In vivo right heart thrombus. Precursor of life-threatening pulmonary embolism.

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：:We encountered a clinical problem in a young man who presented with a left upper lobe mass and a diffuse reticular-nodular infiltrate. We thought we had appropriately applied Murphy's Law (the famed bank robber who "went where the money is"), and Ockham's Razor (the philosopher William of Ockham [1285 to 1349]-"Entiti...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Jackson HD,Carney KJ,Knautz MA,Tenholder MF

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echocardiography has proven a useful and sensitive means to determine noninvasively the cardiac dimensions. This report describes the echocardiographic detection of progressive dilatation of the aortic root over an 18-month period, which led to death in a 33-year-old man with Marfan's syndrome; however, at no time was...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Come PC,Bulkley BH,McKusick VA,Fortuin NJ

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histopathologic appearance of lung carcinoma remains an important guide to prognosis and treatment. The newly revised World Health Organization classification retains the broadest pathologic categories of the older classification but includes several revisions, including the elimination of the small cell, intermed...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Franklin WA

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To assess the factors associated with reintubation in patients who had successfully passed a spontaneous breathing trial. METHODS:We used logistic regression and recursive partitioning analyses of prospectively collected clinical data from adults admitted to ICUs of 37 hospitals in eight countries, who had ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Frutos-Vivar F,Ferguson ND,Esteban A,Epstein SK,Arabi Y,Apezteguía C,González M,Hill NS,Nava S,D'Empaire G,Anzueto A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In adult patients, the consistent use of language to describe dyspnea enhances patient-provider communication and contributes to diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. The objective of this research was to determine whether pediatric patients similarly display consistency in the language used to describe "unc...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Harver A,Schwartzstein RM,Kotses H,Humphries CT,Schmaling KB,Mullin ML

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is a fascinating disease entity of unknown etiology. It is prevalent in the tropical zone. Its essential features are the formation of fibrous tissue on the endocardium and to a lesser extent in the myocardium of the inflow tract and apex of one or both ventricles. It results in endocardi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hassan WM,Fawzy ME,Al Helaly S,Hegazy H,Malik S

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some studies have demonstrated that the function of the growth hormone (GH)-insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 axis is significantly impaired in patients with oral corticosteroid (CS)-induced osteoporosis. The aim of study was to investigate the effects of long-term therapy with inhaled CSs (ICSs) on the hyp...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Malerba M,Bossoni S,Radaeli A,Mori E,Bonadonna S,Giustina A,Tantucci C

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：SETTING:Seven primary health clinics and a pulmonary disease specialty clinic in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate a commercial immunochromatographic test kit (ICT Tuberculosis; AMRAD-ICT; Sidney, Australia) employing five recombinant Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins for the detection of pulmonary ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Perkins MD,Conde MB,Martins M,Kritski AL

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To validate color Doppler ultrasonography of renal arteries for the assessment of renal blood flow (RBF), we compared left and right RBF estimates and their sum (total RBF) by echo-Doppler with data obtained by iodine 123-123I-p-aminohippuric acid (PAH) scintigraphy in 19 patients with heart failure and 7 normal contr...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Vigna C,Russo A,Barbano F,Fusilli S,Loperfido F

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some patients with autoimmune characteristics and idiopathic interstitial pneumonia, particularly usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP), do not fit neatly into the category of connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease (CTD-ILD), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), or recently proposed yet ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Collins BF,Spiekerman CF,Shaw MA,Ho LA,Hayes J,Spada CA,Stamato CM,Raghu G

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrocardiogram changes and pharmacologic responses were studied in 28 cases of brain death. Cardiac activity in this condition is possibly determined by the dynamic balance between the depressant action of hypothermia and the stimulating action of the sympathetic nervous system (without any vagal or central influen...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Drory Y,Ouaknine G,Kosary IZ,Kellermann JJ

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac tamponade, a potentially lethal complication following cardiac surgery, may present either early or late postoperatively and may be difficult to diagnose due to atypical clinical, hemodynamic, or echocardiographic findings. To determine the frequency and clinical features of postoperative cardiac tamponade, we...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Russo AM,O'Connor WH,Waxman HL

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this investigation, we examined changes in exfoliated tracheobronchial cells in sputum in 46 individuals (mean age = 49.2 years; mean packyears = 48.7) who discontinued smoking and 37 individuals (mean age = 54.9 years; mean packyears = 65.2) who continued to smoke over a 12-month period after participation in the ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Swan GE,Hodgkin JE,Roby T,Mittman C,Jacobo N,Peters J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 17-year-old girl with primary pulmonary hypertension was treated with longterm administration of oxygen. Oxygen was delivered only at night for eight hours daily. Her clinical status has been improved for more than 17 months. Cardiac catheterization revealed almost 50 percent reduction of pulmonary vascular resistan...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nagasaka Y,Akutsu H,Lee YS,Fujimoto S,Chikamori J

