Tracheoesophageal and aortoesophageal fistulae complicating corrosive esophagitis.

abstract：:Pulmonary specimens obtained from ten normal subjects and 53 patients with various pulmonary diseases were studied with energy-dispersive x-ray analysis. The amount of silicon in the pulmonary tissue was determined and expressed as a silicon/sulfur (Si/S) ratio. This Si/S ratio was below 0.2 in the ten normal subjects...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Funahashi A,Schlueter DP,Pintar K,Siegesmund KA

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respondents at an interactive symposium on pleural space infections (n = 339) at the 1991 American College of Chest Physicians Annual Scientific Assembly recorded their personal management preferences for hypothetical patients with empyema. The group's preference was to treat pleural sepsis from an anaerobic multilocu...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Strange C,Sahn SA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite many years of clinical research, there is still no effective therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). Untreated, the prognosis is poor, with a median survival of < 1 year. Single-agent or combination chemotherapy as well as radiotherapy have not shown persistent improvements in response or survival. I...

journal_title：Chest

authors： van Ruth S,Baas P,Zoetmulder FA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 14 patients with mitral valve prolapse syndrome was referred for coronary angiographic study. The group was selected on the basis that all members had recurrent chest pain as their chief complaint and all had interpreted their chest pain as serious enough to warrant at lest two previous emergency visits to ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mautner RK,Katz GE,Iteld BJ,Phillips JH

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Right-sided chest lead ECGs (V3R to V6R) were recorded in 110 normal male subjects who were between the ages of 17 and 22 years old (mean, 17.9 years). The prevalence of the rS pattern decreased from V3R (89 percent) to V6R (37 percent). However, the opposite was the case for the rSr pattern (10 percent in V3R and 36 ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tan CC,Hiew TM,Chia BL

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When the etiology of a patient's chronic cough is established, specific antitussive therapy that is aimed at a particular cause of cough is highly effective. Nevertheless, in certain situations, therapy with cough suppressants, which previously were classified as nonspecific antitussive therapy, and which ai...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Dicpinigaitis PV

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the clinical correlates of asthma in a community-based sample of elderly persons. PARTICIPANTS:A community sample of 4,581 persons > or = 65 years old from the Cardiovascular Health Study. MEASUREMENTS:Standardized respiratory, sleep, and quality-of-life (QOL) questions, a medication inventory, ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Enright PL,McClelland RL,Newman AB,Gottlieb DJ,Lebowitz MD

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postmortem examination two weeks following implantation of a demand pacemaker with sutureless electrodes demonstrated that (1) the loops of intrapericardial electrode leads indented the myocardium and produced a circumscribed area of subepicardial necrosis, and (2) one of the electrode coils protruded into the right v...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Steinke WE,Thomas FT,ul Hassan Z,Mendoza RA,Gear AS

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lung mast cells have been reported recently to contain small amounts of the elastolytic protease present in the neutrophil and implicated in the pathogenesis of alveolar wall destruction in emphysema. Since mast cells are numerous within alveolar walls, release of inflammatory mediators (and possibly elastase) b...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kalenderian R,Raju L,Roth W,Schwartz LB,Gruber B,Janoff A

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Inspiratory capacity (IC) has been proposed as a simple method to assess acute changes in functional residual capacity (FRC) with bronchodilation, assuming that total lung capacity (TLC) is unchanged. This assumption is based on studies using body plethysmography, which may not accurately measure TLC i...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Duranti R,Filippelli M,Bianchi R,Romagnoli I,Pellegrino R,Brusasco V,Scano G

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malignant pleural effusion is associated with short life expectancy and significant morbidity. A randomized controlled trial comparing indwelling pleural catheters (IPCs) with talc pleurodesis found that IPCs reduced in-hospital time and the need for additional procedures but were associated with excess adve...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Penz ED,Mishra EK,Davies HE,Manns BJ,Miller RF,Rahman NM

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of cardiovascular and pulmonary limitation in performing maximal exercise is contrasted in patients with mitral valve disease (MVD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The ventilatory (VE) gas exchange (VO2 and VCO2) and heart rate (HR) responses to an incremental cycle ergometer exercise were m...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nery LE,Wasserman K,French W,Oren A,Davis JA

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In airway diseases such as asthma and COPD, specific structural changes may be observed, very likely secondary to an underlying inflammatory process. Although it is still controversial, airway remodeling may contribute to the development of these diseases and to their clinical expression and outcome. Airway remodeling...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bergeron C,Boulet LP

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of the activity of acid hydrolases and of alkaline phosphatase in bronchial aspirates obtained through bronchoscopic procedures from a series of 300 patients forms the basis for a screening program to diagnose bronchial malignant neoplasms more effectively. We define such a screening test as one permit...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kühn SH,de Kock MA,Gevers W

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased blood lactate concentration (hyperlactatemia) and lactic acidosis (hyperlactatemia and serum pH < 7.35) are common in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock and are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In some patients, most of the lactate that is produced in shock states is due to inade...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Suetrong B,Walley KR

