Coagulation activation and organ dysfunction following cardiac surgery.

abstract：:Autopsy findings and a morphometric study of the lungs were compared in 18 subjects receiving nocturnal oxygen and 15 receiving continuous oxygen in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Nocturnal Oxygen Therapy Trial (about half of those who died). The emphysema score, average interalveolar wall distance, cen...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Jacques J,Cooney TP,Silvers GW,Petty TL,Wright JL,Thurlbeck WM

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this review is to describe our management approach to patients with treatment-emergent central sleep apnea (TECSA). The emergence of central sleep apnea during positive airway pressure therapy occurs in approximately 8% of titration studies for obstructive sleep apnea, and has been associated with sever...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Zeineddine S,Badr MS

更新日期：2021-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glutathione S-transferase (GST) genes are involved in the management of oxidative stress in the lungs. We aimed to determine whether they modify the associations between early life smoke exposure and adverse lung health outcomes. METHODS:The Melbourne Atopy Cohort study (a high-risk birth cohort) enrolled 6...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Dai X,Dharmage SC,Bowatte G,Waidyatillake NT,Perret JL,Hui J,Erbas B,Abramson MJ,Lowe AJ,Burgess JA,Svanes C,Lodge CJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether changes in respiratory chemosensitivity during the menstrual cycle are related to worsening of airway functions, hypoxic and hypercapnic ventilatory and P0.1 responses, airway function, and serum progesterone levels were studied in 11 female asthmatic patients in both the follicular and luteal phase...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Munakata M,Yamamoto H,Akiyama Y,Inaba S,Kawakami Y

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In observational studies using acute lung injury (ALI) as an outcome, a spectrum of lung injury and difficult-to-interpret chest radiographs (CXRs) may hamper efforts to uncover risk factor associations. We assessed the impact of excluding patients with difficult-to-classify or equivocal ALI diagnosis on cli...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Shah CV,Lanken PN,Localio AR,Gallop R,Bellamy S,Ma SF,Flores C,Kahn JM,Finkel B,Fuchs BD,Garcia JG,Christie JD

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the first reported case (to our knowledge) of pulmonary granulomatosis caused by aspirated green tea. In this case, we found granulomatous alveolitis with lymph follicles, T lymphocytosis with predominantly CD8+ cells in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluids, positive serum precipitin and proliferative respons...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sakamoto O,Saita N,Yamasaki H,Tamanoi M,Ando M

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen therapy is an integral part of the treatment of critically ill patients. Maintenance of adequate oxygen delivery to vital organs often requires the administration of supplemental oxygen, sometimes at high concentrations. Although oxygen therapy is lifesaving, it may be associated with deleterious effects when a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Budinger GRS,Mutlu GM

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:This report describes the definitive diagnosis of venous air-embolism by documentation of spontaneous echo contrast in the right cardiac chambers following removal of a jugular venous catheter in a patient with hepatic failure. This complication was potentiated by the presence of concurrent hepatic coagulopathy which ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Marcus RH,Weinert L,Neumann A,Borow KM,Lang RM

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a patient in whom pericardial effusion, two months after coronary bypass surgery, mimicked the presence of a left atrial mass on both echocardiography and cardiac angiography. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Steffenino G,Ferrero G,Forni B,Giustetto C,Ottino G,Conte M

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to determine if garnetting and raw cotton dusts differed in botanical composition. Estimates of dust composition were based on the contents of gross trash in cotton raw materials and the potential of each gross trash component to be converted into less than 10 mum particulate by a laboratory abrasion...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Morey PR

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous echo contrast is uncommon in pericardial effusion. We report the case of a patient with massive malignant pericardial effusion causing cardiac tamponade in which the intense spontaneous echo contrast was found in the effusion by echocardiography. It was suggested that both the heavy blood content and a lar...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Shyu KG,Cheng JJ,Kuan P,Lien WP

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each of 100 chest radiographs selected randomly from a hospital population were read by five experienced radiologists. The films were rich in abnormal findings. Disagreement analysis was performed considering the entire content of the interpretation. The disagreements were graded by a panel as to type (false negative,...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Herman PG,Gerson DE,Hessel SJ,Mayer BS,Watnick M,Blesser B,Ozonoff D

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature on pulmonary function testing in sarcoidosis is critically reviewed. The results indicate that pulmonary function tests are not a reliable means for detecting the presence of parenchymal sarcoidosis, nor do they provide an accurate estimate of the extent of parenchymal disease. There are at present no k...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Winterbauer RH,Hutchinson JF

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case of Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis confined to the mural left atrium is presented. Echocardiographic studies revealed a 1.5 x 2.0-cm vegetation mimicking a myxoma situated in the path of a mitral regurgitant jet on a color Doppler test. Emboli to upper and lower extremities and brain complicated the...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bierbrier GS,Novick RJ,Guiraudon C,Wisenberg G,Boughner D

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We analyze the within-subject variation of mouth occlusion pressure (P0.1) response to progressive isocapnic hypoxic stimulation over long time periods in normal subjects. PATIENTS AND INTERVENTIONS:We studied 21 healthy subjects (14 male and 7 female; aged 40+/-12 yrs) (mean+/-SD). Lung volumes, basal...

