Recombinant interferon alpha-2b in the management of malignant pleural effusions.

abstract：:Esophageal malposition is a potentially disastrous complication of attempted airway intubation. We report an unusual case in which a promptly recognized esophageal intubation aided detection of a perforated gastric ulcer. After the endotracheal tube was repositioned and the ulcer was surgically repaired, our patient h...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Dunham D,Schmidt GA

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery fistulas have been traditionally diagnosed by angiography. This report describes a congenital and a traumatic coronary artery fistula diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography. Transesophageal echocardiography was superior to transthoracic echocardiography in both cases and to angiography in one ca...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Prewitt KC,Smolin MR,Coster TS,Vernalis MN,Bunda M,Wortham DC

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retractions of the lower ribcage (chest wall distortion [CWD]) during inspiration are frequently observed with moderate to severe respiratory disease in the infant. Laryngotracheobronchitis (LTB) results in a reversible partial airway obstruction with severe CWD. We wished to measure the motion of the chest wall durin...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Davis GM,Cooper DM,Mitchell I

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:COPD is a heterogeneous disease demonstrating inter-individual variation. A high COPD prevalence in Chinese populations is described, but little is known about disease clusters and prognostic outcomes in the Chinese population across Southeast Asia. We aim to determine if clusters of Chinese patients with CO...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tiew PY,Ko FWS,Narayana JK,Poh ME,Xu H,Neo HY,Loh LC,Ong CK,Mac Aogáin M,Tan JHY,Kamaruddin NH,Sim GJH,Lapperre TS,Koh MS,Hui DSC,Abisheganaden JA,Tee A,Tsaneva-Atanasova K,Chotirmall SH

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We analyze the within-subject variation of mouth occlusion pressure (P0.1) response to progressive isocapnic hypoxic stimulation over long time periods in normal subjects. PATIENTS AND INTERVENTIONS:We studied 21 healthy subjects (14 male and 7 female; aged 40+/-12 yrs) (mean+/-SD). Lung volumes, basal...

journal_title：Chest

authors： García-Río F,Pino-García JM,Racionero MA,Terreros-Caro JG,Gómez-Mendieta MA,Prados C,Villasante C

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interferon-γ release assays (IGRAs) have been incorporated into several national guidelines for latent TB infection (LTBI) diagnosis. However, their optimal application is still controversial and evolving. The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of confirmatory IGRAs in addition to tuberculin sk...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Song S,Jeon D,Kim JW,Kim YD,Kim SP,Cho JS,Lee SE,Cho WH,Park HK,Kim YS,Lee MK,Lee JH

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the acute effects of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) in patients with stable chronic respiratory failure secondary to cystic fibrosis. PATIENTS:Eight patients (29+/-5 years of age) with severe airflow limitation (mean FEV1, 24+/-3% predicted) and chronic respiratory failure (PaO2...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Granton JT,Kesten S

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro cell-mediated immunity was examined in patients infected with nontuberculous mycobacteria, Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex in Japan. Peripheral blood lymphocytes of patients, as compared with those of tuberculous patients or tuberculin-positive healthy donors, showed depressed in vitro blastogenic ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tsuyuguchi I,Shiratsuchi H,Okuda Y,Yamamoto Y

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The definition of a standard therapy for resectable esophageal cancer remains a clinical controversy. In the past decade, a variety of strategies have been developed in an attempt to improve local control and decrease the all too common problem of distant metastases. Preoperative treatment with radiotherapy or chemoth...

journal_title：Chest

authors： DeCamp MM Jr,Swanson SJ,Jaklitsch MT

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Women who smoke have a higher rate of fatal breast cancer than nonsmoking women. An association between smoking and pulmonary metastases from breast cancer has been suggested by epidemiologic studies. STUDY OBJECTIVES:To examine the relationship between exposure to cigarette smoke and pulmonary metastasis...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Murin S,Pinkerton KE,Hubbard NE,Erickson K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The World Trade Center (WTC) collapse on September 11, 2001, produced airflow obstruction in a majority of firefighters receiving subspecialty pulmonary evaluation (SPE) within 6.5 years post-September 11, 2001. METHODS:In a cohort of 801 never smokers with normal pre-September 11, 2001, FEV1, we correlated...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nolan A,Naveed B,Comfort AL,Ferrier N,Hall CB,Kwon S,Kasturiarachchi KJ,Cohen HW,Zeig-Owens R,Glaser MS,Webber MP,Aldrich TK,Rom WN,Kelly K,Prezant DJ,Weiden MD

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To compare drug output from a vented nebulizer (Pari LC Jet Plus) with a traditional unvented nebulizer (Hudson 1730 T Up-Draft 11) using aerosolized tobramycin, which is frequently used in the treatment of cystic fibrosis. DESIGN:Six nebulizers of each type were filled with a 4 mL tobramycin (80 mg) s...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Coates AL,MacNeish CF,Lands LC,Meisner D,Kelemen S,Vadas EB

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the effects of the autonomic nervous system on control of breathing, the neuromuscular (mouth occlusion pressure at 0.1 s after onset of inspiration [P0.1]) and ventilatory (minute ventilation [VE]) response to progressive hyperoxic hypercapnia was assessed in diabetic patients with autonomic dysfunctio...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tantucci C,Scionti L,Bottini P,Dottorini ML,Puxeddu E,Casucci G,Sorbini CA

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While isolating the pulmonary arterial branches within the fissure is a crucial step in lobectomy, a largely fused fissure usually hinders its achievement, making lobectomy with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) difficult to achieve. For VATS lobectomy in lung cancer patients with a largely fused f...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nomori H,Ohtsuka T,Horio H,Naruke T,Suemasu K

