Increased CSF opioid activity in sleep apnea syndrome. Regression after successful treatment.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To validate a previously developed multisystem organ failure (MSOF) score with and without the addition of the lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) level as a predictor of survival to hospital discharge in patients with AIDS-related Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) and acute respiratory failure (ARF). DESI...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Forrest DM,Djurdjev O,Zala C,Singer J,Lawson L,Russell JA,Montaner JS

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:With the development of percutaneous inferior vena cava (IVC) filters, IVC interruption has become a widely used procedure in patients with or at risk for venous thromboembolism. In an attempt at clarifying the indications for filter placement, a systematic literature review was undertaken. DESIGN:Bibl...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Girard P,Stern JB,Parent F

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:99mTechnetium macroaggregated albumin has successfully been used to define severe postoperative pulmonary vasoconstriction in a four-month-old boy with D-transposition of the great vessels who had undergone a Blalock-Hanlon surgical atrial septectomy. Radionuclide imaging documented clinically suspected pulmonary vaso...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Moodie DS,Levy JM,Kahn DR,Lieberman LM,Pastakia B

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare form of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), associated with swallowing solid food, is described. Repeated triggering of the arrhythmia during esophagoscopy was produced by mechanical stimulation of the anterior esophageal wall, 30 cm from the incisors. Treatment with verapamil abolished this tachycar...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Abinader EG,Cooper M

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sleep apnea has major neurocognitive and cardiovascular and metabolic risks. Treatment of sleep apnea is suboptimal because of variable adherence to existing therapies. METHODS:This trial compared positive airway pressure adherence among patients who were provided active patient engagement (APE) technology ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Malhotra A,Crocker ME,Willes L,Kelly C,Lynch S,Benjafield AV

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Septic pulmonary embolism (SPE) is an uncommon disorder with an insidious onset and is difficult to diagnose. STUDY OBJECTIVES:To characterize the presenting features and clinical course of patients with SPE. DESIGN:Retrospective study. SETTING:Tertiary care, referral medical center. PATIENTS:Fourteen su...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Cook RJ,Ashton RW,Aughenbaugh GL,Ryu JH

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diabetes mellitus is recognized as a stroke risk factor in atrial fibrillation (AF). Patients with diabetes with retinopathy have an increased risk for systemic cardiovascular complications, and severe diabetic retinopathy predisposes to ocular bleeding. We hypothesized that patients with diabetes, retinopat...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lip GYH,Clementy N,Pierre B,Boyer M,Fauchier L

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:D6 is an atypical chemokine receptor involved in chemokine degradation and resolution of acute inflammatory responses in mice. Emerging evidence suggests that D6 might behave differently in human chronic inflammatory conditions. We, therefore, investigated the involvement of D6 in the immune responses in COP...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bazzan E,Saetta M,Turato G,Borroni EM,Cancellieri C,Baraldo S,Savino B,Calabrese F,Ballarin A,Balestro E,Mantovani A,Cosio MG,Bonecchi R,Locati M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) often hypoventilate during sleep with marked falls in oxygen saturation (SaO2%). This occurs most commonly during REM sleep, when there is a reduction in rib cage excursion and a fall in end-expiratory lung volume (EELV). The aim of this study was to examine the effect of nocturnal n...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Regnis JA,Piper AJ,Henke KG,Parker S,Bye PT,Sullivan CE

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although NCPAP is the most efficient nonsurgical treatment for patients with OSA, many patients do not accept sleeping with a nose mask. To determine the factors influencing acceptance, treatment with NCPAP was offered to 95 patients with an AHI greater than 15. After the first night on NCPAP, 47 of 65 patients decide...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Rauscher H,Popp W,Wanke T,Zwick H

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of antibiotics into cardiac valvular tissues is incompletely understood. By integrative computer modeling, we have used previously obtained pharmacokinetic data in experimental endocarditis to characterize aminoglycoside distribution within various geographic sectors of aortic vegetations of rabbits a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bayer AS,Crowell D,Nast CC,Norman DC,Borrelli RL

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:STUDY SETTINGS AND INTERVENTIONS: Sixty individuals complaining of dyspnea on exertion, but with normal spirometry and lung volumes and normal chest roentgenograms were reviewed for this study. These individuals were selected from a large group of outpatients (552 individuals over a seven-year period) who we...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mohsenifar Z,Collier J,Belman MJ,Koerner SK

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is controversy about whether therapy with inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) modifies the natural history of COPD, characterized by an accelerated decline in FEV(1). METHODS:The Inhaled Steroids Effect Evaluation in COPD (ISEEC) study is a pooled study of patient-level data from seven long-term randomized...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Soriano JB,Sin DD,Zhang X,Camp PG,Anderson JA,Anthonisen NR,Buist AS,Burge PS,Calverley PM,Connett JE,Petersson S,Postma DS,Szafranski W,Vestbo J

