Malignant thymoma. A complicated triad of SVC syndrome, cardiac tamponade, and DIC.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Altitude-induced pulmonary hypertension has been suggested to cause left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction due to ventricular interaction. In this study, we evaluate the effects of exercise- and altitude-induced increase in pulmonary artery pressures on LV diastolic function in an interventional setting...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bernheim AM,Kiencke S,Fischler M,Dorschner L,Debrunner J,Mairbäurl H,Maggiorini M,Brunner-La Rocca HP

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 12 patients with simultaneous bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax (SBSP). They represent 4 percent of patients with spontaneous pneumothorax seen at our hospital from 1971 to 1990. Five of the 12 had no underlying lung disease. In the seven remaining patients, SBSP was secondary to histiocytosis X, lymphang...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Graf-Deuel E,Knoblauch A

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alterations in metabolic (oxygen consumption [VO2] and carbon dioxide production [VCO2]) and hemodynamic (heart rate and blood pressure) parameters caused by various common intensive care activities were examined in a group of 23 mechanically-ventilated critically-ill patients. The observed variations in metabolic...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Weissman C,Kemper M,Damask MC,Askanazi J,Hyman AI,Kinney JM

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In daily clinical work, we often face delayed or recurrent pneumothorax after radiofrequency (RF) ablation for lung tumors, but a large study on this theme has not been done. Thus, we examined the rate of delayed or recurrent pneumothorax after RF ablation for lung tumors and the risk factors associated with...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Yoshimatsu R,Yamagami T,Terayama K,Matsumoto T,Miura H,Nishimura T

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The natural history of flock worker's lung (FWL) and longitudinal lung function changes in nylon flock-exposed workers have not been well characterized. METHODS:Symptoms, pulmonary function testing, and chest radiographs from five index cases, subsequent case referrals, and screened employees of a flocking ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Turcotte SE,Chee A,Walsh R,Grant FC,Liss GM,Boag A,Forkert L,Munt PW,Lougheed MD

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Autopsy evaluation of tracheobronchomalacia (TBM) in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) who were receiving long-term ventilation through uncuffed tracheostomies. DESIGN:Necropsies were performed in seven patients with DMD who had received positive-pressure ventilation through uncuffed tra...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Baydur A,Kanel G

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old patient named Jahi McMath was determined to be dead by neurologic criteria following cardiopulmonary arrest and resuscitation at a hospital in Oakland, California. Her family did not agree that she was dead and refused to allow her ventilator to be removed. The family's attorney stated in the media that ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Luce JM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the first case of endotracheal rheumatoid nodules in a 45-year-old Chinese man with rheumatoid arthritis. He developed exacerbation of polyarthritis, new subcutaneous nodules and fibrosing alveolitis. At bronchoscopy, four whitish nodules were detected at the tracheal wall, and biopsy showed fibrinoid necr...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ip MS,Wong MP,Wong KL

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low-dose CT scan reduces lung cancer mortality in high-risk patients fit to undergo surgical resection. Racial disparities in resection of lung cancer in nonscreening populations are well described. We describe surgical resection patterns of patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Balekian AA,Wisnivesky JP,Gould MK

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 19-year-old man with untreated systemic lupus erythematosus had an acute myocardial infarction. A coronary arteriogram five hours after the onset of symptoms revealed total occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Reperfusion was achieved by coronary thrombolytic therapy with urokinase. Four weeks ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Takatsu Y,Hattori R,Sakaguchi K,Yui Y,Kawai C

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the effects of a new semisynthetic macrolide antibiotic, roxithromycin, on the bronchial hyperresponsiveness to histamine in children with asthma. Twelve hospitalized asthmatic children, aged 11 to 15 years (mean age, 12.9 years), were enrolled in this study. They were treated with 150 mg of roxithromycin...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Shimizu T,Kato M,Mochizuki H,Tokuyama K,Morikawa A,Kuroume T

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient-focused or patient-centered care is not a new concept, but its value has been overlooked in preference to the technology-based, disease-centered model that has prevailed in medicine for the last 50 years. Patient-focused care includes four broad areas of intervention: communication with patients, partnerships,...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Irwin RS,Richardson ND

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ICU telemedicine improves access to high-quality critical care, has substantial costs, and can change financial outcomes. Detailed information about financial outcomes and their trends over time following ICU telemedicine implementation and after the addition of logistic center function has not been publishe...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lilly CM,Motzkus C,Rincon T,Cody SE,Landry K,Irwin RS,UMass Memorial Critical Care Operations Group.

