Figure-eight kinking of the aorta (pseudocoarctation) coexistent with coarctation.

abstract：:Beta-2-integrins belong to a family of leukocyte surface glycoproteins that are essential for immune functions of bronchoalveolar cells. The expression of three alpha chains designed as CD11a, CD11b, CD11c, a common beta chain CD18, and of a ligand for several integrins CD54 (ICAM-1) was studied on alveolar macrophage...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Striz I,Wang YM,Kalaycioglu O,Costabel U

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adjunctive strategies are an important part of the management of ARDS. However, their application in clinical practice remains inconsistent. RESEARCH QUESTION:We wished to determine the frequency and patterns of use of adjunctive strategies in patients with moderate to severe ARDS (Pao2/Fio2 [P/F ratio] < 1...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Duggal A,Rezoagli E,Pham T,McNicholas BA,Fan E,Bellani G,Rubenfeld G,Pesenti AM,Laffey JG,LUNG SAFE Investigators and the ESICM Trials Group.

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Cellular growth in the vascular wall, including endothelial and smooth-muscle cell proliferation, is recognized as a component of the obstructive vasculopathy observed in the small vessels of the lungs in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). We hypothesized that angiogenic growth factors may have a r...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Benisty JI,McLaughlin VV,Landzberg MJ,Rich JD,Newburger JW,Rich S,Folkman J

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), a major cause of ICU infection, results in high morbidity, mortality, and health-care costs. Multiple risk factors for VAP involve complex host factors and ubiquitous pathogens that require several different types of prevention strategies. Prevention efforts should focus on reduc...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Craven DE

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:Forty-four patients with newly discovered biopsy-proven pulmonary sarcoidosis in roentgenographic stage II (adenopathy and interstitial abnormalities) who also had abnormal pulmonary function (TLC and/or DCO less than 80 percent predicted) were assigned in alternate sequence to either a daily or alternate day predniso...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Spratling L,Tenholder MF,Underwood GH,Feaster BL,Requa RK

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A serum galactomannan (GM) assay has been approved for diagnosing invasive aspergillosis (IA). However, the role of the BAL-GM assay has not been well established. Therefore, we conducted a metaanalysis to determine the overall accuracy of BAL-GM in the diagnosis of IA. METHODS:After a systematic review of ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Guo YL,Chen YQ,Wang K,Qin SM,Wu C,Kong JL

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate whether increased airway reactivity affected the course of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), we categorized 40 CF patients as to methacholine sensitivity and then evaluated their disease activity and natural history. Twenty methacholine reactors had more severe lung disease (lower S-K clinical scores and...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Eggleston PA,Rosenstein BJ,Stackhouse CM,Alexander MF

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) is a pulmonary vasculopathy resulting in exercise intolerance, usually due to dyspnea. We hypothesized that ventilation is increased during exercise in PPH relative to normal because the ventilated lung is underperfused, cardiac output increase is restricted, and arterial...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Yasunobu Y,Oudiz RJ,Sun XG,Hansen JE,Wasserman K

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the long-term clinical benefits of palliative Nd:YAG laser photoresection, we studied 69 patients with obstructing exophytic tracheobronchial lesions treated with this modality between Oct 25, 1984 and May 8, 1989. In 55 patients, there was greater than 75 percent restoration of the luminal caliber ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ross DJ,Mohsenifar Z,Koerner SK

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To identify the prognostic factors for pneumothorax in patients in the ICU. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. SETTING:ICU at a university-based teaching hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Sixty patients developed pneumothoraces in the ICU during a period of 36 months. Medical records relating to patient...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Chen KY,Jerng JS,Liao WY,Ding LW,Kuo LC,Wang JY,Yang PC

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the first reported case (to our knowledge) of pulmonary granulomatosis caused by aspirated green tea. In this case, we found granulomatous alveolitis with lymph follicles, T lymphocytosis with predominantly CD8+ cells in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluids, positive serum precipitin and proliferative respons...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sakamoto O,Saita N,Yamasaki H,Tamanoi M,Ando M

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:Tight glycemic control is recommended for patients in the ICU, as hyperglycemia is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. DESIGN:Observational cohort of patients admitted to a 12-bed, inner-city, medical ICU (MICU). SUBJECTS:A total of 1,185 of 1,506 patients from July 1, 1999, to December 31, ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Freire AX,Bridges L,Umpierrez GE,Kuhl D,Kitabchi AE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the trachea is rare. Its occurence in a 14-year-old boy is reported here. This case illustrates the typical course of tracheal tumors with clinical manifestations of cough, wheezing, and hemoptysis, the intially reported normal chest roentgenogram, and the common failure to diagnose trachea...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bharani SN,Arbeit JM,Hyde JS,Dainauskas JR,Wilson RR

