abstract：:A 32-year-old man who presented with symptoms suggesting empyema was found at thoracotomy to have infarction of an extralobar pulmonary sequestration. He was completely relieved by excision of the sequestration after securing the systemic vascular pedicle which had undergone torsion. Recognition of the anomalous blood...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Maull KI,McElvein RB

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 24 adult male patients undergoing thoracotomy were found to have a reduction in their cough pressures in the immediate postoperative period to 29 percent of their preoperative values. Cough pressures still averaged only 50 percent of control values one week following surgery, with slow return toward normal...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Byrd RB,Burns JR

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced or second-degree atrioventricular (AV) heart block pre-existing or developing during atrial pacing (AP) at low heart rates of smaller than 130 per minute, limits the value of AP to stress the left ventricle. When Wenkebach type AV block is present, the heart rate can be increased by administration of atropine...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kimbiris D,Linhart JW

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of intractable hemoptysis, short of surgery, is poorly defined. A technique is described utilizing a bronchofiberscope and a Fogarty catheter that not only provides visualization of the source of bleeding, but also furnishes a means of controlling the bleeding. This technique can also be used through a ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Gottlieb LS,Hillberg R

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urticaria with systemic effects occurred in a patient being treated with propranolol and was reproducible upon rechallenge with the drug; Successful beta-adrenergic blocking therapy was achieved using a new agent, tolamolol, with no evidence of any adverse effects. ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Seides SF,Ruskin JN,Damato AN

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrocardiogram changes and pharmacologic responses were studied in 28 cases of brain death. Cardiac activity in this condition is possibly determined by the dynamic balance between the depressant action of hypothermia and the stimulating action of the sympathetic nervous system (without any vagal or central influen...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Drory Y,Ouaknine G,Kosary IZ,Kellermann JJ

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the additional information obtained from 24 hours compared to 12 hours of ambulatory ECG (electrocardiogram) recording, we analyzed 72 ambulatory ECG monitoring tapes in which arrhythmias were present. In all cases the second 12 hours included the entire period of sleep. Only 38 of 233 (16 percent) ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Lopes MG,Runge P,Harrison DC,Schroeder JS

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital subclavian steal consists of atresia of the proximal end of the subclavian artery, while the blood supply to the distal portion of the subclavian artery originates from the circle of Willis. It should be suspected in complicated malformations of the heart associated with marked hypoplasia or interruption of...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Garcia O,Wilkins R,Cunha D,Jesse MJ

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight patients developed severe, progressive acute respiratory insufficiency despite aggressive application of conventional respiratory therapy. Application of increased PEEP (18 torr or greater) resulted in a significant decrease in QA/QT. Selection of the optimal levle of PEEP for each patient required seria...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Kirby RR,Downs JB,Civetta JM,Modell JH,Dannemiller FJ,Klein EF,Hodges M

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 15 patients with life threatening, massive hemoptysis is reported. Thirteen of these patients underwent immediate operative treatment with only three deaths. One died after bronchoscopic identification of the bleeding site while awaiting elective thoracotomy. The other patient left the hospital against med...

journal_title：Chest

authors： McCollun WB,Mattox KL,Guinn GA,Beall AC Jr

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a six-year experience involving 3,089 selective coronary arteriograms (99 percent by the percutaneous transfemoral method), modifications of technique have reduced the incidence of morbid complications. Modifications have involved guidewire technique, systemic heparinization, attention to spontaneous catheter b...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Page HL Jr,campbell WB

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presented data suggest that PAPase may, indeed, be important in the biosynthesis of lung phospholipids. The observed increase in the specific activity of rabbit lung precedes the "surge" of phosphatidylcholine concentration and surfactant biosynthesis by at least 24 hours. In human amnionic fluid, PAPase specific ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Johnston JM,Schultz M,Jimenez JM,MacDonald PC

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve adult patients with ostium primum atrial septal defects (incomplete endocardial cushion defect) who underwent surgical repair of their lesions were evaluated in the late postoperative period. All had closure of the low-lying atrial septal defect, with suturing of the mitral valve cleft in 11 patients. Although ...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Goodman DJ,Harrison DC,Schroeder JS

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These data suggest that the alveolar lining layer and lamellar body membranes contain the same saline-insoluble proteins, two of which are unusual in that they contain hydroxyproline and large amounts of glycine. Neither the function nor the origin of these glycopeptides has been established, and we are currently eval...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Passero MA,Bhattacharyya SN,Sahu S,Lynn WS

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-two healthy young individuals were subjected to controlled, moderate hyperventilation with room air and with 4.9 percent CO2 in air, and monitored electrocardiographically. Significant summed frontal T-wave changes with hyperventilation (sigmaT1,2,3 larger than or equal to 1.5 mm) were observed in 12 patients....

journal_title：Chest

authors： Golden GS,Golden LH,Beerel FR

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with ventricular inversion with normally related great vessels and double inlet left ventricle is presented. the patient also showed features of Down's syndrome. Association of ventricular inversion with normally related great vessels is rare and leads to a basic functional state like that of complete transp...

journal_title：Chest

authors： Tandon R,Moller JH,Edwards JE

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00