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer in young patients is increasing in frequency, as documented by data from the United States, Canada, Japan, and European countries. However, to date and to our knowledge, there have not been any reports from Latin America on this topic. The published reports show that lung cancer in young patients is associ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Green LS,Fortoul TI,Ponciano G,Robles C,Rivero O

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditors in Medicare overpayment or False Claims Act (FCA) cases often use statistical extrapolation to estimate a health-care provider's total liability from a small sample of audited claims. Courts treat statistical extrapolation differently depending on the context. They generally afford the government substantial ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Salcido R,Rubin E

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous rtPA (total dose, 100 mg over 3 h) was compared with placebo in a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial in 5,011 patients with suspected AMI of less than 5 h duration. No ECG or enzymatic confirmation of the diagnosis was required for study entry. At 1 month 9.8% of patients given placebo had died co...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wilcox RG

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last 5 years have brought dramatic changes to the care of patients with severe sepsis. While early diagnosis remains a challenge and, regrettably, a rapid, sensitive, and specific diagnostic test is still lacking, the methods to identify those critically ill patients who are likely to die have become clearer. The ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wheeler AP

更新日期：2007-12-01 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:High-resolution chest CT (HRCT) scan is recommended after pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (PAVM) embolotherapy to assess for PAVM persistence and untreated PAVM growth. Graded transthoracic contrast echocardiography (TTCE) predicts the need for embolotherapy in PAVM screening. This study sought to deter...

journal_title：Chest

authors： DePietro DM,Curnes NR,Chittams J,Ferrari VA,Pyeritz RE,Trerotola SO

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:The efficacy of a nasopharyngeal tube was evaluated in 44 patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Twenty-four of these patients underwent repeated polysomnographic studies with the nasopharyngeal tube in place. They had a 62.3 percent decrease in apnea index and a 39.2 percent decrease in disordered breathing ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nahmias JS,Karetzky MS

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following an outline that details the pathogens causing community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) identified in studies from Europe, this article reviews the guidelines for the management of CAP in four European countries--France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The method behind the development of each document is des...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Woodhead M

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (AHRF) can result from diverse lung insults. Toxic oxygen metabolites have been implicated in this clinical condition and in animal models of pulmonary edema. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), an oxygen metabolite, mediates tissue injury. We measured H2O2 levels by a spectrophotometric tech...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sznajder JI,Fraiman A,Hall JB,Sanders W,Schmidt G,Crawford G,Nahum A,Factor P,Wood LD

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Itraconazole is a new orally active antifungal triazole with impressive activity against Aspergillus spp. Six patients with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA), aged 14 to 49 years, were treated with oral itraconazole (200 mg twice daily) for a mean of 3.9 months (range, one to six months; three patients co...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Denning DW,Van Wye JE,Lewiston NJ,Stevens DA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A five-year clinical follow-up and the results of myocardial biopsies are described in a patient with primary restrictive cardiomyopathy. Histologic examination of a right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy taken early in the course of the illness was not contributory. Histologic examination of a left ventricular endom...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Arbustini E,Buonanno C,Trevi G,Pennelli N,Ferrans VJ,Thiene G

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disease-specific patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments are important in assessing the impact of disease and treatment. The Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Symptoms and Impact Questionnaire is the first instrument for quantifying pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) symptoms and impacts developed accord...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Chin KM,Gomberg-Maitland M,Channick RN,Cuttica MJ,Fischer A,Frantz RP,Hunsche E,Kleinman L,McConnell JW,McLaughlin VV,Miller CE,Zamanian RT,Zastrow MS,Badesch DB

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary vascular capacitance (PVC) is reduced in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). In normal lung, PVC is largely a function of vascular compliance. In PAH, increased pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) arises from the arterioles. PVR and PVC share pressure and volume variables. The dependency between...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Newman JH,Brittain EL,Robbins IM,Hemnes AR

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Most experimental studies of orthotopic heart and lung graft failure are complicated by an inability to eliminate the rejection-specific inflammatory mediator from the cardiopulmonary bypass. METHODS:The following model was developed in our laboratory to investigate the feasibility of performing an orthot...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Otaki M,Inoue T,Matsumoto T,Kitayama H,Oku H

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To determine whether African-American race is independently associated with lung disease in scleroderma. DESIGN:Retrospective review. SETTING:University medical center in Baltimore. PATIENTS:One hundred one patients with diffuse cutaneous scleroderma with available serum samples. MEASUREMENTS:Patie...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Greidinger EL,Flaherty KT,White B,Rosen A,Wigley FM,Wise RA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Up-to-date estimates of burden of diseases are required for evidence-based decision-making. The objectives of this study were to determine the excess costs of COPD and its trend from 2001 to 2010 in British Columbia, Canada. METHODS:We used British Columbia's administrative health data to construct a cohort...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Khakban A,Sin DD,FitzGerald JM,Ng R,Zafarí Z,McManus B,Hollander Z,Marra CA,Sadatsafavi M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00