Comparison of Dynamic Expiratory CT With Bronchoscopy for Diagnosing Airway Malacia: A Pilot Evaluation.

abstract：:Random assessments of SaO2 were performed via pulse oximetry in 274 hospitalized non-ICU patients prescribed supplemental O2 in a large tertiary care university hospital. In 507 assessments performed in patients inspiring the prescribed O2, 426 were receiving excessive amounts of O2 to maintain a SaO2 > or = 92 percen...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Albin RJ,Criner GJ,Thomas S,Abou-Jaoude S

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess whether the presence and duration of air leaks after lobectomy are associated with an increased incidence of cardiopulmonary complications. METHODS:Propensity score analysis was used on 726 patients undergoing pulmonary lobectomy from 1995 through 2004 to form three well-matched pairs of patients: pa...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Brunelli A,Xiume F,Al Refai M,Salati M,Marasco R,Sabbatini A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen patients were treated at the Los Angeles County Harbor/UCLA Medical Center between 1971 and 1986 for tuberculosis of the spine. Fourteen were immigrants, a high-risk group. A high index of suspicion is required for Pott's disease, which occurs in fewer than 1 percent of patients with tuberculosis, often prese...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Omari B,Robertson JM,Nelson RJ,Chiu LC

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cigarette smoking is associated with worse symptoms in asthma and abnormal segmental airways in healthy subjects. We tested the hypothesis that current symptom control in smokers with asthma is associated with altered segmental airway dimensions measured by CT scan. METHODS:In 93 subjects with mild, moderat...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Thomson NC,Chaudhuri R,Spears M,Messow CM,MacNee W,Connell M,Murchison JT,Sproule M,McSharry C

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To assess the consequences of nitrate withdrawal in angina-free and hemodynamically stable coronary patients. DESIGN:Prospective, open, intervention study. SETTING:Cardiology outpatient clinic of a university-affiliated municipal hospital. PATIENTS:Angina-free patients who were hemodynamically stabl...

journal_title：Chest

authors： George J,Kitzis I,Zandorf D,Golovner M,Shapira I,Laniado S,Roth A

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute or short-term complications following the use of flow-directed balloon-tipped catheters are well recognized. Long-term sequelae are rarely reported. We report herein an early complication of pulmonary arterial rupture with infarction followed by the delayed development of a pulmonary arterial aneurysm. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Smart FW,Husserl FE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Biochemical and inflammatory markers in pleural inflammation were evaluated in pediatric cases of parapneumonic effusions, and interleukin (IL)-8 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha concentrations were tested for possible differentiation of the complicated nature of effusions. PATIENTS:Twenty-eight ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Utine GE,Ozcelik U,Yalcin E,Dogru D,Kiper N,Aslan A,Kanra G

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:COPD is often associated with changes of the structure and the function of the heart. Although functional abnormalities of the right ventricle (RV) have been well described in COPD patients with severe hypoxemia, little is known about these changes in patients with normoxia and mild hypoxemia. STUDY OBJECTI...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Vonk-Noordegraaf A,Marcus JT,Holverda S,Roseboom B,Postmus PE

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Several studies have demonstrated the superiority of salmeterol and formoterol to either regular treatment with albuterol or placebo. However, to date there have been no trials comparing the efficacy of salmeterol and formoterol in patients with severe asthma. DESIGN:We undertook a randomized, placebo-...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nightingale JA,Rogers DF,Barnes PJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe trends of reported alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency mortality in the United States from 1979-1991. METHODS:We analyzed death certificate reports in the multiple-cause mortality files compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics. RESULTS:Of the 26,866,600 deaths that occurred during the 13...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Browne RJ,Mannino DM,Khoury MJ

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Clinical practice guidelines have been devised to change practitioner performance and to improve the process and outcomes of care. The objective of this study was to determine whether adherence to a practice guideline on noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV) for the treatment of patients with acut...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sinuff T,Cook DJ,Randall J,Allen CJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:99mTechnetium stannous pyrophosphate has been shown to accumulate in acutely infarcted myocardium. To determine if the isotope is also taken up by severely ischemic, but not necrotic myocardium, we performed myocardial scintigraphic studies in 17 patients with chest pains. Seven of the patients satisfied conventional ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Abdulla AM,Canedo MI,Cortez BC,McGinnis KD,Wilhelm SK

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:99mTechnetium macroaggregated albumin has successfully been used to define severe postoperative pulmonary vasoconstriction in a four-month-old boy with D-transposition of the great vessels who had undergone a Blalock-Hanlon surgical atrial septectomy. Radionuclide imaging documented clinically suspected pulmonary vaso...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Moodie DS,Levy JM,Kahn DR,Lieberman LM,Pastakia B

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the individual and joint effect of various pretreatment clinical characteristics on the survival of patients with mesothelioma treated by the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB). PATIENTS AND METHODS:Between June 1984 and September 1994, 337 patients with malignant mesothelioma and no prior chemothe...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Herndon JE,Green MR,Chahinian AP,Corson JM,Suzuki Y,Vogelzang NJ

