Phrenic nerve dysfunction after cardiac operations: electrophysiologic evaluation of risk factors.

abstract：:Low-dose dopamine administration (ie, doses < 5 microg/kg/min) has been advocated for 30 years as therapy in oliguric patients on the basis of its action on dopaminergic renal receptors. Recently, a large, multicenter, randomized, controlled trial has demonstrated that low-dose dopamine administered to critically ill ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Holmes CL,Walley KR

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To determine the effect of tumor diameter on the long-term survival of patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) within a large multi-institutional database, and to assess the accuracy of the T-descriptor threshold of 3 cm. DESIGN AND PATIENTS:A total of 9,191 patients > or = 20 years o...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mery CM,Pappas AN,Burt BM,Bueno R,Linden PA,Sugarbaker DJ,Jaklitsch MT

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary sequestration is a congenital anomaly resulting in nonfunctioning lung tissue in either the "extralobar" or "intralobar" position. Both forms derive their blood supply from the systemic circulation. Large pulmonary sequestrations can present in the newborn with potentially fatal respiratory distress. Surgica...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Piccione W Jr,Burt ME

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitral, aortic, and coronary arterial disease have been described in the various mucopolysaccharidoses. We report the first successful combined aortic and mitral valve replacement in an adult female patient with severe aortic and mitral stenosis due to Scheie's syndrome, a mucopolysaccharide storage disease. Both annu...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Butman SM,Karl L,Copeland JG

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Changes in Paco(2) have not been described during thoracoscopy under sedation-assisted local anesthesia. We hypothesized that hypoventilation might occur secondary to administration of sedatives and decreased ventilation in one lung. AIM:Prospectively measure cutaneous carbon dioxide tension (Pcco(2)) in ad...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Chhajed PN,Kaegi B,Rajasekaran R,Tamm M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between quality of life and measures of asthma, such as lung function, reversibility to bronchodilation, exhaled nitric oxide (NO), and bronchial responsiveness to direct and indirect stimulus in patients with mild asthma in a primary care setting. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ehrs PO,Sundblad BM,Larsson K

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：PURPOSE:To assess whether the presence and duration of air leaks after lobectomy are associated with an increased incidence of cardiopulmonary complications. METHODS:Propensity score analysis was used on 726 patients undergoing pulmonary lobectomy from 1995 through 2004 to form three well-matched pairs of patients: pa...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Brunelli A,Xiume F,Al Refai M,Salati M,Marasco R,Sabbatini A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute care nurse practitioners (ACNPs) are increasingly being employed in ICUs to offset physician shortages, but no data exist about outcomes of critically ill patients continuously cared for by ACNPs. METHODS:Prospective cohort study of all admissions to an adult medical ICU in an academic, tertiary-care ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Landsperger JS,Semler MW,Wang L,Byrne DW,Wheeler AP

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collagenases in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of patients with bronchiectasis and healthy subjects were characterized using specific functional and immunologic assays. The BAL fluid contained interstitial collagenase and collagenolytic proteinases of bacterial origin. Collagenase activities, obtained after organ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sepper R,Konttinen YT,Ding Y,Takagi M,Sorsa T

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:COPD is accepted to be a multicomponent disease with various comorbidities. To our knowledge, the contribution of the GI tract to the systemic manifestation of COPD has never been investigated. This metabolically active organ may experience recurring local oxygen deficits during daily life, leading to distur...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Rutten EPA,Lenaerts K,Buurman WA,Wouters EFM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initial evaluation of 22 patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) on entry into a trial of home oxygen therapy was used to elucidate the possible effects of poor nutritional status on exercise performance in CF. The patients had advanced lung disease (mean FEV1, 36 percent predicted) and all had a stable resting PaO2 less t...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Marcotte JE,Canny GJ,Grisdale R,Desmond K,Corey M,Zinman R,Levison H,Coates AL

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The benefit of noninvasive pressure support ventilation (NIPSV) in avoiding the need for endotracheal intubation and reducing morbidity and mortality associated with endotracheal intubation was evaluated in 41 patients who presented with acute respiratory failure not related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (C...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wysocki M,Tric L,Wolff MA,Millet H,Herman B

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variation in respiratory water loss (RWL) over time, expressed as the mass of water vapor lost per liter (body temperature and pressure, saturated) of ventilation (MH2O), was investigated in two groups: (1) children with exercise-induced asthma; and (2) healthy children. Children were matched for age and sex and w...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tabka Z,Ben Jebria A,Vergeret J,Guenard H

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the role of open lung biopsy in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), we retrospectively reviewed the cases of 42 patients with AIDS who underwent this procedure for the diagnosis of pulmonary infiltrates. Four patients had no preceding bronchoscopy because the severity of the respirat...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Fitzgerald W,Bevelaqua FA,Garay SM,Aranda CP

