during air travel. In 2004, the British Thoracic Society increased the hypoxia test cutoff guideline from 85 to 90% in young children. The aim of this study was to investigate how well the cutoff values ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Martin AC,Verheggen M,Stick SM,Stavreska V,Oostryck J,Wilson AC,Hall GL

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health threat with significant annual impacts on morbidity and mortality. However, few studies have examined the impact of active and latent TB infection (LTBI) on health-related quality of life (HRQL). METHODS:Patients with recently diagnosed active TB or LTBI patients we...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Marra CA,Marra F,Colley L,Moadebi S,Elwood RK,Fitzgerald JM

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer rates and mortality have risen in epidemic proportions in the United States and other industrialized nations during the 20th century. Case-control and cohort studies performed in the 1950s and 1960s firmly established cigarette smoking as the single greatest risk factor for lung cancer. In the United State...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Samet JM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COPD and OSA are both highly prevalent, which implies that both disorders occurring together (overlap syndrome) is likely to be common based on chance association alone. However, different clinical COPD phenotypes influence the likelihood of coexisting OSA in that the increased lung volumes and low BMI associated with...

journal_title：Chest

authors： McNicholas WT

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The course of 357 balloon inflations performed during 38 angioplasties for single-vessel coronary artery disease was prospectively studied using continuous ECG recording. Ischemic ECG changes appeared during 91 percent of the inflations at a mean of 20 +/- 8 seconds after inflation and resolved in 97 percent of those ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mager A,Sclarovsky S,Wurtzel M,Menkes H,Strasberg B,Rechavia E

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients are described who had congestive heart failure with loculated interlobar air-fluid collections. Although pseudotumor (interlobar effusion) is a well-known finding in congestive heart failure, the additional presence of air is unique. Both are somewhat related to the underlying failure. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Rabinowitz JG,Kongtawng T

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented of a reversible intra-Hisian block occurring under amiodarone treatment for atrial tachycardia in a patient without clear intraventricular conduction abnormalities. His bundle recordings showed an atrial tachycardia with intermittent exit block and greatly prolonged BH and HV intervals (40 and 100 ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Santinelli V,Chiariello M,Ambrosio G,Stanislao M,Condorelli M

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A diagnosis of severe obstructive sleep apnea was made after a 52-year-old hypertensive man developed a large intracranial hemorrhage. Therapeutic noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) for obstructive sleep apnea and hypoventilation was complicated by transient unilateral orbital herniation. As best as can ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lazowick D,Meyer TJ,Pressman M,Peterson D

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In airway diseases such as asthma and COPD, specific structural changes may be observed, very likely secondary to an underlying inflammatory process. Although it is still controversial, airway remodeling may contribute to the development of these diseases and to their clinical expression and outcome. Airway remodeling...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bergeron C,Boulet LP

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the role of open lung biopsy in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), we retrospectively reviewed the cases of 42 patients with AIDS who underwent this procedure for the diagnosis of pulmonary infiltrates. Four patients had no preceding bronchoscopy because the severity of the respirat...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Fitzgerald W,Bevelaqua FA,Garay SM,Aranda CP

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively evaluated the clinical effectiveness of a treatment schedule with intermittent positive pressure ventilation via nasal mask in 49 patients with acute exacerbations of COLD. According to the ability to successfully tolerate a preliminary trial with NIPPV, patients were submitted either to standard tr...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Foglio C,Vitacca M,Quadri A,Scalvini S,Marangoni S,Ambrosino N

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00