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac and pulmonary disease are so closely interrelated that it is often difficult to determine in young infants which is the primary offender. As illustrated in these case reports, failure to recognize the true nature of the disease process may lead to unnecessary procedures and delays which can be life-threatening...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Moss AJ,McDonald LV

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortic valve atresia is usually associated with hypoplasia of the left ventricle and mitral valve. We report a patient presenting aortic atresia with ventricular septal defect and a normally sized left ventricle. The electrocardiogram showed left axis deviation and left ventricular hypertrophy. The ventricular septal ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pellegrino PA,Thiene G

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preoperative evaluation of patients being considered for pulmonary resection is a common practice for both pulmonologists and internists. Traditionally, preoperative evaluation of this population has entailed identifying patients in whom pulmonary resection carries an unacceptably high risk of morbidity and mortality....

journal_title：Chest

authors： Reilly JJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this phase 1 study was to determine the toxicity and effectiveness of recombinant interleukin-2 (RU 49637 Roussel Uclaf-France) administered by continuous pleural infusion for 5 days to patients with different histologic subtypes of pleural cancer. Incremental doses of rIL-2 from 3 x 10(6) to 24 x 10(6)...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Astoul P,Viallat JR,Laurent JC,Brandely M,Boutin C

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 48-year-old man with unipolar depression and a psychosexual problem concerning his body image was injecting his scrotum repeatedly with olive oil to increase the size of his genitals. He developed respiratory failure following accidental intravenous injection of olive oil and was found to have lipogranulomatous lesi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bhagat R,Holmes IH,Kulaga A,Murphy F,Cockcroft DW

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liposarcoma is rare in children and rarely occurs in the posterior mediastinum in any age group. A massive intrathoracic tumor in a 17-year-old young man was a diagnostic dilemma; preoperative radiographic evaluation and biopsy led us to believe it was a teratoma. At operation, a poorly differentiated myxoid liposarco...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mikkilineni RS,Bhat S,Cheng AW,Prevosti LG

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of disseminated histoplasmosis followed later by disseminated coccidioidomycosis is described. The clinical illness and immunologic studies suggest subtle defects that may have existed antecedent to infection and, thus, provided an opportunity for widespread dissemination by these normally nonopportunistic orga...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kaplan P,Graybill JR,Thor D

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our current understanding of the pathogenesis of sepsis suggests that bacteria as well as bacterial-derived products activate an uncontrolled network of host-derived mediators such as proinflammatory cytokines (ie, tumor necrosis factor [TNF] and interleukin [IL]-1beta), which can ultimately lead to cardiovascular col...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Knuefermann P,Nemoto S,Baumgarten G,Misra A,Sivasubramanian N,Carabello BA,Vallejo JG

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a patient in whom pericardial effusion, two months after coronary bypass surgery, mimicked the presence of a left atrial mass on both echocardiography and cardiac angiography. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Steffenino G,Ferrero G,Forni B,Giustetto C,Ottino G,Conte M

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To assess exercise tolerance and determine the distinct role of cardiac, respiratory, or peripheral factors on it after delayed surgical repair in patients with tetralogy of Fallot. DESIGN:The aerobic exercise capacity of 15 adult patients (mean [+/- SD] age, 21 +/- 6; age range, 9 to 30 years) underg...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ercisli M,Vural KM,Gokkaya KN,Koseoglu F,Tufekcioglu O,Sener E,Tasdemir O

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY AIMS:To examine the influence of atmospheric pressure (AP) and temperature changes on the incidence of idiopathic spontaneous pneumothorax (SP). METHODS:From December 1991 through November 1993, 115 consecutive SP cases were selected. Patients were included after being in Amsterdam at least 1 full day before con...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Smit HJ,Devillé WL,Schramel FM,Schreurs JM,Sutedja TG,Postmus PE

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Evaluation of the effectiveness of negative-pressure ventilation (NPV) with the use of the iron lung vs noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NIPPV) in the treatment of COPD patients with acute on chronic respiratory failure. DESIGN:A retrospective case-control study. SETTING:Four Italian respir...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Corrado A,Confalonieri M,Marchese S,Mollica C,Villella G,Gorini M,Della Porta R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cytochrome P-450 2J2 (CYP2J2) has recently been shown to be an important enzyme in the metabolism of epoxygenase-derived eicosanoids that play important functional roles in pulmonary physiology and may contribute to the pathogenesis of asthma. STUDY OBJECTIVE:The focus of our pilot study was to evaluate whe...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Polonikov AV,Ivanov VP,Solodilova MA,Khoroshaya IV,Kozhuhov MA,Panfilov VI

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well-recognized that atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) are raised in conditions with ventricular volume and pressure overload. In addition to this established role in left ventricular congestive cardiac failure, there is good evidence that BNP has a diagnostic role in right ve...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Yap LB,Mukerjee D,Timms PM,Ashrafian H,Coghlan JG

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is an important tool to refine the diagnosis and staging approach in patients with a possible lung cancer. In addition, other applications of PET imaging are being explored. Data consistently show that the intensity of uptake on a PET scan correlates with the biological aggre...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Detterbeck FC,Vansteenkiste JF,Morris DE,Dooms CA,Khandani AH,Socinski MA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Esmolol, an intravenous, ultrashort-acting beta-blocker, was studied for its ability to safely control supraventricular arrhythmias up to 24 hours in 15 postoperative cardiothoracic surgery patients with atrial fibrillation or flutter and rapid ventricular response. Esmolol obtained an initial therapeutic response in ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Schwartz M,Michelson EL,Sawin HS,MacVaugh H 3rd

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00