A 72-Year-Old Man With a Violaceous Rash and Sepsis.

abstract：:A 60-year-old man presented with features of superior vena cava (SVC) obstruction. On evaluation, he was diagnosed as having angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia (AILD). SVC obstruction due to AILD, to our knowledge, has not been described. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sanghvi S,Kothari AS,Hathi BC,Sharma RG

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 56-year-old woman presented to our hospital with a 4-month history of worsening chest pain. She denied having any respiratory symptoms, such as dyspnea, sputum, cough, or hemoptysis, or any history of smoking or exposure to dusts. One year previously she had a vertebral fracture. There was no specific family history...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kato T,Muto H,Hishima T,Kawashima M,Nagai H,Matsui H,Shimada M,Hebisawa A,Doki N,Miyawaki S,Ohashi K

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare disease characterized by recurrent inflammation and destruction of the cartilaginous structures. Tracheobronchial chondritis is a dreaded complication of RP. We wish to report a case of RP of the trachea and bronchi which was treated with nasal continuous positive airway pressur...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Adliff M,Ngato D,Keshavjee S,Brenaman S,Granton JT

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), a major cause of ICU infection, results in high morbidity, mortality, and health-care costs. Multiple risk factors for VAP involve complex host factors and ubiquitous pathogens that require several different types of prevention strategies. Prevention efforts should focus on reduc...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Craven DE

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Choices of pharmacologic therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) are ideally guided by high-level evidence. The objective of this guideline is to provide clinicians advice regarding pharmacologic therapy for adult patients with PAH as informed by available evidence. METHODS:This guideline was bas...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Taichman DB,Ornelas J,Chung L,Klinger JR,Lewis S,Mandel J,Palevsky HI,Rich S,Sood N,Rosenzweig EB,Trow TK,Yung R,Elliott CG,Badesch DB

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The echocardiographic diagnosis of acute rupture of a papillary muscle is described. The pertinent findings included (1) decreased systolic motion of the posterior wall, (2) exaggerated septal motion, (3) left ventricular enlargement and pattern suggesting left ventricular diastolic overload, and (4) bizarre flutterin...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ahmad S,Kleiger RE,Connors J,Krone R

更新日期：1978-02-01 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：:A case is presented of a reversible intra-Hisian block occurring under amiodarone treatment for atrial tachycardia in a patient without clear intraventricular conduction abnormalities. His bundle recordings showed an atrial tachycardia with intermittent exit block and greatly prolonged BH and HV intervals (40 and 100 ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Santinelli V,Chiariello M,Ambrosio G,Stanislao M,Condorelli M

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite major advances in our understanding of the pathophysiologic processes leading to pulmonary arterial hypertension and recent developments in therapeutic approaches, the long-term prognosis for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension remains unsatisfactory. Early detection and adequate clinical classificat...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Provencher S,Jais X,Yaici A,Sitbon O,Humbert M,Simonneau G

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to characterize the effectiveness of cardiology consultation, the outcomes of consultants' recommendations for diagnostic actions and cardiac drugs were quantitatively examined in 394 cases. Drug recommendations were made more frequently (49 percent) than diagnostic recommendations (38 percent) and were a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mackenzie TB,Popkin MK,Callies AL,Jorgensen CR,Cohn JN

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 causes severe acute lung injury in approximately 5% of infected adults, but few reports have been made of severe pediatric disease. We present an adolescent patient who contracted severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 one week after a paterna...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Fisler G,Haimed A,Levy CF,Stiles J,Capone CA,Fish JD,Brochstein JA,Taylor MD

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cilia line the surface of the respiratory tract and beat in a coordinated wave to protect the lungs against infection. Bardet Biedl Syndrome (BBS) is a rare condition attributed to cilia dysfunction. Murine models of BBS suggest a respiratory phenotype; however, no reports have studied the translation of the...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Shoemark A,Dixon M,Beales PL,Hogg CL

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:Pill aspiration represents a unique type of foreign body aspiration requiring a distinct diagnostic and therapeutic approach. In many cases, the "foreign body" itself may no longer be present, whereas the airway manifestations may persist for months to years. Limited data exist to guide management decisions. We report...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kinsey CM,Folch E,Majid A,Channick CL

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In California, state law now prohibits smoking in most public places. We examined the prevalence and short-term health impact of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure during travel among adults with asthma. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS:A cohort of 374 nonsmoking adults with asthma recruited from a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Eisner MD,Blanc PD

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disappointing results of surgery and postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy in stage IIIA (N2) lung cancer have led to a number of phase II trials of induction (neoadjuvant) chemotherapy given prior to surgery. Preliminary results of 2 such studies indicate that mitomycin, vinca alkaloid, and platinu...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ginsberg RJ

