Carbon dioxide excretion via bronchopleural fistulas in adult respiratory distress syndrome.

abstract：BACKGROUND:A paucity of studies have assessed the epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) that require ICU admission. We conducted a study on this group of patients with the primary objective of defining the incidence, epidemiology, and mortality rate of CAP in the ICUs in Louisville, Kentucky. The secondary...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Cavallazzi R,Furmanek S,Arnold FW,Beavin LA,Wunderink RG,Niederman MS,Ramirez JA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the management of bronchopleurobiliary fistula in a 56-year-old woman who underwent a (L) mastectomy with postoperative radio- and chemotherapy for advanced breast carcinoma and required insertion of inhabiliary Silastic stents for the relief of severe obstructive jaundice. During restaging of her carcinom...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Dasmahapatra HK,Pepper JR

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:C-reactive protein (CRP) has been well recognized as a strong independent predictor of short-term and long-term mortality after non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. However, limited studies have been conducted correlating CRP levels within 6 h following the onset of ST-segment elevation (ST-se)...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Yip HK,Hang CL,Fang CY,Hsieh YK,Yang CH,Hung WC,Wu CJ

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of adult acute epiglottitis that was successfully managed by endotracheal intubation without the need for subsequent tracheostomy. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ward CF,Benumof JL,Shapiro HM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To produce an improved, COPD-specific version of the St. George respiratory questionnaire (SGRQ-C). METHODS:Five different steps were required: (1) Rasch analysis of the responses of 893 COPD patients to the St. George respiratory questionnaire (SGRQ) identified weaker items to be removed; (2) a scoring algo...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Meguro M,Barley EA,Spencer S,Jones PW

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been postulated that right ventricular (RV) function may improve after lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) for severe emphysema due to improvement in lung elastic recoil. Improved lung elastic recoil after LVRS is hypothesized to "tether" open extraalveolar vessels, thereby leading to a decrease in p...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Falk JA,Martin UJ,Scharf S,Criner GJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:Twenty-five patients who have suffered a near miss asthma death (NMAD) have undergone a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation on average 13 months following this event. Forty percent of the patients were judged to have psychiatric disorders at the time of assessment. All patients had very high levels of denial and foll...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Yellowlees PM,Ruffin RE

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interstitial lung disease (ILD) results in high morbidity and health-care utilization. Diagnostic delays remain common and often occur in nonpulmonology settings. Screening for ILD in these settings has the potential to reduce diagnostic delays and improve patient outcomes. RESEARCH QUESTION:This study soug...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pugashetti JV,Kitich A,Alqalyoobi S,Maynard-Paquette AC,Pritchard D,Graham J,Boctor N,Kulinich A,Lafond E,Foster E,Mendez C,Choudhry S,Chalaoui J,Morisset J,Kadoch M,Oldham JM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are produced by virtually all metabolic processes of the body. As such, they have potential to serve as noninvasive metabolic biomarkers. Since exhaled VOCs are either derived from the respiratory tract itself or have passed the lungs from the circulation, they are candidate biomarker...

journal_title：Chest

authors： van der Schee MP,Paff T,Brinkman P,van Aalderen WMC,Haarman EG,Sterk PJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to develop an acute asthma index for utilization in the early differentiation between patients with poor and good therapeutic response in the emergency department (ED) setting. SETTING:The ED of a large tertiary-care hospital in Montevideo, Uruguay. PATIENTS AND DESIGN:The s...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Rodrigo G,Rodrigo C

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To develop and compare ICU length-of-stay (LOS) risk-adjustment models using three commonly used mortality or LOS prediction models. METHODS:Between 2001 and 2004, we performed a retrospective, observational study of 11,295 ICU patients from 35 hospitals in the California Intensive Care Outcomes Project. We...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Vasilevskis EE,Kuzniewicz MW,Cason BA,Lane RK,Dean ML,Clay T,Rennie DJ,Vittinghoff E,Dudley RA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients had hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and coronary artery spasm. The clinical diagnosis of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, in all patients, was confirmed by echocardiography and angiography. Significant spasm of the right coronary artery was demonstrated in each patient by selective coron...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mautner RK,Thomas I,Dhurandhar R,Phillips JH

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-nine patients were studied who had severe tricuspid regurgitation which was confirmed by right ventriculography and during surgery in order to determine the incidence of clinical, radiologic, and hemodynamic clues of severe tricuspid regurgitation. Eighty-eight percent of patients had Carvallo sign alone or in c...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Cha SD,Desai RS,Gooch AS,Maranhao V,Goldberg H

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postinfluenza toxic shock syndrome is a recently described entity that results from a respiratory tract infection with toxin-producing Staphylococcus aureus following an episode of influenza or influenzalike illness. This report describes a 19-year-old man who developed an influenza B respiratory infection complicated...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Prechter GC,Gerhard AK

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced or second-degree atrioventricular (AV) heart block pre-existing or developing during atrial pacing (AP) at low heart rates of smaller than 130 per minute, limits the value of AP to stress the left ventricle. When Wenkebach type AV block is present, the heart rate can be increased by administration of atropine...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kimbiris D,Linhart JW

