Diagnostic accuracy of coronary angiography utilizing computer-based digital subtraction methods. Comparison to conventional cineangiography.

abstract：:From 1982 to 1989, ECD was performed on 18 patients suffering from poorly-tolerated massive pulmonary embolism, for whom classic treatments (fibrinolytics and surgery) were impossible. Eleven of these 18 patients immediately improved (S group). This procedure was unsuccessful in other seven patients (F group). Thirtee...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Timsit JF,Reynaud P,Meyer G,Sors H

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ipsilateral recurrence rate after the first spontaneous pneumothorax treated with tube thoracostomy is reported to be between 23 percent and 52 percent. The incidence of recurrence after the first recurrence is substantially higher. Chemical pleurodesis has been attempted to decrease the recurrence rate. Tetracycl...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Milanez JR,Vargas FS,Filomeno LT,Fernandez A,Jatene A,Light RW

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parenteral tetracycline, one of the most commonly used agents for producing pleurodesis, is no longer available because of stricter regulations governing the manufacturing process. The objective of this project was to determine whether minocycline, a tetracycline derivative, is an effective sclerosant in an experiment...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Light RW,Wang NS,Sassoon CS,Gruer SE,Vargas FS

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen postmenopausal women were examined by Doppler echocardiography before initiation of HRT (T1), then after ten weeks (T2) and one year (T3). This study group was compared with another in which HRT was not used. Flow velocity integral, which correlates with SV, and MA, an indicator of cardiac contractility, were...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pines A,Fisman EZ,Ayalon D,Drory Y,Averbuch M,Levo Y

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of neuromuscular blocking agents, particularly pancuronium, in patients receiving mechanical ventilation has been reported to cause prolonged paralysis and atrophy. We describe two mechanically ventilated patients with asthma who developed prolonged muscular weakness and atrophy after receiving the shorter-act...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Margolis BD,Khachikian D,Friedman Y,Garrard C

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echocardiographic studies were performed in 86 patients with right ventricular volume overload. In 45 of these 86 patients, 58 echocardiograms were performed at different intervals in the postoperative period. For control purposes, 60 normal subjects and 18 patients with right ventricular pressure overload were also e...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Laurenceau JL,Dumesnil JG

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), also called B-type natriuretic peptide, is a member of a family of structurally related hormones, the natriuretic peptides. Current data suggest that measurement of BNP plasma concentrations is a useful tool in the diagnosis of acute heart failure in patients presenting to an emergency...

journal_title：Chest

authors： de Denus S,Pharand C,Williamson DR

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure posterior mediastinal cystic lymphangiomas are very rare and have seldom been documented. This is the report of such a case, including the ultrasonographic and computed tomographic manifestations of the lesion, the first documentation of such manifestations in the literature. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Murayama S

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inspiratory muscle weakness and abnormalities in breathing pattern and in respiratory drive have been reported in patients with multisystem disorders. In patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), data on respiratory muscle strength and control of breathing are scarce. METHODS:We studied a subset of ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Scano G,Goti P,Duranti R,Misuri G,Emmi L,Rosi E

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) used as propellants in metered-dose inhalers deplete stratospheric ozone, which results in serious public health concerns. Albuterol has been reformulated in the non-ozone-depleting propellant, hydrofluoroalkane-134a (HFA albuterol). OBJECTIVES:The primary objective was to compare...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ramsdell JW,Klinger NM,Ekholm BP,Colice GL

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：:Present-day technology has greatly facilitated the monitoring of respiratory gas exchange in the clinical exercise laboratory. Despite the growing use of these techniques to assess the severity and progression of disease or therapeutic response in patients with heart failure, the long-term reproducibility of oxygen up...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Janicki JS,Gupta S,Ferris ST,McElroy PA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peak exercise oxygen consumption (peak VO2), which is considered an indicator of prognosis in advanced heart failure, is currently being used as a major criterion in many centers for the selection of candidates for heart transplantation. Available studies suggest that patients with peak VO2 < 14 mL/min/kg ha...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ramos-Barbón D,Fitchett D,Gibbons WJ,Latter DA,Levy RD

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 20-year period, 83 patients underwent operative pleurodesis with resection of pulmonary blebs for spontaneous pneumothorax. Follow-up for all patients was between 5 and 25 years, with a mean of 9.1 years. There were five early (5.6 percent) and three late recurrences (3.6 percent). There were no deaths or need ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Donahue DM,Wright CD,Viale G,Mathisen DJ

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We conducted the first randomized controlled study to assess the effects of short-term 28% and 100% oxygen on PaCO(2) and peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) in patients with acute severe asthma. PATIENTS AND INTERVENTIONS:Seventy-four patients (mean age, 37.9 +/- 9.7 years [+/- SD]; PEFR, 41.0 +/- 12.1% ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Rodrigo GJ,Rodriquez Verde M,Peregalli V,Rodrigo C

