Focused sonography of the heart, lungs, and deep veins identifies missed life-threatening conditions in admitted patients with acute respiratory symptoms.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Increasing evidence indicates that routine preoperative diagnostic spirometry (pulmonary function tests [PFTs]) before elective abdominal surgery does not predict individual risk of postoperative pulmonary complications and is overutilized. This economic evaluation estimates potential savings from reduc...

journal_title：Chest

authors： De Nino LA,Lawrence VA,Averyt EC,Hilsenbeck SG,Dhanda R,Page CP

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary disease due to Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC-PD) radiographically resembles that due to tuberculosis; it preferentially affects elderly white men with predisposing pulmonary disorders (PDPD). METHODS:Twenty-nine patients with MAC-PD were identified from a community-based population, and the med...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Reich JM,Johnson RE

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of congestive heart failure remains an issue of great interest. Encouraging data emerged over the last 2 years supporting the use of multisite pacing in patients with severe congestive heart failure and intraventricular conduction delay. We present a case of acute biventricular pacing in a 81-year old m...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Debrunner M,Naegeli B,Bertel O

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) evaluation based on analyses of combined wash-in (WI) and washout (WO) values obtained by helical dynamic CT (HDCT) scanning is useful for malignant SPN characterization, because this method has higher specificity and accuracy than that based on analyses of WI values only. How...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lee KS,Yi CA,Jeong SY,Jeong YJ,Kim S,Chung MJ,Kim HY,Kim YK,Lee KH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exertional dyspnea is a common complaint for patients seen in pulmonary, cardiac, and general medicine clinics, and elucidating the cause is often challenging, particularly when physical examination, echocardiography, radiography, and pulmonary function test results are inconclusive. Invasive cardiopulmonary exercise ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Jain CC,Borlaug BA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen postmenopausal women were examined by Doppler echocardiography before initiation of HRT (T1), then after ten weeks (T2) and one year (T3). This study group was compared with another in which HRT was not used. Flow velocity integral, which correlates with SV, and MA, an indicator of cardiac contractility, were...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pines A,Fisman EZ,Ayalon D,Drory Y,Averbuch M,Levo Y

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Etomidate is commonly used for the facilitation of endotracheal intubation. While etomidate possesses multiple qualities that are beneficial in hemodynamically unstable patients who require a sedative or amnestic, its potential to negatively impact corticosteroid production is well-documented. Given the frequency of r...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Jackson WL Jr

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of aortic ring abscess by cross-sectional echocardiography has not been reported. In this paper, a case of bacterial endocarditis of the aortic valve extending to the aortic ring and the mitral valve is reported. The role of cross-sectional echocardiography in defining the anatomic distortion of the aort...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mardelli TJ,Ogawa S,Hubbard FE,Dreifus LS,Meixell LL

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new bronchoscopic-protected catheter brush (BPCB), designed to obtain uncontaminated bronchial secretions, was studied in vitro and in vivo. The device was composed of a standard biopsy brush, protected by a single catheter and occluded with an agar plug. Ejection of the plug was obtained neither by advancing the br...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Marquette CH,Ramon P,Courcol R,Wallaert B,Tonnel AB,Voisin C

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When evaluating peripheral pulmonary lesions, a 3.0-mm ultrathin bronchoscope (UTB) with a 1.7-mm working channel is advantageous regarding good access to the peripheral airway, whereas a 4.0-mm thin bronchoscope provides a larger 2.0-mm working channel, which allows the use of various instruments including ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Oki M,Saka H,Asano F,Kitagawa C,Kogure Y,Tsuzuku A,Ando M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Two recent studies in resectable non-small cell lung cancer by the Lung Cancer Study Group (LCSG) suggested an advantage to adjuvant therapy with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin (Adriamycin), and cisplatin (CAP). Neither study had a no-treatment control arm. The purpose of this study was to compare the CAP regi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Feld R,Rubinstein L,Thomas PA

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To evaluate, through clinical and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) follow-up, the natural history of persistent pericardial effusion (PE) after postoperative day 15 in patients who were given and were not given anticoagulant therapy. DESIGN AND PATIENTS:We retrospectively studied a cohort of 1,277...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Meurin P,Weber H,Renaud N,Larrazet F,Tabet JY,Demolis P,Ben Driss A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 52-year-old man, chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (CEP), suggested by clinical history and marked eosinophilia in the peripheral blood and in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, has been diagnosed on open lung biopsy. Nevertheless, chest roentgenograms never showed any infiltration during the course of the disease. E...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Dejaegher P,Derveaux L,Dubois P,Demedts M

