Spontaneous pneumothorax in cystic adenomatoid malformation. Unusual clinical and histologic features.

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the following: (1) if standard clinical evaluation is sufficient to provide an accurate estimate of hemodynamic status of unstable ICU patients; (2) the impact of pulmonary artery catheterization (PAC) on diagnosis and treatment plan; and (3) whether therapy provided after ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Steingrub JS,Celoria G,Vickers-Lahti M,Teres D,Bria W

更新日期：1991-06-01 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:Asthma morbidity and mortality are higher in the United States for African-American (AA) children when compared to European-American (EA) children. STUDY OBJECTIVES:To explore racial differences in physiologic factors associated with pediatric asthma severity. DESIGN:Cross-sectional. METHODS:We analyzed d...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Joseph CL,Ownby DR,Peterson EL,Johnson CC

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An obesity paradox, wherein patients who are obese have lower mortality, has been described in cardiopulmonary diseases, including pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Our objective was to determine whether obesity and BMI are associated with mortality in patients with PAH. METHODS:We assessed incident pa...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Weatherald J,Huertas A,Boucly A,Guignabert C,Taniguchi Y,Adir Y,Jevnikar M,Savale L,Jaïs X,Peng M,Simonneau G,Montani D,Humbert M,Sitbon O

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if a regimen of intravenous and oral corticosteroids reduces the relapse rate after treatment of decompensated COPD in the ED, 30 patients were studied. Forty-five visits in which intravenous and oral corticosteroids were given (T visits) were compared with an equal number of matched visits in which they ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Murata GH,Gorby MS,Chick TW,Halperin AK

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the cardiac sympathetic nerve terminal the alpha 2-adrenoceptor is presynaptic and appears to be located at an extrasynaptic site. This is suggested by (1) absence of evidence of autoinhibitory feedback at physiologic stimulus levels up to about 50 percent of the maximum chronotropic response in the isolated guinea...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Korner PI,Angus JA,Lew MJ,Heinzow BG

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-three patients who were to undergo diagnostic fiberoptic bronchoscopy were studied. Pulmonary function tests were performed before the procedure, after topical lidocaine anesthesia, and immediately and four hours after bronchoscopy. Nine patients received aerosolized isoproterenol (Isuprel) before the topical a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Belen J,Neuhaus A,Markowitz D,Rotman HH

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To investigate the efficacy and safety of amiodarone administered as the drug of first choice in the conversion of atrial fibrillation, regardless of its duration. DESIGN:: Prospective, randomized, controlled clinical study. SETTING:: Tertiary cardiac referral center. PATIENTS:Two-hundred eight cons...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Vardas PE,Kochiadakis GE,Igoumenidis NE,Tsatsakis AM,Simantirakis EN,Chlouverakis GI

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of broxaterol, a new beta 2-agonist, on respiratory muscle endurance and strength was studied in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized crossover clinical trial in 16 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with irreversible airway obstruction (FEV1 = 57.1 percent of predicted). O...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nava S,Crotti P,Gurrieri G,Fracchia C,Rampulla C

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As previous studies have suggested that inhaled furosemide may have a protective effect against certain types of provocative challenges in asthmatic subjects, we investigated the role of furosemide in treating acute asthma exacerbations. Twenty-four patients (n = 24) with acute asthma were entered into the study on pr...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Karpel JP,Dworkin F,Hager D,Feliciano S,Shapiro D,Posner L,Luks D

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effect of dynamic exercise on mitral regurgitation (MR) as assessed by color flow Doppler imaging and tested the hypothesis that MR increases in patients with left ventricular (LV) function worsening during exercise. We studied 513 patients (390 men, 123 women:mean age [+/-1 SD] 58+/-11 yea...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Peteiro J,Freire E,Montserrat L,Castro-Beiras A

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient complained of angina pectoris nine months after surgical repair of an aortic right atrial fistula and mitral valve replacement. Subsequently, he was shown to have a new obstruction of the ostium of the left main coronary artery. This case illustrates the need to consider this syndrome in the differential dia...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Coplan NL,Estioko MR,Ambrose JA

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the findings in a patient with Klippel-Feil syndrome and associated agenesis of right upper and middle lobes, hypoplasia of the right lower lobe of the lung, and Lown-Ganong-Levine syndrome. To our knowledge, such an association has not been previously described. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bhagat R,Pant K,Singh VK,Pant C,Gupta A,Jaggi OP

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients under two years of age are described with unusual fistulas involving the brachiocephalic arteries and the innominate vein or the superior vena cava. Two patients were asymptomatic, and one newborn was cyanotic and in congestive failure. This unusual presentation has only rarely been reported in thoracic...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gutierrez FR,Monaco MP,Hartmann AF Jr,McKnight RC

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although patients with heart disease have successfully completed marathon runs, the immediate cardiac effects of similar and greater distance endurance exercise competition are unknown. Two such cases are presented, demonstrating that vigorous exercise and extreme levels of fitness are not precluded in the cardiac pat...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Douglas PS,Sigler A,O'Toole ML,Hiller WD

