Health-related quality of life trajectories among adults with tuberculosis: differences between latent and active infection.

abstract：:Twenty-six adults (23 to 58 years) with mild to moderate asthma underwent a 10-week supervised rehabilitation program, with emphasis on physical training. In the first 2 weeks, they exercised daily in an indoor swimming pool (33 degrees C) and received education about asthma, medication, and principles of physical tra...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Emtner M,Herala M,Stålenheim G

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To examine the association of occult atherosclerosis of carotid, femoral, and popliteal arteries with the presence and severity of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients without a history or presence of cerebrovascular or peripheral arterial disease using ultrasound examination of periph...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kafetzakis A,Kochiadakis G,Laliotis A,Peteinarakis I,Touloupakis E,Igoumenidis N,Katsamouris A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Successful management of chronic cough has varied in the primary research studies in the reported literature. One of the potential reasons relates to a lack of intervention fidelity to the core elements of the diagnostic and/or therapeutic interventions that were meant to be used by the investigators. METHO...

journal_title：Chest

authors： French CT,Diekemper RL,Irwin RS,Adams TM,Altman KW,Barker AF,Birring SS,Blackhall F,Bolser DC,Boulet LP,Braman SS,Brightling C,Callahan-Lyon P,Canning BJ,Chang AB,Coeytaux R,Cowley T,Davenport P,Diekemper RL,Ebihara

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systolic time interval studies were performed to evaluate left ventricular performance in 28 patients with untreated systemic hypertension but without clinical heart failure. The pre-ejection period (PEP) was significantly prolonged (p smaller than 0.001) and left ventricular ejectime time (LVET) was shortened (p smal...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Dodek A,Burg JR,Kloster FR

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to determine the differences between ciliary beat frequencies of respiratory ciliated cells from peripheral bronchioles and from proximal bronchi in humans. DESIGN:Measurements were made from resected lungs. Ciliated cells were harvested by brushing the mucosa of each site immediately ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Clary-Meinesz C,Mouroux J,Huitorel P,Cosson J,Schoevaert D,Blaive B

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 72-year-old physician with myeloid metaplasia developed marked thrombocytosis, pulmonary hypertension, and right heart failure following splenectomy. No cause for the pulmonary hypertension could be found. The pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure returned to normal when hydroxyurea therapy corrected the th...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Marvin KS,Spellberg RD

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:COPD is characterized by chronic airflow limitation and inflammation of the respiratory tract. Several inflammatory biomarkers have been evaluated in COPD but are poorly related to disease severity and progression. Osteoprotegerin (OPG) is a glycoprotein mediator that is expressed in the lung and macrophages...

journal_title：Chest

authors： To M,Ito K,Ausin PM,Kharitonov SA,Barnes PJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the case reported, a patient with severe right ventricular failure following coronary revascularization was successfully weaned from cardiopulmonary bypass following creation of an atrial septal defect. This technique facilitated rapid decompression of the failing right ventricle by shunting blood to the more compl...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Swanson MJ,Fabaz AG,Jung JY

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary specimens obtained from ten normal subjects and 53 patients with various pulmonary diseases were studied with energy-dispersive x-ray analysis. The amount of silicon in the pulmonary tissue was determined and expressed as a silicon/sulfur (Si/S) ratio. This Si/S ratio was below 0.2 in the ten normal subjects...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Funahashi A,Schlueter DP,Pintar K,Siegesmund KA

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Native valve endocarditis normally presents with fever and only later in its course demonstrates dysfunction of the affected valve. We describe a case of endocarditis due to Neisseria subflava, a Gram-negative diplococcal saprophyte of the oral cavity, which was unsuspected clinically and found unexpectedly during a m...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Amsel BJ,Moulijn AC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ozone can cause pulmonary edema and simultaneously decrease blood pressure. Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) may mediate both of these effects in that it increases pulmonary capillary permeability resulting in edema formation and vasodilates the vascular system. The present investigation was designed to test directly t...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Vesely DL,Giordano AT,Raska-Emery P,Montgomery MR

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia was suggested by a diffuse, bilateral pulmonary uptake of gallium-67 in an asymptomatic, homosexual male with the antibody to the immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who was undergoing staging evaluation for lymphoma clinically localized to a left inguinal lymph node. Chest radiograph and pulmo...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Reiss TF,Golden J

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study represents an analysis of 13 cases of ruptured interventricular septum occurring as a complication of myocardial infarction. The cases considered appeared to divide themselves into two groups. One group survived the septal rupture for weeks or months and underwent surgery in the chronic stage. The patients ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kaplan MA,Harris CN,Kay JH,Parker DP,Magidson O

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The epigenetic basis for human asthma is not well studied, particularly among older adults. This study investigated the methylation profiles in sputum DNA among older adults with asthma, using a population of smokers. METHODS:This was a cross-sectional study using the Lovelace Smokers Cohort, a population of...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sood A,Petersen H,Blanchette CM,Meek P,Picchi MA,Belinsky SA,Tesfaigzi Y

