Changes in cerebral oxygenation and hemodynamics during obstructive sleep apneas.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To measure the prevalence of exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB) and to determine its effect on the physical performance response to training in otherwise healthy young adults. DESIGN:Observational, retrospective study. SETTING:Fort Jackson, SC, May to July 1998. PARTICIPANTS:One hundred thirty-seve...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sonna LA,Angel KC,Sharp MA,Knapik JJ,Patton JF,Lilly CM

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether sectional development in pulmonary and critical care medicine influences medical house officers' (HO) interests and knowledge about respiratory medicine, we reviewed HO performance on the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certifying examination during 4 years before and 5 years after reor...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Haponik EF,Bowton DL,Chin R Jr,Adair NE,Lykens MG,Alford PT,Bass DA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) has been known to be associated with health and cognitive impacts for more than a century, and yet our understanding of this disorder is in its infancy. Neuropsychological consequences in children with snoring or subtle breathing disturbances not meeting the traditional defin...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Halbower AC,Ishman SL,McGinley BM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We sought to determine the efficacy and safety of perioperative treatment with methylprednisolone on the development of lung injury after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. METHODS:This was a randomized, prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 98 adult patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmo...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kerr KM,Auger WR,Marsh JJ,Devendra G,Spragg RG,Kim NH,Channick RN,Jamieson SW,Madani MM,Manecke GR,Roth DM,Shragg GP,Fedullo PF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in the United States. Cigarette smoking is the main risk factor. Former smokers are at a substantially increased risk for lung cancer compared with lifetime never-smokers. Chemoprevention is the use of specific agents to reverse, suppress, or prevent the p...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gray J,Mao JT,Szabo E,Kelley M,Kurie J,Bepler G,American College of Chest Physicians.

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of a new tissue-culture technique for the diagnosis of malignant pleural effusions was contrasted with conventional cytologic methods. The new technique is based on the ability of the tissue-culture medium to transform mesothelial cells into fibroblasts while not sustaining lymphoreticular cells. Against ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Monif GR,Stewart BN,Block AJ

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transbronchial fine needle aspiration (TBFNA) was used to confirm the diagnosis of bronchogenic cyst in two asymptomatic patients with mediastinal masses who declined surgical exploration. Both masses were located subcarinally but differed in computed tomographic density (7 and 59 Hounsfield units). Aspirate cytology ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Schwartz DB,Beals TF,Wimbish KJ,Hammersley JR

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 56-year-old man with a longstanding tracheostomy presented to the hospital with upper GI bleeding and was found to have a profound respiratory alkalosis. The cause of this patient's involuntary hyperventilation was hiccuping complicated by the absence of glottic closure. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Campbell LA,Schwartz SH

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several cross-sectional and short-term studies suggest that patient-reported outcomes (PROs) may be useful to help predict COPD exacerbations, but evidence from long-term prospective cohort studies is lacking. Our aim was to assess if PROs add to the prediction of exacerbations. METHODS:Four hundred eight p...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Strassmann A,Frei A,Haile SR,Ter Riet G,Puhan MA

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Every country has finite resources that are expended to provide citizens with social "goods," including education, protection, infrastructure, and health care. Rationing-of any resource-refers to distribution of an allotted amount and may involve withholding some goods that would benefit some citizens. Health-care rat...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Evans TW,Nava S,Mata GV,Guidet B,Estenssoro E,Fowler R,Scheunemann LP,White D,Manthous CA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive surgery for all of the mechanical complications of ischemic heart disease is feasible with early diagnosis, catheterization, and aggressive medical and surgical therapy. A patient is report who, after recovering from cardiogenic shock, required a coronary bypass, closure of ventricular septal defects, mitral...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lemole GM,Perez J,Strong MD,McDonough MT

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is now a new pathway and examination for sleep medicine, sponsored by the American Board of Internal Medicine, and a number of accredited sleep medicine fellowship programs through the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. This review takes an historical approach to discuss the process of educati...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Strohl KP

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ventilatory effects of a bolus intravenous dose of doxapram (0.37 to 0.47 mg/kg) were studied in ten healthy normal subjects. An immediate significant (p less than 0.001) increase in minute ventilation (VE) was due, in equal part, to significant increases in tidal volume (VT) and frequency (f). The inspiratory (TI...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Burki NK

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) is a serious pulmonary vascular disease occurring mostly in adult women. Although its occurrence in families was reported within a few years after the original clinical report, PPH was formerly believed rarely to have a genetic basis. Recent progress has not only clarified a basic ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Loyd JE

