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：:Cross-sectional echocardiography (CSE) was performed on 19 patients with mitral stenosis (MS). Nine patients (group 1) had little or no mitral valve (MV) calcification; ten patients (group 2) had heavy MV calcification. An opening snap was present in each of the patients in group 1. Of the group 2 patients, five (grou...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Chandraratna PA,Aronow WS,Lurie M

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac toxicity is a major complication which limits the use of adriamycin as a chemotherapeutic agent. Cardiomyopathy is frequent when the total dose exceeds 600 mg/m2 and occurs within one to six months after cessation of therapy. A patient is reported who developed progressive cardiomyopathy two and one-half years...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gottlieb SL,Edmiston WA Jr,Haywood LJ

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is reported who had Histoplasma capsulatum endocarditis, a rare form of disseminated histoplasmosis. He also had disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and defects in cell-mediated immune responses to Histoplasma antigens. Prompt etiologic diagnosis was made by stain of tissue from a mouth ulcer and confirm...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bradsher RW,Wickre CG,Savage AM,Harston WE,Alford RH

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no documentation in the literature of the risk of hypoxemia after chest percussion in acutely ill adults with nonsurgical pulmonary disorders. We studied the immediate effect of postural drainage and chest percussion (PDP) on oxygenation in 22 hospitalized patients with a variety of acute, nonsurgical pulmona...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Connors AF Jr,Hammon WE,Martin RJ,Rogers RM

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature on pulmonary function testing in sarcoidosis is critically reviewed. The results indicate that pulmonary function tests are not a reliable means for detecting the presence of parenchymal sarcoidosis, nor do they provide an accurate estimate of the extent of parenchymal disease. There are at present no k...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Winterbauer RH,Hutchinson JF

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the inpatient records of 139 adult patients with leukemia to determine the incidence of opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patients and the pattern of roentgenographic involvement of such infections. There were 98 parenchymal infiltrates identified, including 43 episodes of local disease and 55 ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tenholder MF,Hooper RG

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beginning in July 1977, cold potassium-induced cardioplegia has been used in 60 consecutive patients undergoing correction of congenital heart defects in whom the aorta was cross clamped. Ages ranged from 4 weeks to 18 years (mean 5.8 years); 40 percent were less than 24 months of age. Surgery included correction of v...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Crawford FA Jr,Barnes TY,Heath BJ

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young man presented to us with an asymptomatic ovoid mass which appeared to be in the right major fissure. The roentgenographic appearance of the lesion was that of a pseudotumor. The computerized tomography scan suggested tissue density leading to exploration. At surgery, we found the mass to be a portion of liver ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Fanta CH,Kacoyanis GP,Koster JK Jr,McFadden ER Jr

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bitolterol mesylate (WIN 37284) is alpha-[tert-butylaminomethyl]-3,4-dihydroxybenzyl alcohol 3,4-di(p-toluate) methanesulfonate, a diester sympathomimetic amine bronchodilator. Bitolterol mesylate represents a new concept in sympathomimetic amine therapy. It is "prodrug" which is inactive until altered in the body. Th...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kass I,Mingo TS

更新日期：1980-08-01 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：:A case of idiopathic pulmonary hypertension is associated with portal venous thrombosis. The patient's chest roentgenogram revealed numerous nodular densities which at necropsy were found to have been caused by an exuberant fibroblastic reaction around small pulmonary arterioles. This is an example of the unusual asso...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bower JS,Dantzker DR,Naylor B

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the Ca2+ movements in smooth muscle cells at rest and during activation and relaxation as deduced from transplasmalemmal Ca2+ fluxes and contractile respnses. The general picture which emerges is: the resting cell has a [Ca2+]cyt below 10(-7) M and large gradients are poised across both the cell membrane a...

journal_title：Chest

authors： van Breemen C,Aaronson P,Loutzenhiser R,Meisheri K

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between changes in cardiac output and intrapulmonary shunt associated with mechanical ventilation was evaluated in 20 patients with the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The distribution of ventilation-perfusion (VA/Q) ratios and the level of intrapulmonary shunt was determined by the multip...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Dantzker DR,Lynch JP,Weg JG