更新日期：2016-01-01 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 chapter about the recognition, treatment, and prevention of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is part of the Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (8th Edition). Grade 1 recommendations are strong and indicate that the benefi...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Warkentin TE,Greinacher A,Koster A,Lincoff AM

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guidelines are critical for facilitating cost-effective COPD care. Development and implementation in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) is challenging. To guide future strategy, an overview of current global COPD guidelines is required. RESEARCH QUESTION:We systematically reviewed national COPD guideli...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tabyshova A,Hurst JR,Soriano JB,Checkley W,Wan-Chun Huang E,Trofor AC,Flores-Flores O,Alupo P,Gianella G,Ferdous T,Meharg D,Alison J,Correia de Sousa J,Postma MJ,Chavannes NH,van Boven JFM

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vasoactive medications are commonly used in the treatment of critically ill patients, but their impact on the development of ICU-acquired weakness is not well described. The objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between vasoactive medication use and the outcome of ICU-acquired weakness. ME...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wolfe KS,Patel BK,MacKenzie EL,Giovanni SP,Pohlman AS,Churpek MM,Hall JB,Kress JP

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the influence of respiratory muscle overload and right cardiac overload among the possible risk factors of hospital readmission in a 1-year follow-up of a cohort of patients with moderate-to-severe COPD. METHODS:A total of 112 COPD patients who were admitted consecutively to the hospital for acute exac...

journal_title：Chest

authors： González C,Servera E,Marín J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is unknown if the radiographic fibrosis score predicts mortality in persistent hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) and if survival is similar to that observed in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) when adjusting for the extent of radiographic fibrosis. METHODS:We reviewed records from 177 patients with HP...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mooney JJ,Elicker BM,Urbania TH,Agarwal MR,Ryerson CJ,Nguyen MLT,Woodruff PG,Jones KD,Collard HR,King TE Jr,Koth LL

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has been documented to cause community-acquired pneumonias (CAP), notable for necrotizing features. The frequency of occurrence, risk factors, and optimal treatment of CA-MRSA CAP are unclear. METHODS:This was a retrospective analysis ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lobo LJ,Reed KD,Wunderink RG

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung transplantation is a good therapeutic option for end-stage lung disease. Data on thromboembolic complications following lung transplantation are scarce. STUDY OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the incidence of thromboembolic events following lung transplantation, and to determine their possible association with h...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Izbicki G,Bairey O,Shitrit D,Lahav J,Kramer MR

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 34-year-old HIV-infected man was successfully treated with antimicrobial therapy alone for Rhodococcus equi pneumonia and has survived longer than six months. In the current literature, only two of seven HIV-infected patients so treated have survived as long as six months. Based on our experience and the available l...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Cury JD,Harrington PT,Hosein IK

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinicians who auscultate the chest of normal children note that the frequency content of their breath sounds appears to vary with age. Because these changes have not been systematically documented before, we recorded and analyzed inspiratory breath sounds in 35 children (0 to 13 years) and five adults (34 to 43 years...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hidalgo HA,Wegmann MJ,Waring WW

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thoracic splenosis (post-traumatic autotransplantation of splenic tissue) is rare and generally asymptomatic. We report a patient with thoracic splenosis presenting with repeated hemoptysis. The blood supply of the hypervascular splenic transplants originated from a bronchial and an intercostal artery. Hemoptysis impr...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Cordier JF,Gamondes JP,Marx P,Heinen I,Loire R

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:COPD, the fifth-leading cause of death worldwide, is characterized by chronic inflammation. However, no available agent can effectively cure this inflammation. A dietary supplement containing omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) has anti-inflammatory effects. In this study, we hypothesized that nutrit...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Matsuyama W,Mitsuyama H,Watanabe M,Oonakahara K,Higashimoto I,Osame M,Arimura K

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the theory that obstructive (OSA) and central (CSA) sleep apneas share common pathophysiologic mechanisms, we attempted to treat eight patients with predominantly CSA by continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). All patients exhibited repetitive episodes of CSA and mixed sleep apneas (MSA) in the supine pos...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Issa FG,Sullivan CE

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the correspondence between fluctuations of esophageal pressure measured before and after placement of a nasogastric (NG) tube in six normal volunteers. Flow, airway pressure, and esophageal pressure data from at least 20 breaths were recorded in seven ventilatory conditions in two body postures: 0 degree (s...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Niknam J,Chandra A,Adams AB,Nahum A,Ravenscraft SA,Marini JJ

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-dimensional cross-sectional echocardiographic diagnosis of bicuspid aortic valves is described and compared with results of M-mode echocardiograms. Aortic valve anatomy was determined in 19 selected patients by angiography, and confirmed in five by direct surgical visualization. Using an eccentricity index (EI...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Fowles RE,Martin RP,Abrams JM,Schapira JN,French JW,Popp RL

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00