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Every year, millions of patients are diagnosed with pulmonary nodules, and as increasing numbers of people undergo lung cancer screening, even more patients will be found to have a nodule. The vast majority of patients cannot benefit from the detection of a pulmonary nodule because most are benign. Accordingly, it is ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Slatore CG,Wiener RS

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 19-year-old man with untreated systemic lupus erythematosus had an acute myocardial infarction. A coronary arteriogram five hours after the onset of symptoms revealed total occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Reperfusion was achieved by coronary thrombolytic therapy with urokinase. Four weeks ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Takatsu Y,Hattori R,Sakaguchi K,Yui Y,Kawai C

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tobacco smoke is a major risk factor in the development of COPD. Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure is a known risk factor in asthma, bronchitis, and coronary artery disease. Elastin is a recognized target for injury in COPD, and the amino acids desmosine and isodesmosine (D/I), which are specific for elastin d...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Slowik N,Ma S,He J,Lin YY,Soldin OP,Robbins RA,Turino GM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) findings in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), 39 patients seropositive for the virus but with no history of opportunistic infection were studied. Opportunistic organisms such as Pneumocystis carinii were not found in any of the 35 BAL fluids sent for sp...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Johnson JE,Anders GT,Hawkes CE,LaHatte LJ,Blanton HM

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article addresses two basic questions about ethics committees: why we have them, and how they might be helpful to clinicians. Our answer to the first question is twofold. First, we suggest that legal, regulatory, and professional forces drove the development of ethics committees, particularly as an alternative to...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Aulisio MP,Arnold RM

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a minimally invasive procedure with a high yield for lymph node staging of lung cancer. The aim of this study was to assess the utility of sonographic features of lymph nodes during EBUS-TBNA for the prediction of metastasis in p...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Fujiwara T,Yasufuku K,Nakajima T,Chiyo M,Yoshida S,Suzuki M,Shibuya K,Hiroshima K,Nakatani Y,Yoshino I

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxic-oil syndrome (TOS) is a multisystem disorder whose etiology and pathogenesis are as yet unknown. Lung alterations persist in a significant number of TOS patients due to the underlying vascular lesion. Computer-assisted 67Ga scanning and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) studies were performed in 14 TOS patients w...

journal_title：Chest

authors： De la Cruz JL,Oteo LA,López C,Curto LM,Burgaleta C,Campos A,Sueiro A

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with regionally extensive non-small cell lung cancer (predominantly by virtue of metastases to mediastinal lymph nodes, less commonly by direct extension into the mediastinum) were treated predominantly with chest radiation therapy alone until the early 1980s. At that time, because of the high local recurrenc...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Eagan RT

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most patients who receive a diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have advanced disease and are not curable with surgery. Developments in the technology of radiation therapy (RT) have contributed to the broad utility of this treatment modality in both a curative and palliative capacity. Many patients at all ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sause WT

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 80-year-old man presented because of superficial head trauma sustained after falling from bed. On review of systems, he reported worsening dyspnea on exertion, nonproductive cough, and weight loss over the preceding 2 to 3 months. There was no report of chest pain or leg swelling. He had a past medical history of h...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gupta A,Farokhi M,Shah S,McGarry T,Warshawsky M,Epelbaum O

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this 12-week study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of adjunct modafinil to treat excessive sleepiness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) who experience residual sleepiness despite regular nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) use. DESIGN:Twelve-week, open...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Schwartz JR,Hirshkowitz M,Erman MK,Schmidt-Nowara W

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postoperative cardiac tamponade due to localized compression of the atria occurred in a 64-year-old man after aortic valve replacement and repair of an ascending aortic dissection. The clinical findings were subtle and the echocardiographic findings were unusual. Color Doppler flow imaging assisted in making the diagn...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Otto CM,McKeown PP,Pearlman AS

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature on pulmonary function testing in sarcoidosis is critically reviewed. The results indicate that pulmonary function tests are not a reliable means for detecting the presence of parenchymal sarcoidosis, nor do they provide an accurate estimate of the extent of parenchymal disease. There are at present no k...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Winterbauer RH,Hutchinson JF

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Self-efficacy explores the emotional functioning and coping skills of an individual and is thought to be a strong predictor of health behaviors, which is particularly important for pulmonary rehabilitation (PR). However, to our knowledge, there is no measure of self-efficacy developed to explore behavior cha...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Vincent E,Sewell L,Wagg K,Deacon S,Williams J,Singh S

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To evaluate an equation that estimates resting energy expenditure from two easily obtained measurements--expired carbon dioxide and minute ventilation, and compare the results of this equation with standard methods of estimating and measuring caloric expenditure in mechanically ventilated patients. DES...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sherman MS

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00