journal_title：Chest

authors： García-Río F,Pino-García JM,Racionero MA,Terreros-Caro JG,Gómez-Mendieta MA,Prados C,Villasante C

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arrhythmias that may accompany myocardial reperfusion have generated significant clinical interest. First, there were concerns, based on animal studies, that high-grade ventricular tachyarrhythmias would pose a serious threat following thrombolytic therapy to treat an evolving myocardial infarction. Second, lower-grad...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Krumholz HM,Goldberger AL

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The work of chest inflation, WI, is a primary determinant of the need for ventilatory support and an integrative index of elastic and resistive impedance. Although the mechanical work performed by a ventilator in moving gas into the passive chest (WI = integral of PV dt) can be determined by measuring the area enclose...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Marini JJ,Rodriguez RM,Lamb V

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 15 nonsmoking, clinically stable asthmatic subjects aged 27 to 39 years to evaluate the potential cardiotoxic effects of combined use of a beta-adrenergic agonist drug and theophylline in the treatment of asthma. Subjects underwent a one-week washout period followed by two one-week periods of study receivin...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Coleman JJ,Vollmer WM,Barker AF,Schultz GE,Buist AS

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To describe four patients having total anomalous pulmonary venous connection with an intrapulmonary vertical vein, rendering difficulty in diagnosis and surgery. SETTING:a tertiary referral center. PATIENTS AND METHODS:By reviewing medical records, 4 of 25 patients with right atrial isomerism and tot...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wang JK,Chiu IS,How SW,Wu MH,Wu FF,Hung CR,Lue HC

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-course chemotherapy (SCC) for pulmonary tuberculosis for nine months with isoniazid (INH) and rifampin (RIF) is well established. However, there is still no report on results of such therapy in pleural disease. From January 1976 through December 1984, we treated 201 patients (average age 61.6 years) for pleural ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Dutt AK,Moers D,Stead WW

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of antibiotics into cardiac valvular tissues is incompletely understood. By integrative computer modeling, we have used previously obtained pharmacokinetic data in experimental endocarditis to characterize aminoglycoside distribution within various geographic sectors of aortic vegetations of rabbits a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bayer AS,Crowell D,Nast CC,Norman DC,Borrelli RL

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Unlike thoracocentesis and closed pleural biopsy (CPB), medical thoracoscopy permits biopsy with direct visualization. In a 6-year retrospective study of patients having undergone at least one medical thoracoscopy, we analyzed the diagnostic yield of thoracoscopy and its value in the management of pleu...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Blanc FX,Atassi K,Bignon J,Housset B

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To determine whether African-American race is independently associated with lung disease in scleroderma. DESIGN:Retrospective review. SETTING:University medical center in Baltimore. PATIENTS:One hundred one patients with diffuse cutaneous scleroderma with available serum samples. MEASUREMENTS:Patie...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Greidinger EL,Flaherty KT,White B,Rosen A,Wigley FM,Wise RA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the findings of ventilation and perfusion scintiscanning performed in three untreated patients with acute tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE). In a 26-year-old man whose arterial blood gas values were normal, the lung scan showed normal radioactivity. The scintigrams of a 20-year-old woman who had hypoxemi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ray D,Jayachandran CA

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When evaluating peripheral pulmonary lesions, a 3.0-mm ultrathin bronchoscope (UTB) with a 1.7-mm working channel is advantageous regarding good access to the peripheral airway, whereas a 4.0-mm thin bronchoscope provides a larger 2.0-mm working channel, which allows the use of various instruments including ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Oki M,Saka H,Asano F,Kitagawa C,Kogure Y,Tsuzuku A,Ando M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with ischemic cardiomyopathy who was treated with a continuous high dose infusion of intravenous nitroglycerin for six months while awaiting cardiac transplantation. Surprisingly, methemoglobinemia did not develop and nitroglycerin continued to be clinically effective in relieving angina during the...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Perry GY,Murali S,Uretsky BF

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative usefulness of a combination of some tumor markers, such as CEA, AFP, ferritin and NSE for the diagnosis of lung cancer was assessed by multiple logistic analysis. Serum concentration of these markers was determined in 68 patients with lung cancer (50 with NSCLC and 18 with SCLC, in 68 patients with benign...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lombardi C,Tassi GF,Pizzocolo G,Donato F

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first case (to our knowledge) of acetaminophen-induced eosinophilic pneumonia. Although the patient had taken an acetaminophen-containing combination drug, Kinuya-chinnetsu, for only three days, the abnormal shadow on his chest radiograph continued for about a month. Lymphocyte stimulation tests showed ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kondo K,Inoue Y,Hamada H,Yokoyama A,Kohno N,Hiwada K

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the value of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) for diagnosis, understanding, and treatment of amiodarone-associated pneumonitis, we examined the results of BAL total and differential cell counts and phenotyping of lymphocytes in 22 patients with this lung disorder and in 33 normal subjects. Overall, the total cel...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Akoun GM,Cadranel JL,Blanchette G,Milleron BJ,Mayaud CM

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00