Nonfebrile mitral valve endocarditis due to Neisseria subflava.

abstract：:Patients with HES and pulmonary infiltrates may pose certain diagnostic problems as the infiltrates may be attributed to infection, infarction, congestive heart failure, or HES itself. We report an 87-year-old woman with idiopathic HES presenting with bibasal alveolar infiltrates. Differential cell count in BAL fluid ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Slabbynck H,Impens N,Naegels S,Dewaele M,Schandevyl W

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Analysis of laryngotracheoscopic findings of the upper airway tract following percutaneous tracheostomy using the technique according to Griggs. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study PATIENTS:Nineteen of 32 long-term surviving patients (mean follow-up duration, 17 months; range, 11 to 23 months) underwent a mod...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Dollner R,Verch M,Schweiger P,Deluigi C,Graf B,Wallner F

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary torsion is very rare, and usually occurs following lung resection. We report a case of spontaneous middle lobe torsion in a patient presenting with a right pleural effusion. The condition was treated by lobectomy through a totally thoracoscopic approach. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Raynaud C,Lenoir S,Caliandro R,Raffenne L,Validire P,Gossot D

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Central venous pressure (CVP) is used almost universally to guide fluid therapy in hospitalized patients. Both historical and recent data suggest that this approach may be flawed. OBJECTIVE:A systematic review of the literature to determine the following: (1) the relationship between CVP and blood volume, (...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Marik PE,Baram M,Vahid B

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung cancer screening (LCS) is an important secondary prevention measure to reduce lung cancer mortality. The goal of this study was to assess state-level variations in LCS among the US elderly during the first 3 years since Medicare began its LCS reimbursement policy in 2015. METHODS:This ecological study ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Liu B,Dharmarajan K,Henschke CI,Taioli E

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer rates and mortality have risen in epidemic proportions in the United States and other industrialized nations during the 20th century. Case-control and cohort studies performed in the 1950s and 1960s firmly established cigarette smoking as the single greatest risk factor for lung cancer. In the United State...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Samet JM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three sets of guidelines for the management of COPD that are widely recognized (from the European Respiratory Society [ERS], American Thoracic Society [ATS], and British Thoracic Society [BTS]) are reviewed and compared. None of the documents uses classic evidence-based documentation, and, in many instances, the recom...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ferguson GT

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ)-induced pulmonary disease has been described as either an allergic interstitial pneumonitis or a cause of noncardiogenic pulmonary edema. The mechanism of this rare life-threatening side effect is largely unknown. Many patients show peripheral leukopenia and extensive immunologic studies rev...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Darwish OS,Criley J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An asymptomatic young man presented with a cardiac murmur and hypertension only in the right arm. Angiograms showed kinking of the aortic arch with a figure-eight appearance consistent with pseudocoarctation. Before the kinked segment, also demonstrated were a stenotic lesion in the aortic arch proximal to the left ca...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tsai LM,Fu M,Chang CH,Hung JS

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glutathione S-transferase (GST) genes are involved in the management of oxidative stress in the lungs. We aimed to determine whether they modify the associations between early life smoke exposure and adverse lung health outcomes. METHODS:The Melbourne Atopy Cohort study (a high-risk birth cohort) enrolled 6...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Dai X,Dharmage SC,Bowatte G,Waidyatillake NT,Perret JL,Hui J,Erbas B,Abramson MJ,Lowe AJ,Burgess JA,Svanes C,Lodge CJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of tobacco industry responsibility for population health problems and compensation for their treatment has been growing since the 1960s. In 1999, the state attorneys general collectively launched the largest class action lawsuit in US history and sued the tobacco industry to recover the costs of caring for s...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Jones WJ,Silvestri GA

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been no published reports of pneumopericardium complicating laparoscopy. Following an apparently uncomplicated laparoscopy, a 35-year-old woman developed pneumopericardium associated with subcutaneous emphysema of the neck. This resolved without specific therapy and without sequelae. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nicholson RD,Berman ND

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous echo contrast is uncommon in pericardial effusion. We report the case of a patient with massive malignant pericardial effusion causing cardiac tamponade in which the intense spontaneous echo contrast was found in the effusion by echocardiography. It was suggested that both the heavy blood content and a lar...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Shyu KG,Cheng JJ,Kuan P,Lien WP

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Morbid obesity produces a variety of ECG alterations, including leftward shifts of the P-wave, QRS, and T-wave axes; disproportionately high frequencies of low QRS voltage; left ventricular hypertrophy and left atrial abnormality; and a high frequency of T-wave flattening in the inferior and lateral leads. T...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Alpert MA,Terry BE,Hamm CR,Fan TM,Cohen MV,Massey CV,Painter JA

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the actual mortality and morbidity of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) have been unknown heretofore, we undertook a follow-up study of 198 OSAS patients seen at the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic between 1972 and 1980, for whom either tracheostomy (71 patients) or weight loss (127 patients) had been recomme...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Partinen M,Jamieson A,Guilleminault C

