Description and validation of the apnea risk evaluation system: a novel method to diagnose sleep apnea-hypopnea in the home.

abstract：:Twenty-eight patients developed severe, progressive acute respiratory insufficiency despite aggressive application of conventional respiratory therapy. Application of increased PEEP (18 torr or greater) resulted in a significant decrease in QA/QT. Selection of the optimal levle of PEEP for each patient required seria...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kirby RR,Downs JB,Civetta JM,Modell JH,Dannemiller FJ,Klein EF,Hodges M

更新日期：1975-02-01 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：:Studies using epicardial mapping on patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome have demonstrated that the delta vector of the electrocardiogram is a detector of the location of at least one bypass tract. In order to relate the electrical activities (preexcitation) with the mechanical activity (septal and ventricular...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lebovitz JA,Mandel WJ,Laks MM,Kraus R,Weinstein S

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:alpha(1)-Antitrypsin (AAT)-Z deficiency is a risk factor for the development of COPD. Compared to wild-type M, AAT-Z has an increased tendency to polymerize, rendering it inactive as a serine proteinase inhibitor. It has been demonstrated that wild-type M- and Z-deficiency AAT polymers are chemotactic for hu...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Persson C,Subramaniyam D,Stevens T,Janciauskiene S

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The echocardiographic diagnosis of acute rupture of a papillary muscle is described. The pertinent findings included (1) decreased systolic motion of the posterior wall, (2) exaggerated septal motion, (3) left ventricular enlargement and pattern suggesting left ventricular diastolic overload, and (4) bizarre flutterin...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ahmad S,Kleiger RE,Connors J,Krone R

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess, by systematic review, the efficacy and safety of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) in the treatment of lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT). A secondary objective is to assess the optimal dose and route of administration of rt-PA. METHODS:Included studies were randomized, co...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Forster A,Wells P

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) evaluation based on analyses of combined wash-in (WI) and washout (WO) values obtained by helical dynamic CT (HDCT) scanning is useful for malignant SPN characterization, because this method has higher specificity and accuracy than that based on analyses of WI values only. How...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lee KS,Yi CA,Jeong SY,Jeong YJ,Kim S,Chung MJ,Kim HY,Kim YK,Lee KH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the degree of ventilatory constraint in patients with a history of chronic heart failure (CHF; n = 11; mean +/- SE age, 62 +/- 4 years; cardiac index [CI], 2.0 +/- 0.1; and ejection fraction [EF], 24 +/- 2%) and in control subjects (CTLS; n = 8; age, 61 +/- 5 years; CI, 2.6 +/- 0.3) by plotting the tidal f...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Johnson BD,Beck KC,Olson LJ,O'Malley KA,Allison TG,Squires RW,Gau GT

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of cytotoxic oxygen radicals by activated granulocytes is a proposed mechanism of lung injury in ARDS. Protective effects of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) have been described in experimental and clinical ARDS. NAC could act in part by replenishing the intracellular stores of glutathione (GSH) in activated gran...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Laurent T,Markert M,Feihl F,Schaller MD,Perret C

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitary extramedullary plasmacytomas are uncommon neoplasms. They occur most frequently in the upper aerodigestive tract and account for 4% of the nonepithelial tumors in this site. The evolution of a plasmacytoma is unsteady and symptoms at presentation have included dystonia, dysphagia, oral pain, cough, and dyspne...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Byrd RP Jr,Roy TM,Bentz W,Mehta JB

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We hypothesized that pentoxifylline, administered after phorbol myristate acetate (PMA), would diminish the severity of lung injury. SETTING:Animal research laboratory. DESIGN:Comparative study. SUBJECTS:Mongrel dogs (n = 33). INTERVENTIONS:Baseline measurements were obtained from the isolated blood-perfu...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Creamer KM,McCloud LL,Fisher LE,Ehrhart IC

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient who suffered from a bacterial pneumonia and had a left-sided infiltrate on his chest radiograph. He was found to be cytopenic and acute myeloid leukemia was diagnosed. A complete remission was achieved after chemotherapy, and the patient was scheduled to have autologous bone marrow transplantatio...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sutedja T,Kwa B,van Kamp H,van Zandwijk N

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a follow-up to a previous assessment of complications of sleep-disturbed breathing in 265 patients, we have reevaluated measures of sleepiness and hypertension in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) (n = 518), central sleep apnea (n = 50), and subclinical sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) (n = 107). Both sub...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mendelson WB

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of cardiovascular and pulmonary limitation in performing maximal exercise is contrasted in patients with mitral valve disease (MVD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The ventilatory (VE) gas exchange (VO2 and VCO2) and heart rate (HR) responses to an incremental cycle ergometer exercise were m...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nery LE,Wasserman K,French W,Oren A,Davis JA

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the increasing aging population and the high prevalence of OSA in elderly adults, little is known about cognitive effects of OSA and the effectiveness of CPAP treatment. Therefore, this study investigated whether elderly patients with OSA present cognitive deficits and functional and structural alter...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Dalmases M,Solé-Padullés C,Torres M,Embid C,Nuñez MD,Martínez-Garcia MÁ,Farré R,Bargalló N,Bartrés-Faz D,Montserrat JM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-two patients with mitral stenosis underwent cardiac catheterization with coronary angiography. Twenty-one patients (26 percent) had coronary artery disease. Characteristics of the mitral valve area, cardiac output, pulmonary artery pressure, pulmonary vascular resistance, left ventricular end-diastolic pressure...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Chun PK,Gertz E,Davia JE,Cheitlin MD