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-eight children with known asthma (ranging in age from 2 to 16 years) were studied during an acute attack. Each received either terbutaline or epinephrine subcutaneously in a random double-blind fashion. Measurement of heart rate, respiratory rate, and systemic arterial systolic and diastolic blood pressures and ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Davis WJ,Pang LM,Chernack WJ,Mellins RB

更新日期：1977-11-01 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：:As an aid in the differential diagnosis of exudative pleural effusions, tumor markers were investigated. We measured immunosuppressive acidic protein (IAP), carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9), tissue polypeptide antigen (TPA), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), adenosine deaminase (ADA), and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (A...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Niwa Y,Kishimoto H,Shimokata K

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for fiberoptic bronchoscopy in the patient with hemoptysis and a normal or nonlocalizing chest roentgenogram remains a subject of debate. Currently, diagnostic fiberoptic bronchoscopy is recommended as the investigative procedure of choice. To develop predictors that identify the patient in whom fiberoptic br...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Poe RH,Israel RH,Marin MG,Ortiz CR,Dale RC,Wahl GW,Kallay MC,Greenblatt DG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of community-acquired pneumonia in Hong Kong was carried out between January and December, 1988. Ninety adults (57 male) with a mean age of 57.3 years were admitted to the Prince of Wales Hospital with community-acquired pneumonia. The etiologic diagnosis of pneumonia was made in 37 cases (41 perce...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Chan CH,Cohen M,Pang J

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty patients with atrial fibrillation and 20 patients with congestive heart failure and sinus rhythm were studied. Patients were divided into two groups. Group A consisted of 20 patients with atrial fibrillation in whom systolic time intervals were measured. Twenty to 50 beats were analyzed. Five of the patients had...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Boudoulas H,Lewis RP,Sherman JA,Bush CA,Dalamangas G,Forester WF

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The impact of sleep apnea on work disability, in terms of sickness absence and disability pension, is unclear. We sought to estimate the total number of lost workdays caused by sleep apnea either due to medically certified sickness absences or disability pensions during the 5 years prior to the year of a sle...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sjösten N,Vahtera J,Salo P,Oksanen T,Saaresranta T,Virtanen M,Pentti J,Kivimäki M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Stenosis and occlusion rates of internal mammary artery (IMA) and saphenous vein (SV) coronary artery bypass grafts (CABGs) are markedly different, which result from respective disparities in vascular remodeling. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) regulate vascu...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Anstadt MP,Franga DL,Portik-Dobos V,Pennathur A,Bannan M,Mawulawde K,Ergul A

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two patients who develop torsades de pointes in a temporal relationship to the intravenous administration of erythromycin lactobionate in the absence of other drugs or metabolic abnormalities known to cause the arrhythmia. We also review the current literature regarding this topic, including other case his...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gitler B,Berger LS,Buffa SD

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous meta-analyses of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)-specific therapy for PAH pooled PAH-specific combination therapy and monotherapy. This flaw may threaten the authenticity of their findings. METHODS:PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library were searched for randomized controlled trials that ev...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Liu HL,Chen XY,Li JR,Su SW,Ding T,Shi CX,Jiang YF,Zhu ZN

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing clinical, radiologic, and pathologic recognition of the coexistence of emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis in the same patient, resulting in a clinical syndrome known as combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) that is characterized by dyspnea, upper-lobe emphysema, lower-lobe fibrosis, and ab...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Jankowich MD,Rounds SIS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many patients with central airway obstruction due to extrinsic compression or malacia, insertion of tracheobronchial stents can provide effective and permanent relief. Of the various types of prostheses described, the silicone Dumon-Artemis stents (Medicore, Brussels, Belgium) are probably the most efficient. The u...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Noppen M,Dhondt E,Meysman M,Monsieur I,Gepts E,Vincken WG

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The new GOLD (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease) strategy recommends use of the COPD Assessment Test (CAT) or modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) scale to assess symptoms in COPD against "risk" as assessed by spirometry or exacerbation frequency. We aimed to determine the concordanc...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pillai AP,Turner AM,Stockley RA

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:Myocardial ischemia results in altered left ventricular (LV) diastolic compliance, reflected by an abnormal mitral inflow pattern on Doppler echocardiography. To investigate the relationship of Doppler echocardiography and regional myocardial systolic function during dipyridamole infusion, we evaluated transmitral flo...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lattanzi F,Picano E,Masini M,De Prisco F,Distante A,L'Abbate A

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Managed care, both via staff model health maintenance plans and nonstaff model plans, has become a major source of health-care funding in the United States. However, very little is known about the asthma-specific products and services offered by these plans. The purpose of this study is to examine the asth...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nelson SG,Grant EN,Trubitt MJ,Foggs MB,Weiss KB

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00