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients receiving positive pressure ventilation experienced marked gaseous abdominal distension. Analysis of gases from the stomach, ventilator, and room air suggested that the gastric gases came from the ventilator in one patient. The diagnosis of tracheoesophageal fistula was confirmed by esophagoscopy. Analysi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kovitz KL,Siebens A,Brower RG

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Cysteinyl leukotrienes are important proinflammatory mediators in the pathogenesis of asthma. Since bronchial hyperresponsiveness is a noninvasive surrogate marker of asthmatic airway inflammation, we evaluated the bronchoprotection afforded by leukotriene receptor antagonists (LTRAs). DESIGN:Systemati...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Currie GP,Lipworth BJ

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surgical treatment of the completely obstructed left main coronary artery is aortocoronary saphenous-vein bypass to the left coronary artery system. Without surgical intervention, this lesion has an exceedingly poor prognosis. This report describes a patient with atherosclerotic obstruction of the left main corona...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sutherland RD,Allison W,Guynes WA,Martinez HE

更新日期：1976-02-01 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：:Cardiac dysfunction due to systemic sarcoidosis is most of ten due to severe restrictive pulmonary diseases. Although the diagnosis is frequently missed during life, direct granulomatous infiltration of the myocardium may occur with systemic sarcoidosis and, when present in the heart, is a major cause of death. To exp...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bulkley BH,Rouleau JR,Whitaker JQ,Strauss HW,Pitt B

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We hypothesized that intermittent hypoxia might influence serum substance P levels, and that this effect might in turn contribute in excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). PATIENTS AND METHODS:Fifty-five patients with newly diagnosed OSAS and 15 age-match...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ursavas A,Karadag M,Ilcol YO,Burgazlioglu B,Ercan I,Gozu RO

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are probably observing a recrudescent epidemic of RLF which has elicited surprisingly little attention from the medical community. Given present data, it is not unreasonable to conclude that there is a true epidemic and that its etiologic basis involves a population of infants with high susceptibility to oxygen tox...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Robin ED,Burke CM

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSES:To evaluate the safety of inferior vena cava (IVC) filter retrieval in therapeutically anticoagulated patients in comparison to prophylactically or not therapeutically anticoagulated patients with respect to retrieval-related hemorrhagic complications. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This was a retrospective study of 1...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hoppe H,Kaufman JA,Barton RE,Petersen BD,Lakin PC,Deloughery TG,Irani Z,Yavuz K,Keller FS

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the long-term clinical benefits of palliative Nd:YAG laser photoresection, we studied 69 patients with obstructing exophytic tracheobronchial lesions treated with this modality between Oct 25, 1984 and May 8, 1989. In 55 patients, there was greater than 75 percent restoration of the luminal caliber ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ross DJ,Mohsenifar Z,Koerner SK

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physicians are often asked about complementary therapies by patients with cancer, and data show that the interest in and use of these therapies among patients with cancer is common. Therefore, it is important to assess the current evidence base on the benefits and risks of complementary therapies (modalities...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Deng GE,Rausch SM,Jones LW,Gulati A,Kumar NB,Greenlee H,Pietanza MC,Cassileth BR

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) frequently involves the pleura with resultant pleural effusion. Previous studies have reported that detection of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) in pleural fluid using animal tissue as substrate was a sensitive and specific method for distinguishing SLE pleural effusions from other etio...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Khare V,Baethge B,Lang S,Wolf RE,Campbell GD Jr

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The institution of inhaled corticosteroids is generally advocated for effective treatment of patients with asthma. It is yet unknown what is the best time to start inhaled corticosteroid therapy and especially whether delayed introduction is harmful. PHASE 1: In a previous study in patients with asthma and C...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Overbeek SE,Kerstjens HA,Bogaard JM,Mulder PG,Postma DS

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a growing use of procalcitonin (PCT) to facilitate the diagnosis and management of severe sepsis. We investigated the impact of one to two PCT determinations on ICU day 1 on health-care utilization and cost in a large research database. METHODS:A retrospective, propensity score-matched multivariabl...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Balk RA,Kadri SS,Cao Z,Robinson SB,Lipkin C,Bozzette SA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of glucagon has been shown to decrease pulmonary vascular resistance, but its primary site of action is undetermined. Whether this is on the arterial or venous side of the capillary would be reflected in the microvascular hydrostatic pressure. We used the pulmonary flow of lymph, a sensitive index of th...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Demling RH,Manohar M,Will J

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00