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery fistulas have been traditionally diagnosed by angiography. This report describes a congenital and a traumatic coronary artery fistula diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography. Transesophageal echocardiography was superior to transthoracic echocardiography in both cases and to angiography in one ca...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Prewitt KC,Smolin MR,Coster TS,Vernalis MN,Bunda M,Wortham DC

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acetazolamide and medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) are two respiratory stimulants that can be used in patients with stable hypercapnic COPD. DESIGN AND METHODS:The effects of acetazolamide, 250 mg bid, and MPA, 30 mg bid, on daytime and nighttime blood gas values and the influences on the hypercapnic and h...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wagenaar M,Vos P,Heijdra Y,Teppema L,Folgering H

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：INTRODUCTION:The specific causes and mechanism(s) for asthma occurring among occupants of non-residential buildings with poor indoor air quality are not known, but allergic and nonallergic processes are possible explanations METHODS:Repeated indoor air quality measurements were made while employees were working in a b...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Brooks SM,Spaul W,McCluskey JD

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of thoracic radiation therapy in the management of limited-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is reviewed. Although chest irradiation has been used to treat SCLC for over four decades, its standard role in the management of limited-stage disease was established only during the last decade. Multiple prospecti...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kumar P

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marked airway obstruction and interference with gas exchange was encountered following institution of general anesthesia for resection of a cystic subcarinal mass. Intraoperative bronchoscopy revealed marked airway compression. The cyst was decompressed using a transbronchial needle through a fiberbronchoscope. This a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： McDougall JC,Fromme GA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is a valid surrogate for hemodynamic significance in stenotic native coronary arteries, but its validity in patients with coronary stent restenosis is unknown. DESIGN:Prospective. SETTING:University hospital. PATIENTS:We studied 42 patients (mean age +/- 1 SD, 62 +/- 10 years)...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Krüger S,Koch KC,Kaumanns I,Merx MW,Hanrath P,Hoffmann R

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To compare the oxygen pulse curve (O(2)P-C) as measured during cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) with left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (LVEF) rest-exercise response as measured by multigated equilibrium (99m)Tc radionuclide cineangiography (MUGA) in patients with different degrees of ische...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Klainman E,Fink G,Lebzelter J,Krelbaumm T,Kramer MR

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study attempts to determine the distribution of transudates vs exudates in pathologically proved malignant pleural effusions and the necessity for cytologic studies in patients with a transudative effusion. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A retrospective review of all cytologically positive malignant pleural effusi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Assi Z,Caruso JL,Herndon J,Patz EF Jr

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute chest syndrome complicating sickle cell anemia may progress to adult respiratory distress syndrome despite appropriate therapy. Extra-alveolar air leaks may complicate the care of these patients as conventional mechanical ventilation becomes increasingly difficult. We successfully treated a child with sickle cel...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Baird JS,Johnson JL,Escudero J,Powars DR

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Traditional diagnostic tests for pericardial tuberculosis (TB) are insensitive and often require long culture periods, and this has led to more emphasis being placed on biochemical tests such as the pericardial adenosine deaminase (ADA) test. However, controversy exists as to its diagnostic utility. In addit...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Burgess LJ,Reuter H,Carstens ME,Taljaard JJ,Doubell AF

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several reports have implicated pregnancy as a cause of deterioration in patients with pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas. We report a 27-year-old woman with multiple pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas who required coil spring embolotherapy in her 24th week of pregnancy due to a spontaneous hemothorax and hypoxemia. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gammon RB,Miksa AK,Keller FS

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To determine attitudes and knowledge about sleep medicine among chest physicians. DESIGN:: Interactive survey of self-selected respondents. SETTING:Interactive session at the 1998 American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) annual meeting. PARTICIPANTS:Approximately 60 chest physicians. INTERVENTIO...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Phillips B,Collop N,Goldberg R

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is associated with major inflammatory triggers that cause marked activation of the microcirculation. This inflammatory response is associated with significant organ dysfunction. How this response causes organ dysfunction is not well understood; conseque...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Dixon B,Santamaria J,Campbell D

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During medical procedures with the potential to produce aerosols such as bronchoscopy, intubation, or CPR, health-care workers (HCWs) may be exposed to infectious bioaerosols. This scenario is of particular concern when high consequence pathogens such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Doggett N,Chow CW,Mubareka S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Patients with COPD are at risk of experiencing a deterioration in arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2) during sleep, which is generally most pronounced during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Increased cholinergic tone has been suggested as a contributing factor to this decrease in SaO2. Therefore, we inve...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Martin RJ,Bartelson BL,Smith P,Hudgel DW,Lewis D,Pohl G,Koker P,Souhrada JF

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00