Thoracic outlet syndrome mimicking angina pectoris with elevated creatine phosphokinase values.

abstract：:Until recently, a definitive diagnosis of lipoma in the thorax could only be established by thoracotomy. We undertook this study to determine if chest CT could provide such an answer. Among 4,000 chest CT scans, six patients were found to have lipoma according to the following selected criteria: CT features of a pleur...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Epler GR,McLoud TC,Munn CS,Colby TV

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes three cases of massive mobile right heart thrombus and reviews the available literature to better define the pathophysiology, natural history and most appropriate therapy of the syndrome. The clinical presentation of most patients has been severe cardiopulmonary dysfunction and the diagnosis has ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Crowell RH,Adams GS,Koilpillai CJ,McNutt EJ,Montague TJ

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:COPD includes the chronic bronchitis (CB) and emphysema phenotypes. Although it is generally assumed that emphysema or chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) is associated with worse quality of life (QOL) than is CB, this assumption has not been tested. METHODS:The current study's analyses from the Lovelace Smok...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Meek PM,Petersen H,Washko GR,Diaz AA,Klm V,Sood A,Tesfaigzi Y

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical practice guidelines recommend enteral over parenteral nutrition in critical illness and do not recommend early initiation. Few data are available on parenteral nutrition use or timing of initiation in the ICU or how this use may have changed over time. METHODS:We used the Project IMPACT database to...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gershengorn HB,Kahn JM,Wunsch H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiorespiratory values were measured in ten patients with severe respiratory failure on volume controlled and pressure controlled ventilation. Tidal volume, respirator rate, PEEP, auto-PEEP, inspiratory:expiratory ratio (1:2) and FIo2 were maintained at the same value for both ventilatory modalities. Changing from V...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Abraham E,Yoshihara G

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Congenital airway malacia is one of the few causes of irreversible airways obstruction in children, but the incidence in the general population is unknown. Severe airway malacia or malacia associated with specific syndromes is usually recognized and diagnosed early in infancy, but information about clinical f...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Boogaard R,Huijsmans SH,Pijnenburg MW,Tiddens HA,de Jongste JC,Merkus PJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchopulmonary endometriosis is a rare cause of hemoptysis. We describe a woman with catamenial hemoptysis which was localized with chest CAT scanning and treated successfully with danazol. The proposed pathogenesis and manifestations of thoracic endometriosis are reviewed, and the use of new diagnostic and therapeu...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Elliot DL,Barker AF,Dixon LM

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the systemic and coronary hemodynamic changes associated with the administration of diltiazem, a recent calcium antagonist, were evaluated in three different situations as follows: following a 200 microgram/kg intravenous bolus of the drug in 12 open-chest anesthetized dogs; following two successive int...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bourassa MG,Cote P,Theroux P,Tubau JF,Genain C,Waters DD

更新日期：1980-07-01 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：:To assess the clinical correlates and therapeutic outcome of new postoperative supraventricular tachyarrhythmias, 916 patients who were in sinus rhythm throughout the course of surgery were prospectively followed after major noncardiac surgery. The 35 patients (4 percent) who developed new postoperative supraventricul...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Goldman L

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:We assessed early and long-term pulmonary function changes after percutaneous balloon mitral valvotomy (PBMV). METHODS AND RESULTS:Mitral area, lung function, and exercise capacity were evaluated before, immediately after, and 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months after successful PBMV in 24 patients. PBMV resulted i...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gómez-Hospital JA,Cequier A,Romero PV,Cañete C,Ugartemendia C,Iràculis E,Esplugas E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interest in airways inflammatory disease has increasingly focused on innate immunity. We investigated several components of innate immunity in induced sputum of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), COPD, and asthma, and healthy control subjects. METHODS:Twenty eight patients with mild CF lung disease (age > ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Xiao W,Hsu YP,Ishizaka A,Kirikae T,Moss RB

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Failure to reliably diagnose ARDS may be a major driver of negative clinical trials and underrecognition and treatment in clinical practice. We sought to examine the interobserver reliability of the Berlin ARDS definition and examine strategies for improving the reliability of ARDS diagnosis. METHODS:Two hu...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sjoding MW,Hofer TP,Co I,Courey A,Cooke CR,Iwashyna TJ

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory pattern during wakefulness and sleep was characterized in a 70-year-old woman with respiratory dyskinesia. During wakefulness, both respiratory frequency and tidal volume exhibited an irregularly irregular pattern. In addition, wide fluctuations occurred in the position of the rib cage and abdomen at e...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kuna ST,Awan R

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newborn infant with severe respiratory distress from bilateral diaphragmatic paralysis caused by birth injury was successfully treated with nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Improvement gradually occurred, and CPAP was discontinued after he was 23 days of age. This therapy has advantages over alterna...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Zajkowski EJ,Kravath RE

