Pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.

abstract：:The recent advances in our understanding of breathing in sleep include an evolution in the selection and surgical therapy of patients with the sleep apnea syndrome. Recent work suggests that shorter polysomnographic studies may be adequate for diagnostic purposes in many sleep apnea patients. It is now clear that cent...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Kryger MH,White DP,Zwillich CW,Robinson RW,Guilleminault C

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe asthma remains poorly understood and frustrating to treat, partly because it is a heterogeneous disease. Recent improvements in the definition of severe asthma have allowed better characterization of the phenotypes of severe asthma and the related physiologic and pathologic abnormalities. Early-onset severe ast...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Wenzel S

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis is a worldwide disease. In this time of globalization knowledge about leptospirosis is important. Although pulmonary involvement has an incidence varying from 20% to 70% and its exteriorization may vary from mild to severe, The severe form appears to be becoming more prevalent (at least in Brazil) and ma...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Carvalho CR,Bethlem EP

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complications of tracheotomy are largely preventable. Although some authors cite these complications as indications for prolonged endotracheal intubation to avoid tracheotomy, others believe that the laryngotracheal complications of prolonged endotracheal intubation warrant early tracheotomy. Obviously, unnecessary tr...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Wood DE,Mathisen DJ

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biologic drugs have revolutionized the treatment of certain hematologic, autoimmune, and malignant diseases, but they may place patients at risk for reactivation or acquisition of tuberculosis. This risk is highest with the tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) inhibitors. Amongst this class of drugs, the monoclonal ant...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Godfrey MS,Friedman LN

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that invasive carcinoma of the bronchus develops through a transition from preinvasive lesions to overt malignancy. Newer diagnostic technologies have provided a more sensitive way to diagnose preinvasive lesions and a better understanding of the prevalence of such lesions. The natural history of ...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Rivera MP

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article focuses on thoracoscopy for pleural procedures, both diagnostic and therapeutic, and discusses whether there is a difference between pleuroscopy and thoracoscopy or video-assisted thoracic surgery. How thinking should be structured regarding the management of pleural disease in the modern context of avail...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Detterbeck FC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymerase chain reaction-based diagnosis has become the standard for viral pneumonia and other respiratory tract infections. Expansion of respiratory viral panels (RVPs) outside of influenza and, possibly, respiratory syncytial virus has led to the ability to diagnose viral infections for which no approved specific a...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Wunderink RG

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two recent major guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) recommend consideration of local antibiotic resistance patterns and individual patient risks for resistant pathogens when formulating an initial empiric antibiotic regimen. One recommends against invasive diagnostic techniq...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Metersky ML,Kalil AC

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway inflammation due to exposure to a wide variety of agents encountered in the workplace is a major cause of occupational asthma. This article reviews major examples of occupational asthma linked to airway inflammation, including their epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical course. ...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Fine JM,Balmes JR

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of nitric oxide (NO) and its targets are reviewed physiologically during sepsis and wound healing, a self-limiting process in which mechanisms are still identified incompletely. NO also plays an active and direct role during infection, aimed at protecting the host and destroying the microbe. During septi...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Payen D,Bernard C,Beloucif S

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In summary, the evaluation of the tired patient requires an awareness of the various meanings of tiredness. Furthermore, it is important to differentiate normal sleepiness that is a product of circadian rhythm variation in vigilance from pathologic sleepiness. Sleepiness that results from faulty habits, e.g., altered ...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Moldofsky H

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article assesses the role of pharmacotherapy in the management of respiratory muscle dysfunction. It focuses on two classes of drugs, the methylxanthines and the sympathomimetic agents. A prospective section focuses also on the particularities of the diaphragm among the skeletal striated muscles. In addition, a n...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Aubier M

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleural malignancies are ideal for novel therapeutic approaches because they are invariably fatal. Intrapleural (IP) chemotherapy has only marginal benefit in pleural malignancies, but may prove efficacious with hyperthermic chemotherapy administered in combination with maximal tumor debulking. IP immunotherapies may ...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Haas AR,Sterman DH

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive hemoptysis is a rare, but life-threatening event. Death from massive hemoptysis is usually due to aspiration of blood. Thus, the initial evaluation should occur simultaneously with efforts to control the patient's airway and respiratory status. Therapeutic interventions can be directed with an understanding of...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Thompson AB,Teschler H,Rennard SI