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for fiberoptic bronchoscopy in the patient with hemoptysis and a normal or nonlocalizing chest roentgenogram remains a subject of debate. Currently, diagnostic fiberoptic bronchoscopy is recommended as the investigative procedure of choice. To develop predictors that identify the patient in whom fiberoptic br...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Poe RH,Israel RH,Marin MG,Ortiz CR,Dale RC,Wahl GW,Kallay MC,Greenblatt DG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of the use of beta-blockers for congestive heart failure, beginning with the innovative seminal study by the Swedish group in 1975 to studies in 1995, is reviewed and shows that almost all trials favored the use of beta-blockers. They tended to demonstrate an increase in ejection fraction, a decrease in le...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Constant J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient undergoing radical extrapleural pneumonectomy for epithelioid malignant mesothelioma developed acute paraplegia postoperatively related to long-segment spinal cord ischemia. The usual area of concern for this complication is the T9 to T12 area where the artery of Adamkiewicz is most likely to originate. In t...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ural K,Jakob K,Lato S,Gilly G,Landreneau R

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjective assessment of the respiratory rate and the adequacy of tidal ventilation are the oldest and most widely practiced forms of respiratory monitoring in critically ill patients. Surprisingly, this method of assessment has itself never been evaluated in patients. The estimation of tidal volume in nine patients w...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Semmes BJ,Tobin MJ,Snyder JV,Grenvik A

更新日期：1985-05-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The diagnostic value of tumor markers in pleural fluid is subject to debate. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of several tumor markers in common use for detecting malignant pleural disease. DESIGN:Blinded comparison of four tumor markers in pleural fluid with a confirmat...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Porcel JM,Vives M,Esquerda A,Salud A,Pérez B,Rodríguez-Panadero F

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several reports in the literature and our experience prior to 1974 support the thesis that operative risk in patients with acquired heart disease and poor ventricular function (as assessed by a biplane ejection fraction [EF] less than or equal to 0.40) was very significantly increased over the risk in patients with no...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tyers GF,Williams DR,Babb JD,Levenson L,Zelis RF,Waldhausen JA

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is reported of 38-year-old woman with chest pain attributed to a left lung sarcoidosis mass. The mass failed to diminish and symptoms failed to resolve with systemic corticosteroid therapy. CT-guided direct intralesional transthoracic injection of dexamethasone resulted in resolution of the patient's symptoms a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Judson MA,Uflacker R

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:Twenty-six adults (23 to 58 years) with mild to moderate asthma underwent a 10-week supervised rehabilitation program, with emphasis on physical training. In the first 2 weeks, they exercised daily in an indoor swimming pool (33 degrees C) and received education about asthma, medication, and principles of physical tra...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Emtner M,Herala M,Stålenheim G

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Shared decision-making is an essential element of low-dose CT (LDCT) screening for lung cancer. Understanding patient-level outcomes from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) is critical to effectively communicate risks and benefits of screening to patients. METHODS:We performed a secondary analysis of ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Iaccarino JM,Silvestri GA,Wiener RS

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with ventricular inversion with normally related great vessels and double inlet left ventricle is presented. the patient also showed features of Down's syndrome. Association of ventricular inversion with normally related great vessels is rare and leads to a basic functional state like that of complete transp...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tandon R,Moller JH,Edwards JE

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CASE PRESENTATION:A 69-year-old man consulted for a 3-day history of fever, wet cough, and yellow-green phlegm. He denied having any dyspnea, chest pain, hemoptysis, swallowing disorders, choke, chills, asthenia, anorexia, or weight loss. He reported a continuous dry cough and three episodes of pneumonia in the past 4 ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hoan L,Hang LM,Thanh Hong DT,Nhu Quynh NT,Linh LT,Cuong NN,Minh TN,Luan DT,Thang ND,Delphine N

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most studies, many statistical tests are performed. They can be run to compare the groups at baseline, look at relationships among the various measures, and, for intervention trials, examine more than one end point. As the number of tests increases, so does the probability of finding at least one of them to be stat...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Streiner DL,Norman GR

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Sialomucin complex (SMC) is a heterodimeric glycoprotein, and is found on the surfaces of the mesothelia of the pleura, pericardium, and peritoneum. Sialomucins play a significant role in adhesion as well as in defense. In this study, we hypothesized that pleural mesothelial cells (PMCs) express SMC an...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sharma RK,Mohammed KA,Nasreen N,Hardwick J,Van Horn RD,Ramirez-Icaza C,Antony VB

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To compare the outcome of Legionnaires disease (LD) in patients with and without HIV infection. DESIGN:Retrospective review of clinical charts. SETTING:Six hundred-bed university hospital. PATIENTS:We studied the clinical findings of 64 patients without HIV and 15 patients with HIV. Patients with a ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pedro-Botet ML,Sabrià M,Sopena N,García-Núñez M,Dominguez MJ,Reynaga E,Rey-Joly C

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of thoracic radiation therapy in the management of limited-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is reviewed. Although chest irradiation has been used to treat SCLC for over four decades, its standard role in the management of limited-stage disease was established only during the last decade. Multiple prospecti...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kumar P

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00