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To report observations on preserved regular atrial electrical and mechanical systole during ventricular fibrillation (VF) and to quantitate blood flow generated by atrial contractions in this setting. METHODS:In 10 rats, right atrial pressure pulses were continuously recorded before and for an interval of 8...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pernat A,Weil MH,Sun S,Tang W,Yamaguchi H,Bisera J

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients undergoing pneumonectomy were evaluated with the lateral position test (LPT) in addition to routine pulmonary function tests (PFTs). On the basis of the percentage of ventilation estimated to be contributed by each lung on LPT, predictions were made for expected values for each patient's post-pneumonectom...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Walkup RH,Vossel LF,Griffin JP,Proctor RJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:We investigated whether artificial neural networks (ANNs) could diagnose pathology of lymph nodes by feeding B-mode images from convex-type echobronchoscopy to ANNs. METHODS:Subjects comprised 91 patients who had undergone endobronchial ultrasonography transbronchial needle aspiration at our hospital betwee...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tagaya R,Kurimoto N,Osada H,Kobayashi A

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:The effects of erythromycin on the NADPH oxidase activity in the neutrophils of normal subjects and patients with bronchiolitis were investigated. In the patients receiving erythromycin, NADPH oxidase activity was significantly lower in a whole-cell system than that before therapy. Erythromycin was also found to inhib...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Umeki S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tendency toward "either/or" thinking (either cure or comfort) in traditional biomedical care paradigms does little to optimize care in advancing chronic illness. Calls for improved palliation in chronic lung disease mandate a review of related care gaps and current clinical practices. Although specialist palliativ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Rocker GM,Simpson AC,Horton R

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether continuous Fick cardiac output measurement is applicable to exercise testing, cardiac output data obtained by the continuous Fick method (Qcf) during exercise were compared with data obtained by the thermodilution method (Qth). Seventeen patients with old myocardial infarction underwent a 1-min or...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nakanishi N,Yoshioka T,Okano Y,Nishimura T

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to identify correlates of fibrosis in acute respiratory failure, autopsies were performed on 16 patients who died after an episode of more than two weeks' duration, and the left lower lung lobe was obtained for biochemical measurements. The average amount of lobar collagen in one group of patients was nearly ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Collins JF,Smith JD,Coalson JJ,Johanson WG Jr

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platypnea-orthodeoxia is an uncommon syndrome that may occur due to the postpneumonectomy state, cirrhosis of the liver, recurrent pulmonary embolism, and intracardiac shunting. We describe a patient who was found to have a positional change in desaturation after being admitted for dehydration. Workup revealed an atri...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Acharya SS,Kartan R

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our laboratory uses pH paper rather than a blood gas analyzer to measure pleural fluid pH to decrease cost and avoid analyzer malfunction due to viscous fluids. METHODS:To compare these two methods of determining pleural fluid pH, 42 patients undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic thoracentesis had two 1-mL a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lesho EP,Roth BJ

更新日期：1997-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cough provides high expiratory airflows to aerosolize and remove material that cannot be adequately removed by ciliary action. Cough is particularly important for clearing foreign particles from the airway in those with dysphagia who may be at risk for penetration/aspiration (P/A). Expiratory muscle strength...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pitts T,Bolser D,Rosenbek J,Troche M,Okun MS,Sapienza C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess late outcome following percutaneous tracheostomy using the Portex kit (Hythe, Kent, UK). DESIGN:Prospective observational cohort study. SETTING:Teaching hospital. PATIENTS:Forty-nine consecutive patients who underwent percutaneous tracheostomy in the ICU using the Portex kit and who survived 6 mo...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Leonard RC,Lewis RH,Singh B,van Heerden PV

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:International guidelines advocate a standard approach to asthma management for all, despite its heterogeneity. "Personalized" treatment of inflammatory asthma phenotypes confers superior benefits. We wished to evaluate dose response to inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) in patients with asthma with an elevated f...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Anderson WJ,Short PM,Williamson PA,Lipworth BJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spontaneous pneumothorax (SPTX) is an uncommon phenomenon in the general population and is most commonly associated with prior bulbous emphysema, cystic parenchymal lung disease, and tuberculous lung disease. A rare cause of SPTX is malignant disease, either in the form of primary lung or pleural cancers, or...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hoag JB,Sherman M,Fasihuddin Q,Lund ME

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00