Occupational exposure to aerosolized pentamidine.

abstract：:In patients at risk for sepsis after cardiac surgery, the efficacy of intravenous immunoglobulin (Ig) treatment was compared with a historical control population, equivalent in patient characteristics and disease severity. Using APACHE II scores, especially in the high-risk group (IgG), we could discriminate between l...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pilz G,Kreuzer E,Kääb S,Appel R,Werdan K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The tuberculin skin test is the best diagnostic method to detect tuberculous infection. How accurate is interpretation of the test? DESIGN:Observational study. SETTING:Both general hospital and university hospital. PARTICIPANTS:One hundred seven health-care professionals, including 52 practicing pedi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kendig EL Jr,Kirkpatrick BV,Carter WH,Hill FA,Caldwell K,Entwistle M

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) associated with collagen vascular disease (CVD) have been reported to have a better prognosis than those with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with a UIP pattern (IPF/UIP) seen on histology. The aim of this study was to evaluate the pathologic and radiologic diff...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Song JW,Do KH,Kim MY,Jang SJ,Colby TV,Kim DS

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In COPD, a decreased inspiratory capacity to total lung capacity ratio (IC/TLC) is associated with dynamic hyperinflation and poor exercise capacity. The association with upper-extremity force measured by handgrip strength (HGS) and 6-min walk distance (6MWD) has not been previously described. We hypothesize...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Felipe C,Bartolome C,Miguel D,Victor PP

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:To evaluate whether the response of left ventricular pump function during low-level exercise in the early postinfarction period can anticipate its change during the first year after acute myocardial infarction (MI), global and regional ejection fractions (EF) were investigated using radionuclide angiography in 52 cons...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Iwasaka T,Sugiura T,Nakamura S,Okubo N,Inada M

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute or short-term complications following the use of flow-directed balloon-tipped catheters are well recognized. Long-term sequelae are rarely reported. We report herein an early complication of pulmonary arterial rupture with infarction followed by the delayed development of a pulmonary arterial aneurysm. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Smart FW,Husserl FE

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Asthma therapy is typically prescribed and titrated based on patient or parent self-report of symptoms. No longitudinal studies have assessed the relationship between symptoms and severe asthma exacerbations in children. The goal of our study was (1) to assess the association of asthma symptoms with severe a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wu AC,Tantisira K,Li L,Schuemann B,Weiss ST,Fuhlbrigge AL,Childhood Asthma Management Program Research Group.

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection of patients with lung cancer who are most likely to benefit from chemotherapeutic treatment would be a substantial step forward. Therefore, a prospective study in predictive chemosensitivity testing in vitro using the fast green assay (FGA) as developed by Weisenthal et al was carried out. Sixty-six pretreat...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Smit EF,de Vries EG,Meijer C,Mulder NH,Postmus PE

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 84 consecutive patients with resting T-wave inversion, radionuclide angiography revealed significant new wall motion abnormalities in 13 (28 percent) of the 47 patients with persistent T-wave inversion and in 23 (62 percent) of the 37 patients with T-wave pseudonormalization during exercise (p less than 0.01). The ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lavie CJ,Oh JK,Mankin HT,Clements IP,Giuliani ER,Gibbons RJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Studies documenting the increased incidence of exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB) in figure skaters have employed a method that incorporates on-ice exercise with rink-side spirometry. The literature suggests that bronchial provocation challenge testing is better than exercise testing for identifying EIB. To...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mannix ET,Manfredi F,Farber MO

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tobacco smoking increases the risk of sudden cardiac death, possibly by altering the substrate for propagation or sustainment of ventricular tachyarrhythmias. To test this hypothesis, 15 long-term smokers without known coronary artery disease abstained from tobacco smoking for 12 h, after which they underwent SAECG be...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sperry RE,Vacek JL,Smith GS

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is reported who had Histoplasma capsulatum endocarditis, a rare form of disseminated histoplasmosis. He also had disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and defects in cell-mediated immune responses to Histoplasma antigens. Prompt etiologic diagnosis was made by stain of tissue from a mouth ulcer and confirm...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bradsher RW,Wickre CG,Savage AM,Harston WE,Alford RH

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with systemic artery-to-pulmonary artery fistulae is described. Historically, all therapy of this type of lesion has been surgical. We describe a new mode of treatment, therapeutic embolization, which obviates surgical intervention and its attendant risks. Embolization is an alternative to surgery that shoul...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wolf DC,Wurtzbacher JJ,Horton J

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied retrospectively 69 cases of chagasic megaesophagus (group 1) and 207 cases of chronic chagasic myocardiopathy (CCM) without megaesophagus (group 2) by autopsy in the Pathology Department of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, from 1953 to 1975. It was shown that pulmonary tuberculosis was significantly...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Camara EJ,Lima JA,Oliveira GB,Machado AS

