abstract：:Nineteen consecutive patients with clinically suspected sarcoidosis underwent 67Ga-scintigraphy prior to transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB) to determine if 67Ga uptake in lung parenchyma would increase the diagnostic yield of the biopsy procedure. Biopsies were obtained from the areas showing parenchymal uptake on the ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ackart RS,Munzel TL,Rodriguez JJ,Donlan CJ,Klayton RJ,Foreman DR

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with ulcerative colitis had extensive upper zone pulmonary disease while taking sulfasalazine. Pulmonary function tests showed progressive restrictive and obstructive disease. Lung biopsy showed bronchiolitis obliterans and chronic interstitial pneumonia or fibrosing alveolitis with a mild eosinophilic infil...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Williams T,Eidus L,Thomas P

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been recognized that asthma often worsens at night. The nature of nocturnal asthma is unclear. Previously we have demonstrated that acute asthma attacks can be induced by exposing the body to cold, and that such attacks can be prevented by breathing warm, humidified air (WHA). Since body temperature begins...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Chen WY,Chai H

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed our experience with 41 children hospitalized from 1974 to 1978 for adenovirus (ADV) bronchiolitis. Thirty-two patients (78 percent) were native Indians between four and 12 months old. In 18 of the 41 patients (43.9 percent) acute complications developed. The five fatal cases (12.2 percent) were confined to...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wenman WM,Pagtakhan RD,Reed MH,Chernick V,Albritton W

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to rationalize the choice of injector and bronchoscope sizes during bronchoscopy under general anesthesia using the Sanders attachment technique. Arterial Po2 and Pco2, FIo2, and peak inspiratory pressure at the tip of the bronchoscope were plotted against the ratio (RI/B) of the internal...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Zveibil F,Lemer J,De Myttenaere S,Birkhan J,Bursztein S

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient had accelerated attacks of chest pain associated with transient ST elevation or depression in the anterior leads. Coronary angiogram revealed severe multi-vessel disease. Anginal attacks with conspicuous ST depression were induced repeatedly by both oral and sublingual administration of nifedipine. Among var...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Yokoyama M,Koizumi T,Fujitani K,Mizutani T,Fukuzaki H

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) tissue-typing studies on patients with genetically transmitted hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have demonstrated an HLA linkage in a Caucasian and black patient group and an HLA-DR locus association in a Japanese population sample. To confirm whether a specific HLA antigen(s) might serve as a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gardin JM,Gottdiener JS,Radvany R,Maron BJ,Lesch M

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute elevation of the ST segment in several ECG leads was observed in seven patients with bacterial shock during the course of therapy. Six patients had bacterial pneumonia, one had acute cholecystitis, and none had a previous history of heart disease. At the onset of the ST elevation, all patients were receiving dop...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Terradellas JB,Bellot JF,Sarís AB,Gil CL,Torrallardona AT,Garriga JR

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra- and interobserver variations in the measurement of systolic time intervals (STIs) by three experienced cardiologists were investigated in 20 tracings on which phonocardiograms, carotid pulse and electrocardiograms were recorded simultaneously. The STIs studied were the time interval from the Q wave to the aorti...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ishikawa K,Ishikawa M,Morihara H,Yanagisawa A,Muramatsu J,Sawayama T,Maeda K

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two patients with non-conventional thyroiditis whose chief complaint was chronic persistent cough. Cough was attributed to thyroiditis only after extensive diagnostic evaluations failed to uncover another cause and only after cough and thyroiditis disappeared simultaneously with suppressive therapy for the l...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Irwin RS,Pratter MR,Hamolsky MW

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute hypoxemia produces opposite effects on the pulmonary and systemic vascular resistance. To assess the influence of acute hypoxemia on cardiac murmurs, 36 patients with a single valvular or congenital heart lesion were studied. As expected from these hemodynamic effects, right-sided regurgitant type murmurs increa...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Curiel R,Tortoledo F,Rodriguez L,Soto R,Perez-Gonzalez J

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the surface temperature of the tumors in 27 patients with primary lung cancer, using a flexible bronchofiberscope and a thermometer made from chromel-constantan. The thermometer was inserted into the aspiration channel of the bronchofiberscope, and temperature was studied under bronchofiberscopic located i...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ohgimi T,Akiyama S,Shimokata K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-two patients with mitral stenosis underwent cardiac catheterization with coronary angiography. Twenty-one patients (26 percent) had coronary artery disease. Characteristics of the mitral valve area, cardiac output, pulmonary artery pressure, pulmonary vascular resistance, left ventricular end-diastolic pressure...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Chun PK,Gertz E,Davia JE,Cheitlin MD

