A Blueprint for Success: Design and Implementation of an Ideal Bronchoscopy Suite.

abstract：:We investigated 654 subjects of a small Lombardy (Italy) town between 15 and 64 years of age who were representative of the general population. By clinical examination, the sample included 535 normal subjects (164 normal smokers, 341 normal nonsmokers, 30 normal subjects with acute upper respiratory illness within 30 ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Cerveri I,Bruschi C,Zoia MC,Zanon P,Maccarini L,Grassi M,Rampulla C

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical effect of inhaled radio-labeled (Technetium-99m diethylenetriamine-pentaacetic acid) methacholine was studied in two separate experiments performed in eight symptom-free asthmatics with bronchial hyperresponsiveness. Aerosols were formed by two different nebulizers, producing either mainly small aerosol p...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Schmekel B,Hedenström H,Kämpe M,Lagerstrand L,Stålenheim G,Wollmer P,Hedenstierna G

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health-care workers are concerned about the risk of acquiring contagious diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome and avian influenza after recent outbreaks. We studied exhaled air and particle dispersion through an oronasal mask attached to a human-patient simulator (HPS) during noninvasive positi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hui DS,Hall SD,Chan MT,Chow BK,Tsou JY,Joynt GM,Sullivan CE,Sung JJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lymph node status is a major determinant of stage and survival in patients with lung cancer; however, little information is available about the expected yield of a mediastinal lymphadenectomy. METHODS:The American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Z0030 prospective, randomized trial of mediastinal lymph no...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Darling GE,Allen MS,Decker PA,Ballman K,Malthaner RA,Inculet RI,Jones DR,McKenna RJ,Landreneau RJ,Putnam JB Jr

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data on patients with cancer who have a prolonged length of stay (LOS) in the ICU are scarce. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the characteristics and the outcomes of cancer patients with life-threatening complications with an ICU stay > or = 21 days. METHODS:A cohort study performed at a 10-bed...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Soares M,Salluh JIF,Torres VBL,Leal JVR,Spector N

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared the bronchodilator effect in experimental canine asthma of dyphylline administered by aerosol and intravenous routes in doses producing equivalent concentrations of the drug in the plasma. Pulmonary resistance (RL) was calculated from simultaneous measurements of pressure and flow during fixed-volu...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hirshman CA,Lawyer C,Downes H,Farbood A,Rodgers R,Gerber N

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreaticopleural fistula secondary to chronic pancreatitis is a rare cause of recurrent pleural effusion. The demonstration of the fistula with endoscopic retrograde pancreatography and CT is invasive or limited. We report in two patients the use of magnetic resonance pancreatography as a noninvasive alternative to ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Materne R,Vranckx P,Pauls C,Coche EE,Deprez P,Van Beers BE

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Pocket hematoma is a common complication after pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation. Thus, we investigated the influence of patient comorbidity, implantation strategy, operator experience, antiplatelet therapy, and anticoagulation therapy on hematoma rate. DESIGN:Betw...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wiegand UK,LeJeune D,Boguschewski F,Bonnemeier H,Eberhardt F,Schunkert H,Bode F

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the efficacy and complications of noninvasive nasal mask bilevel continuous positive airway pressure ventilation in pediatric patients with hypoxemic respiratory insufficiency. DESIGN:Retrospective chart review. SETTING:Intensive care unit, university affiliated tertiary care children's hospita...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Fortenberry JD,Del Toro J,Jefferson LS,Evey L,Haase D

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A fixed combination of long-acting beta(2)-agonists (LABA) plus inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) has never been proven to reduce asthma exacerbations vs ICS alone in children. This 12-month, double-blind, randomized study in 341 children (age range, 4 to 11 years) with asthma uncontrolled on ICS investigated wh...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bisgaard H,Le Roux P,Bjåmer D,Dymek A,Vermeulen JH,Hultquist C

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing number of drugs, including a number of alkylating agents, have been implicated as the cause of pulmonary diseases. A patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia presented with typical cytology, biopsy, and roentgenologic findings of lung toxicity after only six weeks of therapy with busulfan. There was subsequ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hankins DG,Sanders S,MacDonald FM,Drage CW

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two consecutive patients underwent esophageal stimulation and recording for the diagnosis and management of supraventricular tachycardia. In 13 of these patients, the resting electrocardiogram was normal and in nine it showed pre-excitation. Of the 13 patients with a normal resting electrocardiogram, supraventr...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Harte MT,Teo KK,Horgan JH