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with ulcerative colitis had extensive upper zone pulmonary disease while taking sulfasalazine. Pulmonary function tests showed progressive restrictive and obstructive disease. Lung biopsy showed bronchiolitis obliterans and chronic interstitial pneumonia or fibrosing alveolitis with a mild eosinophilic infil...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Williams T,Eidus L,Thomas P

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role of inhaled ipratropium bromide in acute asthma, a double-blind study of 384 emergency department patients compared the effect of the combination of ipratropium and albuterol with that of albuterol alone. Patients were randomized to receive nebulizer treatments with either 2.5 mg of albuterol or 2....

journal_title：Chest

authors： Karpel JP,Schacter EN,Fanta C,Levey D,Spiro P,Aldrich T,Menjoge SS,Witek TJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac toxicity is a major complication which limits the use of adriamycin as a chemotherapeutic agent. Cardiomyopathy is frequent when the total dose exceeds 600 mg/m2 and occurs within one to six months after cessation of therapy. A patient is reported who developed progressive cardiomyopathy two and one-half years...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gottlieb SL,Edmiston WA Jr,Haywood LJ

更新日期：1980-12-01 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：:Hemodynamic and oxygen transport effects of PGE1 were observed in the early postoperative period before development of ARDS in two series of general surgical patients with circulatory deficiencies. The first was a series of 19 studies in 18 patients, the second was a placebo-controlled series of 20 patients (ten recei...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Appel PL,Shoemaker WC,Kram HB

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asthma and rhinosinusitis are common medical conditions among adults. Alternative treatments could have important impacts on health status among those individuals with these conditions, but specific prevalence data for these treatments are limited. OBJECTIVE:To estimate the prevalence of specific alternativ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Blanc PD,Trupin L,Earnest G,Katz PP,Yelin EH,Eisner MD

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Although percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is known to have beneficial effects on exercise capacity, its effects on the cardiovascular response during the onset of exercise have not been clarified. The present study was undertaken to determine the effects of PTCA on the kinetics of ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Adachi H,Koike A,Niwa A,Sato A,Takamoto T,Marumo F,Hiroe M

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postural drainage has usually been shown to be an effective component of chest physical therapy; there is currently no data showing a beneficial effect of percussion or vibration; directed coughing may be as efficacious as postural drainage (Table 3); the forced expiration technique may increase sputum clearance with ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kirilloff LH,Owens GR,Rogers RM,Mazzocco MC

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To examine the effect of patient body mass index (BMI) on outcome in intensive care. DESIGN:In a prospective study, the patients were classified into groups based on the calculated BMI, as follows: BMI < 19.0 (n = 350), > or = 19.0 and < 25.0 (n = 663), > or = 25.0 and < 29.9 (n = 585), > or = 30.0 an...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ray DE,Matchett SC,Baker K,Wasser T,Young MJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Traditional diagnostic tests for pericardial tuberculosis (TB) are insensitive and often require long culture periods, and this has led to more emphasis being placed on biochemical tests such as the pericardial adenosine deaminase (ADA) test. However, controversy exists as to its diagnostic utility. In addit...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Burgess LJ,Reuter H,Carstens ME,Taljaard JJ,Doubell AF

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low-density gas mixtures and oxygen (O₂) supplementation are known to improve physical performance and ventilatory adaptation during incremental maximal exercise in COPD. We investigated whether their combined use during intense physical training is also effective in ameliorating exercise tolerance in patien...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Scorsone D,Bartolini S,Saporiti R,Braido F,Baroffio M,Pellegrino R,Brusasco V,Crimi E

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous measurement of mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO2) has been suggested as an adjunct in monitoring critically ill patients. We evaluated SvO2 monitoring in 24 patients suffering from complicated myocardial infarctions. Cardiac output and arterial lactate levels were measured when there were persistent 5 pe...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kyff JV,Vaughn S,Yang SC,Raheja R,Puri VK

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a devastating disease, yet validated, reliable criteria for evaluating patient response to therapies in clinical trials are lacking. METHODS:To optimize selection of end point criteria for the study of interferon (IFN)-gamma1b in patients with IPF, we retrospectively a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： King TE Jr,Safrin S,Starko KM,Brown KK,Noble PW,Raghu G,Schwartz DA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study are as follows: (1) to determine the incidence of complications from thoracentesis performed under ultrasound guidance by interventional radiologists in a tertiary referral teaching hospital; (2) to evaluate the incidence of vasovagal events without the use of atropine prio...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Jones PW,Moyers JP,Rogers JT,Rodriguez RM,Lee YC,Light RW

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to determine if a small pneumothorax would influence the pleurodesis resulting from talc instillation. METHODS:Sixty rabbits received an intrapleural injection of 400 mg/kg talc slurry. One half also received 10 mL of air intrapleurally after the talc. Ten rabbits in each group ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Xie C,Teixeira LR,McGovern JP,Light RW

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00