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of clenbuterol, a beta adrenergic drug, and ambroxol, a secretolytic agent, on regional mucociliary clearance and pulmonary radioaerosol distribution was investigated in two groups of 15 patients with COLD in a double-blind cross-over trial with placebo. Clearance rates of inhaled 99mTc-labelled human serum...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Weiss T,Dorow P,Felix R

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the relationship between blood pressure and cardiac performance has been widely recognized, there are few published clinical observations concerning the effect of blood pressure control on cardiac function. We evaluated the effect of prazosin, an antihypertensive agent which also improves hemodynamic measurem...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Massie BM,Chan S

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of physiologic pacing utilizing transvenous atrial and ventricular electrodes has recently taken on increased importance. A simple, safe, technique for electrode implantation has been used in 14 patients and enabled the implanting physicians to establish permanent atrioventricular (A-V) sequential pacing with ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Fox S,Toonder FG

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of one hour exposures of healthy nonsmoking human volunteers to submicrometer H2SO4 droplets via nasal mask on tracheobronchial mucociliary particle clearance were studied using two different sized monodisperse gamma-tagged Fe2O3 test aerosols. The larger sized Fe2O3 aerosol, 7.5 micrometers AMAD, was depo...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lippmann M,Leikauf G,Spektor D,Schlesinger RB,Albert RE

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two patients with acute dissection of the ascending aorta, the diagnosis was made with two-dimensional echocardiography and confirmed by aortography. The echocardiograms localized the intimal flap and false channel in both cases. Although clinical evaluation and indicated radiologic studies remain the primary modal...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Rubenson DS,Fowles RE,Miller DC,Guthaner DF,Popp RL

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A six-month-old girl with an aberrant systemic arterial supply from the descending thoracic aorta to the left lower lobe had congestive heart failure. Although the pulmonary parenchyma was normal, there was an absence of normal pulmonary arterial supply to the left lower lobe. Main pulmonary arterial and aortic cinean...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Yabek SM,Burstein J,Berman W Jr,Dillon T

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum concentration of angiotensin-converting enzyme is frequently elevated in individuals with active sarcoidosis. The enzyme is presumably actively synthesized by the epithelioid and giant cells of the granuloma. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, resulting from the inhalation of antigens from pigeons by susceptible ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： McCormick JR,Thrall RS,Ward PA,Moore VL,Fink JN

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The usefulness of lung-thorax compliance (or elastance) as an index of pulmonary compliance (or elastance) was examined in 15 patients being ventilated for acute respiratory failure. Mean lung-thorax elastance (ELT) was 27.9 +/- 2.6 cm H2O/L, and the chest wall accounted for 34 +/- 2 percent of the mean total value. C...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Katz JA,Zinn SE,Ozanne GM,Fairley HB

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoblastic lymphadenopathy presents with fever, malaise, cough, dyspnea, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, hypergammaglobulinemia, interstitial pulmonary infiltrates, mediastinal adenopathy, and effusions. The diagnosis is made on the basis of lymph node biopsy. Based on the course in our patients and the cases ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bradley SL,Dines DE,Banks PM,Hill RW

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：:In two patients a documented Texas A2 influenza infection was associated with the development of interstitial pulmonary disease. One patient had an acute fulminating process resulting in respiratory failure and necessitating ventilatory assistance. Open lung biopsy revealed a histologic picture consistent with usual i...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pinsker KL,Schneyer B,Becker N,Kamholz SL

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echocardiographic examination in a patient with primary pulmonary hypertension demonstrated midsystolic closure of the aortic valve, which has often been described in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with or without obstruction, in discrete subaortic stenosis, and in ruptured aneurysm of the right coronary sinus of Valsalv...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Doi YL,Bishop RL,Sugiura T,Spodick DH

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The findings in a 22-year-old man with Ebstein's anomaly of the tricuspid valve, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, and a persistent left superior vena cava are reported. This is the first reported case of this combination of anomalies in which the atrial septum was intact and the left superior vena cava communicated wit...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lam W,Danoviz J,Witham D,Wyndham C,Rosen KM