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical, roentgenographic and laboratory findings, their relationship to each other and to the subsequent hospital course are reported for 14 victims of gaseous ammonia inhalation. Initial physical examination enabled differentiation of a mildly affected from a moderately affected group, but patients in both grou...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Montague TJ,Macneil AR

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute and chronic effects of fire fighting on pulmonary function were studied in 54 fire fighters from Connecticut, 32 smokers and 22 nonsmokers. Baseline studies of maximum expiratory flow-volume curves while breathing air and a mixture of 80 percent helium and 20 percent oxygen revealed obstruction of the small ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Loke J,Farmer W,Matthay RA,Putman CE,Smith GJ

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A ventricular inhibited unipolar pacing system in a case of so-called pacemaker syndrome was successfully converted into an atrioventricular sequential system without replacing the ventricular lead. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Bognolo DA,Vijayanagar RR,Eckstein PF,Pollicina F

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial pneumonitis in children is a rare and poorly understood disease. Controversy exists as to whether the varoius histologic changes encountered represent different disease or a spectrum of the same disease. Fourteen biopsy-confirmed cases of desquamative interstitial pneumonitis in children were seen at the ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Stillwell PC,Norris DG,O'Connell EJ,Rosenow EC 3rd,Weiland LH,Harrison EG Jr

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complications following open chest massage in patients with porcine xenografts in the mitral location have not been previously described. The authors report a case of cardiac resuscitation following mitral valve replacement with a stented porcine valve. The patient died following brief closed chest, and then, prolonge...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wild LM,Lajos TZ,Lee AB Jr,Wright J

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symptoms consistent with hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) occurred in 26 of 50 employees working in a localized area of a large factory. This area was served by a single heating-cooling unit utilizing a water humidification system. The illness consisted of flu-like symptoms with fever, chills, headache, cough, dyspne...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ganier M,Lieberman P,Fink J,Lockwood DG

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates that when the heart is markedly displaced posteriorly to the left, or perhaps to the right, the posterior approach may make echocardiographic evaluation possible. Thus, in a patient with congenital unilateral absence of the left pulmonary artery, with marked displacement of the heart posteriorl...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Borgeson E,Vogel JH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients undergoing pneumonectomy were evaluated with the lateral position test (LPT) in addition to routine pulmonary function tests (PFTs). On the basis of the percentage of ventilation estimated to be contributed by each lung on LPT, predictions were made for expected values for each patient's post-pneumonectom...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Walkup RH,Vossel LF,Griffin JP,Proctor RJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the number of procedures necessary to become proficient in flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopic examination. I performed 99 bronchoscopic procedures during a formal training program under the direct supervision of instructors with varying experience. There were no statistical di...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Dull WL

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 1,700 primary tumors of the lung, there were 53 cases of bronchial adenoma (3.1 percent); 38 (72 percent) of the 53 were typical carcinoids, and the remaining 15 were of a higher grade of malignant neoplasm. There was a slight predominance of female patients, and the age of greatest incidence was between 30 and ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： de Lima R

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improved airway resistance following bronchodilator inhalation is not always accompanied by improvement in forced expiratory flow. We studied 241 patients with airways obstruction to learn whether changes in static lung volumes (vital capacity and function residual capacity measured by body plethysmography [FRCB]) wou...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Ramsdell JW,Tisi GM

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant concentrations of asbestos fibers have been found in samples of laryngeal tissue from two patients with past exposure to asbestos and associated asbestosis. In one case, there was a polyp on a vocal cord and in the other one a laryngeal carcinoma. These findings could provide an indication of a local carci...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hirsch A,Bignon J,Sebastien P,Gaudichet A

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients had hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and coronary artery spasm. The clinical diagnosis of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, in all patients, was confirmed by echocardiography and angiography. Significant spasm of the right coronary artery was demonstrated in each patient by selective coron...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Mautner RK,Thomas I,Dhurandhar R,Phillips JH