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To gain more knowledge of changes in main pulmonary artery flow and right ventricular mass and volumes in patients with pulmonary hypertension during epoprostenol therapy. METHODS:Eleven patients (9 women) were evaluated before the start of therapy and every 4 months thereafter. Right and left ventricular v...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Roeleveld RJ,Vonk-Noordegraaf A,Marcus JT,Bronzwaer JG,Marques KM,Postmus PE,Boonstra A

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeated aortic prosthetic valve endocarditis and aortic root abscesses were successfully treated by implantation of a valved conduit into the ascending aorta and by placement of saphenous vein grafts to the aorta distal to the conduit and to the right and left anterior descending coronary arteries. This procedure pro...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Abe T,Sugiki K,Komatsu S

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We assessed whether transpleural methods for diagnosing peripheral lung cancer, such as needle aspiration or tumor excision, affect relapse and prognosis, because these techniques have potential to spread malignant cells from the tumor. DESIGN:A retrospective study. SETTING:National referral hospital....

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sawabata N,Maeda H,Ohta M,Hayakawa M

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:IV epoprostenol treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) has been believed to require an indefinite duration of therapy OBJECTIVE:To describe the successful discontinuation of long-term epoprostenol therapy in four patients DESIGN:Case reports SETTING:Outpatient clinic, tertiary-care hospital P...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kim NH,Channick RN,Rubin LJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) often hypoventilate during sleep with marked falls in oxygen saturation (SaO2%). This occurs most commonly during REM sleep, when there is a reduction in rib cage excursion and a fall in end-expiratory lung volume (EELV). The aim of this study was to examine the effect of nocturnal n...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Regnis JA,Piper AJ,Henke KG,Parker S,Bye PT,Sullivan CE

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Portable monitoring is a convenient means for diagnosing sleep apnea. However, data on whether one night of monitoring is sufficiently precise for the diagnosis of sleep apnea are limited. RESEARCH QUESTION:The current study sought to determine the variability and misclassification in disease severity over ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Punjabi NM,Patil S,Crainiceanu C,Aurora RN

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eosinophils contain granule proteins such as eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) that have proinflammatory effects on airways. ECP may be released on activation of eosinophils into the plasma and is widely used as a marker of bronchial hyperreactivity and allergic inflammation. Environmental factors as well as...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Domej W,Schwaberger G,Tilz GP,Földes-Papp Z,Demel U,Lang J,von Duvillard SP

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tobacco smoke is a major risk factor in the development of COPD. Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure is a known risk factor in asthma, bronchitis, and coronary artery disease. Elastin is a recognized target for injury in COPD, and the amino acids desmosine and isodesmosine (D/I), which are specific for elastin d...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Slowik N,Ma S,He J,Lin YY,Soldin OP,Robbins RA,Turino GM

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:We analyzed seven patients with beta-thalassemia intermedia presenting with congestive heart failure secondary to pulmonary hypertension. This condition has been recognized only recently as part of the clinical spectrum of beta-thalassemia. Our group of patients included two men and five women with the clinical pictur...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Aessopos A,Stamatelos G,Skoumas V,Vassilopoulos G,Mantzourani M,Loukopoulos D

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CASE PRESENTATION:A 32-year-old Nigerian woman, who became pregnant after undergoing in vitro fertilization, was admitted with nausea and abdominal pain. She had a history of two miscarriages and infertility because of tubal blockage treated by salpingectomy. One week prior, she presented to an outside hospital with pr...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Amin S,Stone D,Anderlind C

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the incidence, pattern and clinical importance of endotoxemia in septic shock, frequent, serial endotoxin determinations were made prospectively in patients with shock. Detectable endotoxin occurred in 43 of 100 patients with septic shock, but in only one of ten patients with shock due to nonseptic causes....

journal_title：Chest

authors： Danner RL,Elin RJ,Hosseini JM,Wesley RA,Reilly JM,Parillo JE

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient had repetitive ventricular fibrillation preceded by alternating ST segment depression and elevation. The ECG changes were confined to the precordial leads only, reflecting subendocardial and transmural ischemia, respectively. It is speculated that the patient exhibited consecutive episodes of subtotal and to...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Rechavia E,Sagie A,Kusniec J,Mager A,Sclarovsky S

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection of appropriate chemotherapeutic and/or radiation therapy for small cell lung cancer should be done after careful diagnosis and staging workup. A patient with small cell lung cancer is presented and explanation given for each step in diagnosis and staging. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： O'Donnell WJ

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) are currently living to their fourth decade and are making reproductive decisions. Information concerning the reproductive health of women with CF has been limited to small or single-center studies. DESIGN:We conducted a matched parallel-cohort study to assess the im...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Goss CH,Rubenfeld GD,Otto K,Aitken ML

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00