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blind crossover controlled study, intravenous (IV) or nebulized terbutaline was given to eight patients with moderately severe asthma on two separate days. Four incremental doses of terbutaline were given by each route to establish a maximal effect. Both routes of administration produced significant increa...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Pierce RJ,Payne CR,Williams SJ,Denison DM,Clark TJ

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-three patients who were to undergo diagnostic fiberoptic bronchoscopy were studied. Pulmonary function tests were performed before the procedure, after topical lidocaine anesthesia, and immediately and four hours after bronchoscopy. Nine patients received aerosolized isoproterenol (Isuprel) before the topical a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Belen J,Neuhaus A,Markowitz D,Rotman HH

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 69-year-old man developed a rupture of the papillary muscle on the fifth day of acute posterior myocardial infarction. The two-dimensional echocardiographic features of ruptured papillary muscle included (1) mobile mass of echos attached to normal chordae tendineae in the left ventricle, (2) absent tip of papillary ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Erbel R,Schweizer P,Bardos P,Meyer J

更新日期：1981-05-01 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：:The objective was to determine if garnetting and raw cotton dusts differed in botanical composition. Estimates of dust composition were based on the contents of gross trash in cotton raw materials and the potential of each gross trash component to be converted into less than 10 mum particulate by a laboratory abrasion...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Morey PR

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Byssinosis first became compensatable in Great Britain in May 1941. The claimants were examined by a specially constituted board consisting of chest physicians and medical specialists from the Manchester area. Following the Industrial Injuries Act of 1946, which became operative in July 1948, the examinations were tak...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Rooke GB

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A saccular aneurysm arising from the descending thoracic aorta was identified ultrasonically in a 60-year-old man with a subsequent pathologic diagnosis of a Listeria monocytogenes mycotic aneurysm. A cross-sectional scanning technique, which permitted visualization of the descending thoracic aorta in long axis, demon...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Come PC,Sacks B,Vine H,McArdle C,Koretsky S,Weintraub R

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared the bronchodilator effect in experimental canine asthma of dyphylline administered by aerosol and intravenous routes in doses producing equivalent concentrations of the drug in the plasma. Pulmonary resistance (RL) was calculated from simultaneous measurements of pressure and flow during fixed-volu...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hirshman CA,Lawyer C,Downes H,Farbood A,Rodgers R,Gerber N

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterozygous familial type II hyperlipoproteinemia (F type II) is primarily manifested in hypercholesterolemia (due to low density lipoprotein-cholesterol [LDL-C] elevation) and premature coronary heart disease (CHD). We studied sequentially the effects of low cholesterol-low saturated fat-low simple carbohydrate diet...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kuo PT,Kostis JB,Moreyra AE,Hayes JA

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrathoracic goiter is a rare cause of superior vena cava syndrome. We present the findings in a patient in whom the syndrome was precipitated by therapy with propylthiouracil and remitted on withdrawal of the medication. The superior vena cava syndrome did not recur on medical management, suggesting that surgery is ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hershey CO,McVeigh RC,Miller RP

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemodynamic and metabolic effects of methylprednisolone were investigated in a double-blind study of 28 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), confirmed by unequivocal electrocardiographic and enzyme changes. Measurements were performed prior to and at 1.5, 3, 4, 4.5, 12 and 24 hours following infusion of me...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Henning RJ,Becker H,Vincent JL,Thijs L,Kalter E,Weil MH

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an unusual and remediable form of heart block which developed in the course of Lyme disease. The diagnosis of Lyme disease requires a careful clinical history pertaining to epidemiologic geography or a history of erythema chronicum migrans. In this case, a highly selective cardiac abnormality responded pro...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bedell SE,Pastor BM,Cohen SI

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tests of overall lung function often reveal abnormalities in elderly smokers, but lung function is less consistently deranged in young smokers. Since airway closure at higher than normal lung volumes is thought to be an early indicator of lung dysfunction in asymptomatic smokers, we used 133xenon to measure regional r...

journal_title：Chest

authors： York EL,Jones RL

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to characterize the effectiveness of cardiology consultation, the outcomes of consultants' recommendations for diagnostic actions and cardiac drugs were quantitatively examined in 394 cases. Drug recommendations were made more frequently (49 percent) than diagnostic recommendations (38 percent) and were a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mackenzie TB,Popkin MK,Callies AL,Jorgensen CR,Cohn JN

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00