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this pilot study, murine monoclonal anti-TNF antibody (2 mg/kg) was administered to ten patients within 24 h of septic shock which persisted after initial resuscitation with intravenous fluids and adrenergic agents. This treatment resulted in a reduction in heart rate (from 122 +/- 10 to 113 +/- 10 beats per minute...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Vincent JL,Bakker J,Marécaux G,Schandene L,Kahn RJ,Dupont E

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the influence of pregnancy as a relapse factor in pulmonary tuberculosis in 215 patients who recieved adequate chemotherapy. A comparison was made between the evolution of patients who had pregnancies and those who did not. On ending the period of observation (details are lacking with respect to o...

journal_title：Chest

authors： de March A P

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein is a report of an adult case of primary HIV infection with cytomegalovirus coinfection causing cough, fever, and lymphocytic alveolitis. Primary HIV infection has not been previously reported as a cause of lymphocytic alveolitis. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Jouveshomme S,Couderc LJ,Ferchal F,Vignon D,Autran B,Balloul E,Caubarrere I

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the short-term physiologic effects of mask pressure support ventilation (PSV) and proportional assist ventilation (PAV) in patients in clinically stable condition with chronic ventilatory failure (CVF). DESIGN:Randomized, controlled physiologic study. SETTING:Lung function units of two pulmonary ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Porta R,Appendini L,Vitacca M,Bianchi L,Donner CF,Poggi R,Ambrosino N

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To determine the efficacy of albuterol by metered-dose inhaler (MDI) and spacer compared to a nebulizer. DESIGN:A prospective, open-label study. SETTING:Large urban emergency department (ED). PATIENTS:All consecutive adult asthma patients over a 2.5-year period. INTERVENTIONS:ED personnel used a st...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Newman KB,Milne S,Hamilton C,Hall K

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis is the most common fatal inherited disease of Caucasians. At present, cystic fibrosis accounts for most cases of chronic progressive pulmonary disease and for many other clinical features in the first three decades of life. Thus, it is a challenge to both pediatricians and internists, particularly ches...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Davis PB,di Sant'Agnese PA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The successful use of streptokinase therapy in a child with chronic thrombosis of a prosthetic valve (Carbomedics) in the tricuspid position is presented. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mehan VK,Dalvi BV,Kale PA

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the systemic bioavailability (assessed by cortisol suppression) of high-dose budesonide when given by four inhaler devices and orally. Also studied are the relative systemic potencies of three inhaled steroids (budesonide, fluticasone propionate, and beclomethasone dipropionate) when given by mete...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wales D,Makker H,Kane J,McDowell P,O'Driscoll BR

更新日期：1999-05-01 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：:A five-year clinical follow-up and the results of myocardial biopsies are described in a patient with primary restrictive cardiomyopathy. Histologic examination of a right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy taken early in the course of the illness was not contributory. Histologic examination of a left ventricular endom...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Arbustini E,Buonanno C,Trevi G,Pennelli N,Ferrans VJ,Thiene G

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complications following open chest massage in patients with porcine xenografts in the mitral location have not been previously described. The authors report a case of cardiac resuscitation following mitral valve replacement with a stented porcine valve. The patient died following brief closed chest, and then, prolonge...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wild LM,Lajos TZ,Lee AB Jr,Wright J

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have suggested a relationship between asthma and obesity. Despite these reports, the effect of being underweight or overweight as a risk factor for airway obstructive diseases (AODs) is not clear. OBJECTIVES:To determine whether a relation of body mass index (BMI) to asthma, chronic bronchiti...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Guerra S,Sherrill DL,Bobadilla A,Martinez FD,Barbee RA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 4 cases of Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) that occurred in patients being treated with corticosteroids for a diagnosis of asthma. One patient had asthma, eosinophilia, and eosinophilic lymphadenopathy that regressed with higher doses of corticosteroids. The second patient had both eosinophilic tissue infiltrat...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Churg A,Brallas M,Cronin SR,Churg J

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Lung transplantation is now available for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and end-stage lung disease. While pulmonary graft function is often considered the major priority following transplantation, the nonpulmonary complications of this systemic disease also continue. We examined the GI complication...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gilljam M,Chaparro C,Tullis E,Chan C,Keshavjee S,Hutcheon M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thromboendarterectomy is the treatment of choice for chronic large vessel thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. To identify the mechanisms responsible for the improvement in gas exchange following thromboendarterectomy, we studied nine patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension before and eight to 18...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kapitan KS,Clausen JL,Moser KM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The study documented the emergence of new forms of resistant bacilli (totally drug-resistant [TDR] or super extensively drug-resistant [XDR] tuberculosis [TB] strains) among patients with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). METHODS:Susceptibility testing against first- and second-line drugs was performed on is...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Velayati AA,Masjedi MR,Farnia P,Tabarsi P,Ghanavi J,ZiaZarifi AH,Hoffner SE

更新日期：2009-08-01 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