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery fistulas have been traditionally diagnosed by angiography. This report describes a congenital and a traumatic coronary artery fistula diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography. Transesophageal echocardiography was superior to transthoracic echocardiography in both cases and to angiography in one ca...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Prewitt KC,Smolin MR,Coster TS,Vernalis MN,Bunda M,Wortham DC

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study to assess the effect of the long-term use of triamcinolone acetonide (TA) on adrenal function was conducted with 143 male and female patients with asthma who were randomly assigned to receive 800, 1200, or 1,600 micrograms of TA daily for six months. Adrenal function was assessed prior to treatment and after t...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Altman LC,Findlay SR,Lopez M,Lukacsko P,Morris RJ,Pinnas JL,Ratner PH,Szefler SJ,Welch MJ

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes two patients with multidrug resistant tuberculosis who were successfully treated with the addition of amoxicillin-clavulanic acid to second-line drugs. Mycobacterium tuberculosis possesses a beta-lactamase contributing to its resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics. The combination of clavulanic ac...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nadler JP,Berger J,Nord JA,Cofsky R,Saxena M

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of deep lung insufflations on maximum insufflation capacities (MICs) and peak cough flows (PCFs) for patients with neuromuscular disease. METHOD:Forty-three patients with neuromuscular disease were trained in stacking delivered volumes of air to deep lung insufflation and were presc...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kang SW,Bach JR

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha 1-Antitrypsin (alpha 1-AT) accumulates in the rough endoplasmic reticulum through a mechanism of polymerization. Polymerization is favored by the incorrect tertiary structure of the alpha 1-AT caused by a point mutation at position 342 of the protein. Accumulation of alpha 1-AT in the liver cells (and in hepatoc...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Massi G

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the findings in two patients with sulfasalazine-induced pulmonary disease. The first patient developed pulmonary interstitial fibrosis after more than 4 yr of treatment for Crohn's disease. Pulmonary symptoms and chest roentgenographic and pulmonary function abnormalities gradually reversed after stopping th...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hamadeh MA,Atkinson J,Smith LJ

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It would be valuable to have a noninvasive method of measuring impaired pulmonary gas exchange in patients with lung disease and thus reduce the need for repeated arterial punctures. This study reports the results of using a new test in a group of outpatients attending a pulmonary clinic. METHODS:Inspired a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： West JB,Crouch DR,Fine JM,Makadia D,Wang DL,Prisk GK

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:In the present study, we evaluated the leukocyte esterase (LE) area of a reagent strip designed for urinalysis for the semiquantitative measurement of the percentage of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) in BAL fluid. DESIGN:Prospective. The relative PMN counts (obtained by conventional microscopy an...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Jacobs JA,De Brauwer EI,Cornelissen EI,Drent M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While the beneficial effect of exercise capacity on mortality is well-accepted, its effect on health-care costs remains uncertain. This study investigates the relationship between exercise capacity and health-care costs. METHODS:The Veterans Affairs Health Care System recently implemented a Decision Support...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Weiss JP,Froelicher VF,Myers JN,Heidenreich PA

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary specimens obtained from ten normal subjects and 53 patients with various pulmonary diseases were studied with energy-dispersive x-ray analysis. The amount of silicon in the pulmonary tissue was determined and expressed as a silicon/sulfur (Si/S) ratio. This Si/S ratio was below 0.2 in the ten normal subjects...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Funahashi A,Schlueter DP,Pintar K,Siegesmund KA

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra- and interobserver variations in the measurement of systolic time intervals (STIs) by three experienced cardiologists were investigated in 20 tracings on which phonocardiograms, carotid pulse and electrocardiograms were recorded simultaneously. The STIs studied were the time interval from the Q wave to the aorti...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ishikawa K,Ishikawa M,Morihara H,Yanagisawa A,Muramatsu J,Sawayama T,Maeda K

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The diaphragm plays a pivotal role in weaning and successful extubation. We hypothesized that ultrasonographic evaluation of the movements of the diaphragm by measuring liver/spleen displacement during spontaneous breathing trials is a good predictor for extubation outcome. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The studie...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Jiang JR,Tsai TH,Jerng JS,Yu CJ,Wu HD,Yang PC

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac death is the leading cause of mortality associated with sarcoidosis in Japan. However, the involvement of sarcoidosis infiltration often remains undetected. Recently, late gadolinium enhancement with cardiovascular MRI (LGE-CMR) imaging has been introduced for the detection of myocardial infiltrative...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nagai T,Kohsaka S,Okuda S,Anzai T,Asano K,Fukuda K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of filtration and concentration on the cellular and protein composition of bronchoalveolar lavage fluids were examined in ten normal subjects and 11 patients with asthma. Filtration of lavage fluid preferentially removed bronchial epithelial cells, resulting in a relative increase in the proportion of alve...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lam S,LeRiche JC,Kijek K

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00