更新日期：1988-02-01 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：:A 34-year-old HIV-infected man was successfully treated with antimicrobial therapy alone for Rhodococcus equi pneumonia and has survived longer than six months. In the current literature, only two of seven HIV-infected patients so treated have survived as long as six months. Based on our experience and the available l...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Cury JD,Harrington PT,Hosein IK

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO2) monitoring to reflect changes in cardiac index (CI) with therapy in critically ill patients is unclear. To this end, SvO2 and CI were measured before and during an infusion of enoximone and/or dobutamine in 30 patients with advanced heart failure. A nonlinear relati...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Jain A,Shroff SG,Janicki JS,Reddy HK,Weber KT

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 55-year-old man demonstrated typical reflux esophagitis, not esophageal spasm, by esophageal manometry, although he demonstrated classic migraine, positive Raynaud's scan, and proven coronary artery spasm. He suffered from severe chest pain by medication of ergotamine tartrate. Ergot alkaloids should be avoided in p...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Koh KK,Roe IH,Lee MM,Cho SK,Kim SS

更新日期：1994-04-01 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：:KL-6, a mucinous high-molecular weight glycoprotein, expressed on type II pneumonocytes, is elevated in the serum of patients with active interstitial pneumonia. Forty-seven patients with histologically confirmed sarcoidosis were analyzed by chest radiography, CT, 67Ga scintigraphy, BAL fluid (BALF), and serum KL-6. S...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kobayashi J,Kitamura S

更新日期：1996-05-01 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

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：:The adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a devastating clinical illness characterized by refractory hypoxemia and high-permeability pulmonary edema. Reactive oxygen species such as hydrogen peroxide and hypochlorous acid may play a key role in the pathogenesis of the acute lung injury. Glutathione (GSH) is a ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pacht ER,Timerman AP,Lykens MG,Merola AJ

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granular cell myoblastoma (GCM) is a rare benign neoplasm involving the tracheobronchial tree. It is believed to arise from the Schwann cell. Four cases of tracheobronchial GCM, all of which were multicentric, are presented and a conservative therapeutic approach is suggested. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Redjaee B,Rohatgi PK,Herman MA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve adult patients with ostium primum atrial septal defects (incomplete endocardial cushion defect) who underwent surgical repair of their lesions were evaluated in the late postoperative period. All had closure of the low-lying atrial septal defect, with suturing of the mitral valve cleft in 11 patients. Although ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Goodman DJ,Harrison DC,Schroeder JS

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients under two years of age are described with unusual fistulas involving the brachiocephalic arteries and the innominate vein or the superior vena cava. Two patients were asymptomatic, and one newborn was cyanotic and in congestive failure. This unusual presentation has only rarely been reported in thoracic...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gutierrez FR,Monaco MP,Hartmann AF Jr,McKnight RC

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:This prospective study was performed in an attempt to evaluate (1) the rate of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrating bone marrow (BM) abnormalities, (2) the correlation of these abnormalities with a pathologic malignant BM involvement, and (3) the possible modification of patients' usual diseas...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Milleron BJ,Le Breton C,Carette MF,Cadranel JL,Akoun GM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expired gas and gas leaked via thoracostomy tubes was collected in nine patients with the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and bronchopleural fistulas. Mean minute ventilation in the group was 23.9 +/- 7.5 L/min with 31 +/- 23 percent of the gas escaping via the leak. Carbon dioxide was present in the leaked...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bishop MJ,Benson MS,Pierson DJ

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:COPD is associated with significant morbidity primarily driven by acute exacerbations. Relative pulmonary artery (PA) enlargement, defined as a PA to ascending aorta (A) diameter ratio greater than one (PA:A>1) identifies patients at increased risk for exacerbations. However, little is known about the correl...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Iyer AS,Wells JM,Vishin S,Bhatt SP,Wille KM,Dransfield MT

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucociliary clearance (MCC) is one of the most important nonspecific defense mechanisms of the respiratory tract, and its impairment is a well-documented feature of chronic respiratory diseases, including asthma. In vitro and in vivo data suggest that several inflammatory mediators influence the mucociliary apparatus....

journal_title：Chest

authors： Del Donno M,Bittesnich D,Chetta A,Olivieri D,Lopez-Vidriero MT

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assessed right and left ventricular function by multigated radionuclide ventriculography in 12 consecutive patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) grouped according to the CDC classification system for HIV infection. Results were correlated with clinical, electrocardiographic and echocardiograp...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Raffanti SP,Chiaramida AJ,Sen P,Wright P,Middleton JR,Chiaramida S

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acute cavitary histoplasmosis in the upper lobes is documented. The relationship of this entity to chronic cavitary histoplasmosis is discussed. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Davies SF,Sarosi GA

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00