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients had angiographic appearance of chronic primary coronary artery dissection with features that differed from other patients with this entity studied at autopsy; they were men, greater than or equal to 40 years of age, had angina pectoris and severe coronary artery disease. The right coronary artery, which...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Iskandrian AS,Bemis CE,Kimbiris D,Mintz GS,Hakki AH

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one patients presenting with extrapulmonary sarcoidosis, 20 patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis, and 12 healthy volunteers were investigated. They were evaluated for roentgenographic findings, as well as for immunologic marker expression of cells in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid. The patients presenting wi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hoogsteden HC,van Dongen JJ,Adriaansen HJ,Hooijkaas H,Delahaye M,Hop W,Hilvering C

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using recently published data, a nomogram was constructed to estimate the likelihood of asthma following methacholine challenge. Based on Bayes' theorem, the nomogram makes use of the sensitivity and specificity of methacholine challenge to calculate the post-test probability of asthma once the physician makes a deter...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gilbert R,Auchincloss JH Jr

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:IV hydration before and after cardiac catheterization is effective in preventing contrast-associated renal dysfunction for patients with mild-to-moderate renal insufficiency, but necessitates overnight hospital admission. We tested an outpatient oral precatheterization hydration strategy in comparison with o...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Taylor AJ,Hotchkiss D,Morse RW,McCabe J

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the efficacy of corticosteroid therapy initiated as an alternate-day regimen to that of a four-times-daily regimen in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In this double-blind study, 44 patients with moderate to severe COPD (mean FEV1 740 +/- 310 ml) were hospitalized and randomly al...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Blair GP,Light RW

更新日期：1984-10-01 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 OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the basal level as well as the tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha- and interferon (IFN)-gamma-induced expression and release of the neutrophil chemoattractants interleukin (IL)-8 and growth-related oncogene (GRO)-alpha in primary bronchial epithelial cells (PBECs)...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Schulz C,Krätzel K,Wolf K,Schroll S,Köhler M,Pfeifer M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis occurred in a coronary artery saphenous vein bypass graft. Serial angiograms are presented documenting subtotal occlusion of this graft which occurred over a nine-month period. Pathologic examination of graft material obtained at surgery demonstrated ulcerating atherosclerotic plaque. The occurrence of...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hanlon JT,Massie B,Riches W,Wilson J,Ellis RJ,Gertz EW

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adverse effects of prolonged immobility are due primarily to gravitational effects on blood flow and ventilation, impairment of the normal mucociliary escalator and possibly an increase in extravascular lung water. However, CLRT theoretically should reverse these abnormalities. The sequence of events that culminat...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Sahn SA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to compare the pressure required to abolish apneas as predicted from a previously derived algorithm (Ppred) with the true effective pressure (Peff) determined during a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) titration study. SETTING:Sleep clinic of a university hospital. METHO...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Oliver Z,Hoffstein V

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the effects of intravenous aminophylline on the sinus node, 12 patients with clinical and Holter monitor-documented sick sinus syndrome were studied (1) during the control state, (2) after pharmacologic autonomic blockade and (3) 5 min after intravenous administration of aminophylline. The effects of aminoph...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lai WT,Lai HM,Lin CT,Sheu SH,Hwang YS

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraoperative two-dimensional echocardiography allows visualization of cardiac anatomy and function not possible by other techniques. Although preoperative evaluation by noninvasive methods is usually adequate for diagnosis of cardiac tumors, two-dimensional echocardiography can be beneficial intraoperatively. Intrao...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mora F,Mindich BP,Guarino T,Goldman ME

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:The Fas-Fas ligand (FasL) pathway is a representative system of apoptosis-signaling receptor molecules. We previously described that this pathway may play an important role in the pathogenesis of fibrosing lung diseases. In this study, we hypothesized that soluble form of Fas (sFas) and FasL (sFasL) ma...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kuwano K,Kawasaki M,Maeyama T,Hagimoto N,Nakamura N,Shirakawa K,Hara N

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immediate responses of hypersensitivity to skin testing with purified derivative of tuberculin (PPD) were observed in 2.3 percent of 3,248 patients seen in an allergy clinic, and the relationship to delayed responses was questioned. Immediate cutaneous reactions to testing with PPD appeared in all age groups and occur...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tarlo SM,Day JH,Mann P,Day MP

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The object of this study was to compare the diagnostic yield of Abrams and Cope needles. Pleural biopsies were performed in 24 patients with both needles. In two patients, the procedure was repeated within a few days. All patients had pleural effusion. The biopsies were performed at the same time; the biopsy sites wer...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Morrone N,Algranti E,Barreto E

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00