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elevated cardiac troponin levels have been shown to be associated with adverse outcomes in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE). However, few data address the management implications of undetectable cardiac troponin I (cTnI) using a highly sensitive assay. We hypothesized that undetectable cTnI predic...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hakemi EU,Alyousef T,Dang G,Hakmei J,Doukky R

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether sectional development in pulmonary and critical care medicine influences medical house officers' (HO) interests and knowledge about respiratory medicine, we reviewed HO performance on the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certifying examination during 4 years before and 5 years after reor...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Haponik EF,Bowton DL,Chin R Jr,Adair NE,Lykens MG,Alford PT,Bass DA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the response characteristics of a dual transcutaneous (tc) PO2/PCO2 monitoring system in healthy subjects who breathed various gas mixtures, and we compared steady-state tc readings to simultaneous arterial blood gas analysis in 20 stable respiratory outpatients. The electrodes were simple to apply, required...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kesten S,Chapman KR,Rebuck AS

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients with COPD are at risk for cardiovascular events. This is attributed to increased systemic inflammation. The course of COPD is punctuated by exacerbations, which further increase systemic inflammation, but the risk of vascular events in the postexacerbation period has never been defined. METHODS:We a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Donaldson GC,Hurst JR,Smith CJ,Hubbard RB,Wedzicha JA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) tissue-typing studies on patients with genetically transmitted hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have demonstrated an HLA linkage in a Caucasian and black patient group and an HLA-DR locus association in a Japanese population sample. To confirm whether a specific HLA antigen(s) might serve as a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gardin JM,Gottdiener JS,Radvany R,Maron BJ,Lesch M

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine whether standard clinical and transthoracic echocardiographic criteria considered to be suggestive of the presence of endocarditis-associated paravalvular abscess are predictive of which patients would benefit from reliable but invasive transesophageal echocardiographic investigations for a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Blumberg EA,Karalis DA,Chandrasekaran K,Wahl JM,Vilaro J,Covalesky VA,Mintz GS

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have shown "beat-to-beat" variation in systemic BP with high-frequency jet ventilation (HFJV). However, it is not clear if such changes are paralleled by changes in cardiac output. OBJECTIVE:To characterize the effect of HFJV near or equal to the heart rate (HR) on beat-to-beat cardiac outp...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Angus DC,Lidsky NM,Dotterweich LM,Pinsky MR

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary manifestations of pyoderma gangrenosum are relatively rare. We report the case of a 45-year-old patient with multiple pulmonary nodules with central necrosis as assessed by CT scan. The patient had a 4-year history of pyoderma gangrenosum with only minor skin manifestations. A CT-guided, fine-needle biopsy o...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Krüger S,Piroth W,Amo Takyi B,Breuer C,Schwarz ER

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To determine whether the nuclear accumulation of p53 in patients with early bronchial neoplasia represents an altered susceptibility for the development of lung cancer. PATIENTS AND MEASUREMENTS:We evaluated the percentage of cells accumulating nuclear p53 immunohistochemically in squamous cell carcin...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Piyathilake CJ,Frost AR,Manne U,Weiss H,Heimburger DC,Grizzle WE

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A man with usual interstitial pneumonia (age of onset 58 years) was previously found to have an Ile73Thr (I73T) surfactant protein C (SFTPC) mutation. Genomic DNA from the individual and two daughters (aged 39 and 43 years) was sequenced for the I73T mutation and variations in ATP-binding cassette A3 (ABCA3). All thre...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Crossno PF,Polosukhin VV,Blackwell TS,Johnson JE,Markin C,Moore PE,Worrell JA,Stahlman MT,Phillips JA 3rd,Loyd JE,Cogan JD,Lawson WE

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte function associated antigen-1 (LFA-1) and its ligand intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) are cell adhesion molecules that play an important role in the capacity of monoculear phagocytes (MPs) to present antigens to T lymphocytes. Since in pulmonary sarcoidosis (PS) this capacity is increased at sites ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Melis M,Gjomarkaj M,Pace E,Malizia G,Spatafora M

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little information is available about the prevalence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) after discharge from cardiac surgery units and its impact on rehabilitation programs. OBJECTIVES:To estimate the rate of DVT, in relation to different thromboprophylaxis strategies, in patients with a recent coronary artery b...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ambrosetti M,Salerno M,Zambelli M,Mastropasqua F,Tramarin R,Pedretti RF

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guidelines are critical for facilitating cost-effective COPD care. Development and implementation in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) is challenging. To guide future strategy, an overview of current global COPD guidelines is required. RESEARCH QUESTION:We systematically reviewed national COPD guideli...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tabyshova A,Hurst JR,Soriano JB,Checkley W,Wan-Chun Huang E,Trofor AC,Flores-Flores O,Alupo P,Gianella G,Ferdous T,Meharg D,Alison J,Correia de Sousa J,Postma MJ,Chavannes NH,van Boven JFM

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