Determinants of exhaled nitric oxide in chronic rhinosinusitis.

abstract：:Exacerbations of sarcoidosis are common. In particular, exacerbations of pulmonary sarcoidosis are reported in more than one-third of patients. Despite their frequent occurrence, there is little medical evidence concerning the definition, diagnosis, and treatment of pulmonary exacerbations of sarcoidosis. In this arti...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Panselinas E,Judson MA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We treated five patients with a past history of tuberculous pleural infection that led to chronic, quiescent, loculated empyema. Reactivation of TB was associated with formation of BPF and recovery of drug-susceptible Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputum. All patients had recurrence of positive sputum cultures that ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Iseman MD,Madsen LA

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the accuracy and practicality of the Apnea Risk Evaluation System (ARES; Advanced Brain Monitoring; Carlsbad, CA), a limited-channel system for diagnosing sleep apnea/hypopnea in the home. DESIGN:Prospective randomized study with blinded analysis. SETTINGS:Two independent, community-based...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Westbrook PR,Levendowski DJ,Cvetinovic M,Zavora T,Velimirovic V,Henninger D,Nicholson D

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Takayasu's arteritis is a vasculitis characterized by inflammation and obliteration of large- and medium-sized arteries and has not been previously associated with interstitial pulmonary fibrosis. A patient with Takayasu's arteritis was shown to have interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and mesangial glomerulonephritis, su...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Greene NB,Baughman RP,Kim CK

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Planning for mass critical care in resource-poor and constrained settings has been largely ignored, despite large, densely crowded populations who are prone to suffer disproportionately from natural disasters. As a result, disaster response has been suboptimal and in many instances hampered by lack of planni...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Geiling J,Burkle FM Jr,West TE,Uyeki TM,Amundson D,Dominguez-Cherit G,Gomersall CD,Lim ML,Luyckx V,Sarani B,Christian MD,Devereaux AV,Dichter JR,Kissoon N,Task Force for Mass Critical Care.,Task Force for Mass Critical Care

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiographic documentation after single lung transplant showed pulmonary venous obstruction due to compression by the omental pedicle. Retransplantation is described, and this complication is examined. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Malden ES,Kaiser LR,Gutierrez FR

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initial evaluation of 22 patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) on entry into a trial of home oxygen therapy was used to elucidate the possible effects of poor nutritional status on exercise performance in CF. The patients had advanced lung disease (mean FEV1, 36 percent predicted) and all had a stable resting PaO2 less t...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Marcotte JE,Canny GJ,Grisdale R,Desmond K,Corey M,Zinman R,Levison H,Coates AL

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 48-year-old man with unipolar depression and a psychosexual problem concerning his body image was injecting his scrotum repeatedly with olive oil to increase the size of his genitals. He developed respiratory failure following accidental intravenous injection of olive oil and was found to have lipogranulomatous lesi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bhagat R,Holmes IH,Kulaga A,Murphy F,Cockcroft DW

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To describe the health-related quality of life (HRQL) and mental health of persons with sarcoidosis, as well as to assess physician-patient agreement about the presence of sarcoidosis symptoms. DESIGN AND SETTING:Cross-sectional study at three university medical center outpatient pulmonary clinics. P...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Cox CE,Donohue JF,Brown CD,Kataria YP,Judson MA

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：CASE PRESENTATION:A 72-year-old man underwent endoscopic resection of a 10-mm polypoid sessile lesion of the rectum. Histologic examination found a well-differentiated, low-grade (G1), neuroendocrine tumor. A thoracoabdominal CT scan was performed for staging purposes. The chest CT scan revealed a so-called cannonball-...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Scamporlino A,Mengoli MC,Calabrese O,Della Casa G,Aramini B,Spallanzani A,Morandi U,Stefani A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a safe and minimally invasive tool that can routinely provide high-quality anatomic and hemodynamic information in the severely ill. Despite its potential for frontline acute care clinicians, TEE use has typically been reserved for diagnostic experts in the cardiac-surgical mi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Jaidka A,Hobbs H,Koenig S,Millington SJ,Arntfield RT

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to determine how common sleep-related desaturation with preserved awake resting pulse oximetric saturation (SpO(2)) was in a large cohort of adult cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with variable degrees of pulmonary disease. We then determined whether nocturnal desaturation could re...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Frangolias DD,Wilcox PG

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura (SFTPs) are slow-growing neoplasms. Approximately 800 cases have been reported in the literature to date. The aim of this study was to address our experience with the management of SFTPs and to evaluate the advantage of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) i...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Takahama M,Kushibe K,Kawaguchi T,Kimura M,Taniguchi S

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia (BOOP) is a clinicopathologic syndrome characterized by an indolent course and favorable prognosis. This report describes five patients with a fulminating and life-threatening variant of this syndrome. Four patients presented with respiratory failure requir...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nizami IY,Kissner DG,Visscher DW,Dubaybo BA

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent study of the inflammatory reactions occurring during and after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) has improved our understanding of the involvement of the inflammatory cascade in perioperative injury. However, the exact mechanisms of this complex response remain to be fully determined. METHODS:Literature o...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wan S,LeClerc JL,Vincent JL