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease affecting predominantly populations surrounding the Mediterranean basin. It is the most prevalent hereditary periodic fever syndrome characterized mainly by recurrent and short attacks of fever and serositis (pleuritis, arthritis, peritonitis). Unila...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Katsenos S,Mermigkis C,Psathakis K,Tsintiris K,Polychronopoulos V,Panagou P,Ritis K,Light RW

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Byssinosis first became compensatable in Great Britain in May 1941. The claimants were examined by a specially constituted board consisting of chest physicians and medical specialists from the Manchester area. Following the Industrial Injuries Act of 1946, which became operative in July 1948, the examinations were tak...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Rooke GB

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute care nurse practitioners (ACNPs) are increasingly being employed in ICUs to offset physician shortages, but no data exist about outcomes of critically ill patients continuously cared for by ACNPs. METHODS:Prospective cohort study of all admissions to an adult medical ICU in an academic, tertiary-care ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Landsperger JS,Semler MW,Wang L,Byrne DW,Wheeler AP

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection in patients with bronchiectasis, a chronic airway disease that is characterized by episodes of exacerbation, is associated with more severe disease and a higher utilization of health-care resources. Inhaled tobramycin solution reduces the number of acute exacerbations in ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bilton D,Henig N,Morrissey B,Gotfried M

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with the sick sinus syndrome accompanying mirror-image dextrocardia which was associated with double superior venae cavae and an absent inferior vena cava is presented. A permanent transvenous demand pacemaker was inserted because of repeated episodes of dizziness and a documented 31/2-second period of asyst...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Goyal SL,Lichestein E,Gupta PK,Chadda KD,Lajam F

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tests of overall lung function often reveal abnormalities in elderly smokers, but lung function is less consistently deranged in young smokers. Since airway closure at higher than normal lung volumes is thought to be an early indicator of lung dysfunction in asymptomatic smokers, we used 133xenon to measure regional r...

journal_title：Chest

authors： York EL,Jones RL

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is an immunologic pulmonary disorder caused by hypersensitivity to Aspergillus fumigatus. Clinically, a patient presents with chronic asthma, recurrent pulmonary infiltrates, and bronchiectasis. The population prevalence of ABPA is not clearly known, but the prevalence in...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Agarwal R

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients at risk for sepsis after cardiac surgery, the efficacy of intravenous immunoglobulin (Ig) treatment was compared with a historical control population, equivalent in patient characteristics and disease severity. Using APACHE II scores, especially in the high-risk group (IgG), we could discriminate between l...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pilz G,Kreuzer E,Kääb S,Appel R,Werdan K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To evaluate, through clinical and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) follow-up, the natural history of persistent pericardial effusion (PE) after postoperative day 15 in patients who were given and were not given anticoagulant therapy. DESIGN AND PATIENTS:We retrospectively studied a cohort of 1,277...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Meurin P,Weber H,Renaud N,Larrazet F,Tabet JY,Demolis P,Ben Driss A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We aimed to identify the bronchial response to inhaled methacholine in patients with mitral stenosis (MS) and to clarify whether or not the bronchial hyperreactivity (BHR) is reversible after percutaneous mitral balloon valvulotomy (PBMV). PATIENTS AND SETTING:Thirty patients with MS and 28 age-matched heal...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gülec S,Ertas F,Tutar E,Demirel Y,Karaoguz R,Omurlu K,Oral D

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 60-year-old black woman presented with nonproductive cough of 1-month duration. She had also experienced rapidly progressive dyspnea for 1 week and one bout of vomiting a day before presentation. Her symptoms had failed to improve with a course of amoxicillin-clavulanate. Her medical history was significant for diab...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Panchabhai TS,Bandyopadhyay D,Alraiyes AH,Mehta AC,Almeida FA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied eleven patients during 14 attempts at weaning from mechanical ventilation to determine whether central ventilatory drive, measured as airway occlusion pressure 0.1 s after onset of inspiration (P 0.1), during spontaneous breathing before and during a brief hypercapnic challenge, could accurately predict the...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Montgomery AB,Holle RH,Neagley SR,Pierson DJ,Schoene RB

更新日期：1987-04-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Asymptomatic HIV-infected individuals are increasingly recruited for studies involving invasive procedures such as bronchoscopy. We sought to determine the response to and outcome of a request for a research bronchoscopy in HIV-positive individuals with no respiratory disease, and whether this would ad...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lipman MC,Stobbs D,Madge S,Miller R,Johnson MA

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two patients with histologically proven pulmonary Langerhans' cell histiocytosis in whom radiologic improvement occurred following smoking cessation. The patients had 23- and 25-pack-year smoking histories, respectively. High-resolution CT revealed multiple small nodules, located predominantly in the upper...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mogulkoc N,Veral A,Bishop PW,Bayindir U,Pickering CA,Egan JJ

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00