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if respiratory maneuvers may enhance the response to inhaled bronchodilator drugs, we evaluated the bronchodilator responses when isoproterenol was: inhaled as a bolus high (80 percent VC) compared to low (20 percent VC) lung volumes, and inhaled as a single 800 microgram dose compared to four 200 microgr...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Riley DJ,Liu RT,Edelman NH

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen newly diagnosed cases of symptomatic cocidioidomycosis developed two to four weeks following exposure to a severe natural dust storm. The population at risk consisted of 26,000 residents of the San Joaquin Valley with access to health care at the Naval Hospital, Lemoore, Calif. Eight patients were white, and ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Williams PL,Sable DL,Mendez P,Smyth LT

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been no published reports of pneumopericardium complicating laparoscopy. Following an apparently uncomplicated laparoscopy, a 35-year-old woman developed pneumopericardium associated with subcutaneous emphysema of the neck. This resolved without specific therapy and without sequelae. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Nicholson RD,Berman ND

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased (more positive) end-expiratory and decreased (more negative) end-inspiratory values for intrapleural pressure (PpI) invariably accompany acute bronchoconstriction. We hypothesize that both the increase in vital capacity (VC) and the decrease in residual volume (RV) observed after dilation of the central airw...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lavietes MH,Taylor DW

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare form of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), associated with swallowing solid food, is described. Repeated triggering of the arrhythmia during esophagoscopy was produced by mechanical stimulation of the anterior esophageal wall, 30 cm from the incisors. Treatment with verapamil abolished this tachycar...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Abinader EG,Cooper M

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen patients in the early stages of the adult respiratory distress syndrome with severe hypoxemia who were capable of maintaining adequate spontaneous ventilation were treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). The optimal level of CPAP was adjusted for each patient to achieve the highest oxygenation...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Venus B,Jacobs HK,Lim L

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:99mTechnetium macroaggregated albumin has successfully been used to define severe postoperative pulmonary vasoconstriction in a four-month-old boy with D-transposition of the great vessels who had undergone a Blalock-Hanlon surgical atrial septectomy. Radionuclide imaging documented clinically suspected pulmonary vaso...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Moodie DS,Levy JM,Kahn DR,Lieberman LM,Pastakia B

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a patient who developed gastric rupture as a result of post-extubation laryngeal edema and the use of a manual resuscitation bag. The association between oxygen administraton and gastric rupture is reviewed. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Eichenhorn MS

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unresectable carcinoma of the lung has traditionally been recognized as a contraindication to surgery in massive hemoptysis. A 60-year-old man had massive hemoptysis. At surgery an unresectable neoplastic mass invading the mediastinum and great vessels was encountered. Subtotal resection was accomplished using a stapl...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Hargrove WC 3rd,Harken AH

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of preoperative pulmonary function tests were evaluated in 106 patients who had major thoracic or upper abdominal cardiovascular surgery. These results were related to the occurrence of postoperative complications by comparison of pulmonary function data in patients with an ICU stay of less than 5 days versus ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Cain HD,Stevens PM,Adaniya R

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advisability of prolonged oral or nasotracheal intubation is of continuing concern to physicians caring for patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilatory assistance. Currently, in many health care centers, prolonged intubation is defined as being in excess of seven days. We treated a patient who required mec...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Vogelhut MM,Downs JB

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory effect of lidocaine and lidocaine plus methylparaben as a preservative was studied with 25 strains of bacteria. The tested strains were mixed with each topical anesthetic preparation, and quantitative cultures were performed on aspirates at 0, 30, 60, and 120 minutes. Results were compared to counts obt...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Wimberley N,Willey S,Sullivan N,Bartlett JG

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strapping of the chest causes decreased lung volumes and increased elastic recoil pressure. Such strapping was used in conjunction with single-breath nitrogen washout to study the effects of changes in these factors on the dynamics of the small airways. Studies consisted of simultaneous measurements of the quasistatic...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Al-Bazzaz FJ

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00