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eradication of the bacterial pathogen, resolution of the local and systemic inflammatory signs, and recovery of organ function are the main criteria by which antibiotic treatment is evaluated. In cystic fibrosis (CF) the pathogen is seldom eradicated and systemic markers of inflammation are not always present. The mai...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Levy J

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous rtPA (total dose, 100 mg over 3 h) was compared with placebo in a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial in 5,011 patients with suspected AMI of less than 5 h duration. No ECG or enzymatic confirmation of the diagnosis was required for study entry. At 1 month 9.8% of patients given placebo had died co...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wilcox RG

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic research has revealed a substantial portion of the general population with abnormal spirometry results that are characterized by decreased FEV1 and FVC but a preserved FEV1/FVC ratio. This restrictive spirometry pattern (RSP) is inconsistently defined in the literature and not well addressed by current g...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Godfrey MS,Jankowich MD

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To compare the diagnostic performance of volumetric capnography (VCap), which is the plot of the expired CO(2) partial pressure against the expired volume during a single breath, with the PaCO(2) to end-tidal CO(2) (EtCO(2)) gradient, in the case of suspected pulmonary embolism (PE). DESIGN:Single-cent...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Verschuren F,Liistro G,Coffeng R,Thys F,Roeseler J,Zech F,Reynaert M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The systemic pressor effects of angiotensin II (ANGII) are well described, whereas relatively little is known regarding its effects on the pulmonary circulation in humans. Doppler echocardiographic measurements were performed in eight normal volunteers after a 30-min control infusion (baseline), after sequential 30 mi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lipworth BJ,Dagg KD

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To compare the acute bronchodilatory effect of the long-acting beta2-agonist formoterol against the short-acting beta2-agonist (SABA) terbutaline during exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) in children with asthma. DESIGN:A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study of the imme...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hermansen MN,Nielsen KG,Buchvald F,Jespersen JJ,Bengtsson T,Bisgaard H

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inadequate tissue oxygenation may occur in critically ill patients with sepsis despite an apparently adequate O2 transport (QO2), and this may contribute to the development of an O2 debt and also to multiple organ failure. It has been shown that increasing QO2 by infusing a vasodilator may reveal this O2 debt in septi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pittet JF,Lacroix JS,Gunning K,Laverriere MC,Morel DR,Suter PM

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 21-year follow-up after tricuspid valve replacement (TVR) with a Starr-Edwards caged-ball prosthesis in a ten-year old boy is described. TVR is performed for Ebstein's anomaly, with strict indications in childhood. Despite the current preference for bioprostheses, good performance can be expected from the Starr-Edwa...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Di Lello F,Flemma RJ,Mullen DC,Kleinman LH,Werner PH

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the incidence and clinical factors related to the persistence of infarct-associated pericardial effusion (PE) after primary angioplasty. DESIGN:Consecutive case-series analysis. SETTING:Coronary care unit in a university hospital. PATIENTS:Three hundred ninety-one consecutive patients wit...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sugiura T,Nakamura S,Kudo Y,Okumiya T,Yamasaki F,Iwasaka T

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on pulmonary function, with particular reference to flow-volumes, were obtained in 760 normal healthy Indians in Bombay, who had never smoked and who had no symptom or history of cardiorespiratory disease. Prediction equations were derived for spirometric parameters and for maximal expiratory flows. The maximal e...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Udwadia FE,Sunavala JD,Shetye VM,Jain PK

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the effect of inhaled diuretics, furosemide and amiloride, on cough induced by acid inhalation challenge in asthmatic children, a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study was conducted. On separate days, 12 asthmatic children (10.3 +/- 0.7 [SEM] years) underwent acetic acid (AD) inhalation challe...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mochizuki H,Shimizu T,Morikawa A,Kuroume T

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Average volume-assured pressure support (AVAPS) has been introduced as a new additional mode for a bilevel pressure ventilation (BPV) device (BiPAP; Respironics; Murrysville, PA), but studies on the physiologic and clinical effects have not yet been performed. There is a particular need to better define the ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Storre JH,Seuthe B,Fiechter R,Milioglou S,Dreher M,Sorichter S,Windisch W

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urine output (UO) is a vital sign for critically ill patients, but standards for monitoring and reporting vary widely between ICUs. Careful monitoring of UO could lead to earlier recognition of acute kidney injury (AKI) and better fluid management. We sought to determine if the intensity of UO monitoring is ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Jin K,Murugan R,Sileanu FE,Foldes E,Priyanka P,Clermont G,Kellum JA

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:CT scan-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of lung nodules is a well-established diagnostic technique. In our institution, both FNA and tissue core biopsy (using a 20-gauge needle) under CT scan guidance are routinely performed during the same procedure, and a preliminary diagnosis (an immediate assessmen...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Chandan VS,Zimmerman K,Baker P,Scalzetti E,Khurana KK

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:COPD patients run a risk of developing nocturnal oxygen desaturation. When evaluating patients with nocturnal hypoxemia, an unfamiliar hospital environment and the monitoring equipment may cause sleep disturbances. It was hypothesized that increased sleep disruption will lead to fewer instances of desa...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Brijker F,van den Elshout FJ,Heijdra YF,Folgering HT

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00