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the case reported, a patient with severe right ventricular failure following coronary revascularization was successfully weaned from cardiopulmonary bypass following creation of an atrial septal defect. This technique facilitated rapid decompression of the failing right ventricle by shunting blood to the more compl...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Swanson MJ,Fabaz AG,Jung JY

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To describe four patients having total anomalous pulmonary venous connection with an intrapulmonary vertical vein, rendering difficulty in diagnosis and surgery. SETTING:a tertiary referral center. PATIENTS AND METHODS:By reviewing medical records, 4 of 25 patients with right atrial isomerism and tot...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wang JK,Chiu IS,How SW,Wu MH,Wu FF,Hung CR,Lue HC

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemistry has come to occupy a key position among the armamentarium of tools pathologists apply to the evaluation of lung and pleural neoplasms. This technique uses antibodies that bind to specific antigens, usually proteins, enabling microscopic detection of the antigens. Over the last several decades, an ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mani H,Zander DS

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-eight high-risk patients (forced expiratory volume in one second [FEV1] less than 2.0L or maximum voluntary ventilation [MVV] less than 50 per cent of predicted) were observed for a minimum of one year after pneumonectomy for carcinoma of the lung. Operability was assessed by calculating a predicted postoperati...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Boysen PG,Harris JO,Block AJ,Olsen GN

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the methodology for the Seventh American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy: Evidence-Based Guidelines. Guideline authors began by specifying the population, the intervention and alternative, and the outcomes for each clinical question, and d...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Schünemann HJ,Munger H,Brower S,O'Donnell M,Crowther M,Cook D,Guyatt G

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advisability of prolonged oral or nasotracheal intubation is of continuing concern to physicians caring for patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilatory assistance. Currently, in many health care centers, prolonged intubation is defined as being in excess of seven days. We treated a patient who required mec...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Vogelhut MM,Downs JB

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During most of the cruise, submarines are detached from their environment. Therefore, O(2) levels are relatively low (19 kPa, 144 mm Hg) and CO(2) levels are high (1 kPa, 7.6 mm Hg). There are, however, periods during ventilation of the submarine in which CO(2) levels drop and O(2) levels increase. The objec...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Margel D,White DP,Pillar G

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 26-year-old woman presented with abnormal findings on a chest radiograph. She had no significant history other than a fever 4 months prior to presentation that had resolved without a definite cause identified. She denied cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, history of smoking, environmental exposures, or prior pr...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Albores J,Smith MI

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) is being evaluated in the treatment of emphysema. The proposed mechanisms of improvement are increased elastic recoil of the lung and improved mechanical efficiency of the muscles of respiration. We report a unique patient with emphysema who developed a giant bulla 3 years subseque...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Iqbal M,Rossoff L,McKeon K,Graver M,Scharf SM

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-eight elderly patients with uncomplicated mild essential hypertension entered two drug regimens. In group 1, clonidine monotherapy (n = 15), clonidine was titrated to achieve goal blood pressure (less than 90 mm Hg diastolic) in dosages of 0.05 mg twice daily to 0.2 mg three times daily. Blood pressure decreased...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Thananopavarn C,Golub MS,Sambhi MP

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is conflicting and incomplete information in the literature on the pulmonary reaction which can occur following treatment of schistosomiasis. We examined the pulmonary function, bronchoalveolar lavage profile, and lung histopathology of a patient with pneumonia and peripheral eosinophilia following oxaminquine c...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Davidson BL,el-Kassimi F,Uz-Zaman A,Pillai DK

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angiogenesis is a prerequisite for airway remodeling in bronchial asthma. Several factors may play important roles in inflammation and angiogenesis through effects on inflammatory cell infiltration or neovascularization. OBJECTIVES:(1) To determine the levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Abdel-Rahman AM,el-Sahrigy SA,Bakr SI

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung scans with technetium sulfur colloid were performed in ten patients with life-threatening hemoptysis and nondiagnostic chest roentgenograms. Localized deposition of radionuclide was demonstrated in five of the six patients who were studied during active bleeding. These abnormalities were confirmed bronchoscopical...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Haponik EF,Rothfeld B,Britt EJ,Bleecker ER

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To assess the effectiveness of pulse oximetry and radioisotope measurement of right-to-left (R-L) shunt for the early detection of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT). DESIGN:Patients with HHT had serial measurements of the followi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Thompson RD,Jackson J,Peters AM,Doré CJ,Hughes JM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：SETTING:Seven primary health clinics and a pulmonary disease specialty clinic in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate a commercial immunochromatographic test kit (ICT Tuberculosis; AMRAD-ICT; Sidney, Australia) employing five recombinant Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins for the detection of pulmonary ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Perkins MD,Conde MB,Martins M,Kritski AL

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00