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COPD is a significant public health challenge, notably set to become the third leading cause of death and fifth leading cause of chronic disability worldwide by the next decade. Skeletal muscle impairment is now recognized as a disabling, extrapulmonary consequence of COPD that is associated with reduced quality of li...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Taivassalo T,Hussain SN

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) has been linked to resistant hypertension, but the magnitude of this association and its independence of confounding have not been established. METHODS:Case patients were 63 patients with resistant hypertension (BP >or= 140/90 mm Hg using at least three BP-lowering dr...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gonçalves SC,Martinez D,Gus M,de Abreu-Silva EO,Bertoluci C,Dutra I,Branchi T,Moreira LB,Fuchs SC,de Oliveira AC,Fuchs FD

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the prevalence of carboxyhemoglobin levels in banked blood exceeding Air Quality Standards (level of carboxyhemoglobin greater than 1.5 percent), we analyzed banked blood for the level of carboxyhemoglobin from 101 randomly selected samples. Of 101 units of banked blood, 49 (49 percent) had carboxyhemoglo...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Aronow WS,O'Donohue WJ Jr,Freygang J,Sketch MH

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopic lung volume-reduction therapy for emphysema has been associated with therapeutic responses smaller in magnitude and less durable than surgical volume reduction (LVRS). Bronchoscopic emphysematous lung sealant (ELS) therapy has been shown to produce improvements in pulmonary function similar to surgery at 1 ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kramer MR,Refaely Y,Maimon N,Rosengarten D,Fruchter O

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To evaluate gas exchange, pulmonary function, and lung histology during gas ventilation of the perfluorocarbon-filled lung compared with gas ventilation of the gas-filled lung in severe respiratory failure. STUDY DESIGN:Application of gas (GV) or partial liquid (PLV) ventilation in lung-injured sheep. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hirschl RB,Tooley R,Parent AC,Johnson K,Bartlett RH

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the incidence of catamenial pneumothorax (CP) among women who have been referred for the surgical treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) and to study its pathogenic mechanisms. DESIGN:A prospective study of women of reproductive age who have been referred to our center for the surgical treat...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Alifano M,Roth T,Broët SC,Schussler O,Magdeleinat P,Regnard JF

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Pneumonia during chemotherapy-induced leukocytopenia is a major cause of overall treatment failure in patients with hematologic malignancies. To improve outcome in these high-risk patients, early diagnosis of pulmonary infiltrates and institution of adequate antimicrobial treatment are mandatory. To id...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kiehl MG,Ostermann H,Thomas M,Birkfellner T,Kienast J

更新日期：1997-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bronchoscopy is a useful tool for the diagnosis of lesions near central airways; however, the diagnostic accuracy of these procedures for peripheral pulmonary lesions (PPLs) is a matter of ongoing debate. In this setting, electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) is a technique used to navigate and obtai...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Folch EE,Labarca G,Ospina-Delgado D,Kheir F,Majid A,Khandhar SJ,Mehta HJ,Jantz MA,Fernandez-Bussy S

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:Head-up tilt test was done in a 27-year-old man with recurrent syncope of unexplained cause. Severe sinus bradycardia and hypotension accompanied by light-headedness, cold sweating, and nausea occurred at 80 degrees head-up position during 4 micrograms/min isoproterenol infusion. Oral propranolol, 160 mg/d, in four di...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wang CC,Yeh SJ,Wen MS,Lin FC,Wu D

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors believe this to be the first case report of atrial fibrillation following pulse methylprednisolone therapy in an adult. The literature regarding the complications of pulse methylprednisolone therapy is reviewed, with particular emphasis on the incidence and pathogenesis of arrhythmias. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： McLuckie AE,Savage RW

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:s: Consensus guidelines for the empirical treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) have been published. We investigated the following factors: (1) the degree of adherence to American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR) guidelines; and (2) the...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Menéndez R,Ferrando D,Vallés JM,Vallterra J

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitation of apneas and hypopneas is routinely included in studies of epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). The definition of apnea appears clear-cut in the sleep literature. In contrast, the literature contains remarkable variety in both recording techniques and definitions of...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Moser NJ,Phillips BA,Berry DT,Harbison L

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 33-year-old man with a two-year history of asthma and sinusitis presented with wheezing, pleuritis, bilateral pleural effusions, and patchy basilar infiltrates on chest roentgenogram. Laboratory studies revealed peripheral blood eosinophilia, and pulmonary function studies showed an obstructive pattern which was bro...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Erzurum SC,Underwood GA,Hamilos DL,Waldron JA

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Men who snore heavily have an increased incidence of hypertension, angina, stroke, and neuropsychologic dysfunction, which may be due to nocturnal oxygen desaturation. Nocturnal oxygen therapy might be beneficial to such individuals by improving oxygenation and relieving tissue hypoxia. Twenty-eight asymptomatic heavy...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Block AJ,Hellard DW,Cicale MJ

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00