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary disease due to talc, a group of hydrous magnesium silicates, is almost exclusively encountered after occupational exposure. One form of this rare disorder is talc granulomatosis. In varying degrees, hypercalcemia is typical of granulomatous disease but has not yet been reported in talcosis. We report the cas...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Woywodt A,Schneider W,Goebel U,Luft FC

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symptom-limited supine bicycle exercise with radionuclide angiography was performed on 11 patients with severe mitral regurgitation (who were not receiving vasodilators), to assess changes in left ventricular volume, regurgitant fraction, forward flow and regurgitant flow during exercise. All patients were in normal s...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lavie CJ,Lam JB,Gibbons RJ

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra- and interobserver variations in the measurement of systolic time intervals (STIs) by three experienced cardiologists were investigated in 20 tracings on which phonocardiograms, carotid pulse and electrocardiograms were recorded simultaneously. The STIs studied were the time interval from the Q wave to the aorti...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ishikawa K,Ishikawa M,Morihara H,Yanagisawa A,Muramatsu J,Sawayama T,Maeda K

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM OF STUDY:To evaluate patient profiles, diagnostic approaches, and treatment strategies in patients with lymph node tuberculosis. METHODS:Demographic data, diagnostic findings, and therapies were retrospectively analyzed in 60 patients with lymph node tuberculosis who were hospitalized between 1992 and 1999. RESUL...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Geldmacher H,Taube C,Kroeger C,Magnussen H,Kirsten DK

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional echocardiography showed myocardial thickening in 3 of 16 acute myocarditis patients in childhood. In all 3 cases, this myocardial thickening was transient and diminished within 3 weeks. This myocardial thickening was most marked at a few days after the onset; the interventricular septal thickness for e...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nakagawa M,Hamaoka K

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with COPD often have reduced inspiratory muscle strength and endurance as well as poor exercise tolerance. Increased inspiratory work during sleep (probably due to increased upper airway resistance) may further strain these compromised respiratory muscles in COPD patients. We hypothesized that nasal continuou...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mezzanotte WS,Tangel DJ,Fox AM,Ballard RD,White DP

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary function studies were conducted one to two days prior to, two weeks after, and an average of 116 days after coronary artery revascularization surgery. Preoperation it was found that 11 of 19 patients had mild to moderate obstruction, 8 of 17 had diffusing capacity less than 80 percent of predicted, and 9 of ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Braun SR,Birnbaum ML,Chopra PS

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We analyzed the effects of the use of a rollator on walking distance and physiologic variables: pulmonary gas exchange, heart rate, minute ventilation (Ve), oxygen saturation, and symptoms during the 6-min walk test (6MWT) in patients with COPD. SETTING:Outpatient clinic at university hospital. PATIEN...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Probst VS,Troosters T,Coosemans I,Spruit MA,Pitta Fde O,Decramer M,Gosselink R

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mid-portion of the maximal expiratory flow-volume (MEFV) curve is often described by values of the mean forced expired flow as lung volume decreases from 75% to 25% of vital capacity (ie, forced expiratory flow, midexpiratory phase [FEF(25-75)]). It is common practice to report also forced expired flow a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bar-Yishay E,Amirav I,Goldberg S

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prostasin, a trypsin-like serine protease, is a channel-activating protease and major regulator of epithelial sodium channel-mediated sodium absorption. Its direct inhibition by camostat represents a potential approach to inhibiting sodium transport in cystic fibrosis (CF). METHODS:To determine whether a to...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Rowe SM,Reeves G,Hathorne H,Solomon GM,Abbi S,Renard D,Lock R,Zhou P,Danahay H,Clancy JP,Waltz DA

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates that when the heart is markedly displaced posteriorly to the left, or perhaps to the right, the posterior approach may make echocardiographic evaluation possible. Thus, in a patient with congenital unilateral absence of the left pulmonary artery, with marked displacement of the heart posteriorl...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Borgeson E,Vogel JH

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:COPD is a heterogeneous disease demonstrating inter-individual variation. A high COPD prevalence in Chinese populations is described, but little is known about disease clusters and prognostic outcomes in the Chinese population across Southeast Asia. We aim to determine if clusters of Chinese patients with CO...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tiew PY,Ko FWS,Narayana JK,Poh ME,Xu H,Neo HY,Loh LC,Ong CK,Mac Aogáin M,Tan JHY,Kamaruddin NH,Sim GJH,Lapperre TS,Koh MS,Hui DSC,Abisheganaden JA,Tee A,Tsaneva-Atanasova K,Chotirmall SH

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:We designed and performed a survey to assess the roles and knowledge level of physicians, by specialty, in the management of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The primary objective was to evaluate the potential variability of physician perceptions of prognosis, recommended treatments, and the impact ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Perez EA

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00