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung transplantation is an accepted treatment for a large number of end-stage pulmonary diseases. There are several complications that pertain specifically to lung transplant recipients, including airway ischemia, reperfusion edema, infections, acute rejection, obliterative bronchiolitis, and other postoperative probl...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Shepard JA

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary function testing (PFT) is used extensively by pulmonary specialists to address two common clinical questions: (1) What is the risk of a postoperative pulmonary complication in an individual with lung disease? and (2) Will the patient be able to tolerate lung resection surgery? Today, there are numerous tests...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Powell CA,Caplan CE

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors attempt to demonstrate those circumstances for which perfusion scintigraphy, by itself, or in combination with ventilation scintiscanning, offers the best adjunctive information in excluding or confirming the presence of pulmonary embolism. They then identify those circumstances in which scintiscanning doe...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Polak JF,McNeil BJ

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The description of organized thrombus in major pulmonary arteries can be found in autopsy reports dating back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Not until the 1950s was the antemortem diagnosis and clinical syndrome of chronic thrombotic obstruction of the major pulmonary arteries better characteriz...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Auger WR,Kim NH,Kerr KM,Test VJ,Fedullo PF

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (Dlco) remains the only noninvasive pulmonary function test to provide an integrated picture of gas exchange efficiency in human lungs. Due to its critical dependence on the accessible "alveolar" volume (Va), there remains substantial misunderstanding on the interpretation o...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Neder JA,Berton DC,Muller PT,O'Donnell DE

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep-related breathing disorders are strongly associated with increased risk of stroke independent of known risk factors. The direction of causation favors sleep-disordered breathing leading to stroke rather than the other way around, although definitive proof of this awaits the results of prospective cohort studies....

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Yaggi H,Mohsenin V

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To conclude, impairment ratings differ among various diseases and compensation programs. It therefore is important to note, at the outset, which compensation program the patient is eligible for because the requirements of the different programs may vary. The physician report must clearly state an opinion using termino...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Sood A,Beckett WS

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past it was believed that respiratory disability could be objectively assessed by comparing the measured O2 consumption requirement of the job with the subjects' measured or estimated maximal oxygen consumption. More recently, it has become clear that this "classic" paradigm does not completely apply to all sit...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Harber P

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There will be many changes in the sleep field in the next 5 to 10 years. These will include increments in our knowledge of the basic neurobiologic mechanisms driving sleep and the impact of sleep loss on general health. The technology used in the sleep laboratory will likely change as well, leading to a larger range o...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： White DP

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs), when used in combination with long-acting bronchodilators, reduce the risk of exacerbations and improve health-related quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) compared with bronchodilator or ICS therapy alone. Potential side effects of ICSs include ...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Mkorombindo T,Dransfield MT

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult respiratory distress syndrome is a reaction of the lung to a variety of severe direct or indirect pulmonary insults. It is characterized by acute respiratory distress, severe hypoxemia requiring high oxygen fractions, and "stiff lungs" requiring approaches to ventilatory management cited elsewhere in this is...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Petty TL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From our studies, it is clear that diaphragm muscle neuromotor control is responsive to alterations in innervation and activation. These adaptations to altered use appear to be most pronounced among fast-twitch motor units composed of type II muscle fibers. Because the plasticity involves diminished contractile streng...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Sieck GC

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although they are complex, the pulmonary-renal syndromes can be readily understood and managed using a clinical approach firmly grounded in the fundamental pathophysiology of these disorders. Several important principles must be borne in mind. First, therapeutic intervention must be preceded by making as firm a diagno...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Young KR Jr

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer remains the most common fatal malignancy, so even modest therapeutic advances are potentially beneficial to large numbers of patients. For patients with regional nodal metastases identified at thoracotomy, adjuvant chemotherapy may be of benefit and additional clinical trials are in progress. Locally advan...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： Murren JR,Buzaid AC

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available targeted therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension are capable only of slowing progression of the disease and a cure remains elusive. However with the improved understanding of the pulmonary vascular remodeling that characterizes the disease, there is optimism that the disconnect between preclinical and ...

journal_title：Clinics in chest medicine

authors： O'Connell C,O'Callaghan DS,Humbert M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00