abstract：:Several filters specific for respiratory function tests have been on the market for several years. Recommended by the manufacturers to avoid contaminating the equipment and thus improve patient safety, these filters require a considerable financial investment. We studied the passage of diluted blood into artificial sa...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Castel O,Planchon C,Denjean A,Soyer S,Barrière M,Merle C,Fauchere JL

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1975, 340 patients were treated by tracheal sleeve resection for tracheal or subglottic laryngeal iatrogenic stenoses in our unit. Preoperative iterative Nd YAG laser sessions have usually been performed, without success. The length of the sleeve specimen was an average of 3 1/4 cm. Twelve patients died on the p...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Bonnette P,Colchen A,Leroy M,Bisson A

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory handicap due to neurological diseases is often underestimated. Given clinical signs are either mild or absent, systematic measurement of the vital capacity is the best mean to detect in practice the restrictive syndrome. The onset of home mechanical ventilatory support should be decided at steady state, ap...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Raphaël JC,Chevret S,Auriant I,Clair B,Gajdos P

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The granulocytic sarcoma is a rare and extramedullary tumor, which is composed of granulocytic precursor cells. The diagnosis remains difficult. Infectious disease are often associated with leukemic processes. Combination of clinical, radiological and pathological findings are useful for diagnosis. On gross examinatio...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Vottero G,Devouassoux G,Lantuejoul S,Pison C,Brambilla E,Brambilla C

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of fibreoptic bronchoscopy has enabled significant progress in the understanding of the pathogenesis of asthma. It has brought to the fore the importance of bronchial inflammation even in asymptomatic patients and/or in patients who have only mild disease. The practice of bronchial biopsy in vivo is an...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Jaffuel D,Mathieu M,Torado de la Fuente P,Michel FB,Godard P,Demoly P

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of isolated surgical resection for stage III lung cancer are not satisfactory, since overall 5-year survival rates rarely exceed 15%. Deaths during follow-up are mainly due to metastatic progression. The multimodality approach adds chemotherapy to surgery, with the intent to improve the control of micrometasta...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Massard G,Grunenwald D

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhaled medications are widely used in patients suffering from bronchial diseases. Beside their pharmacological properties, nebulised solutions have physico-chemical characteristics that can alter bronchial reactivity. Non-isotonic solutions can induce a bronchial hyperresponsiveness and/or a severe bronchonconstricti...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Portel L,Tunon de Lara JM,Vernejoux JM,Weiss I,Taytard A

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A schwannoma of the phrenic nerve is a rare disorder which presents as a tumour of the anterior mediastinum. It is seen in adults and is usually latent. We report two cases in elderly subjects in whom the phrenic nerve tumour had achieved a significant size. One of these schwannomas had degenerated into sarcomatous ch...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Le Pimpec-Barthes F,Martinod E,Riquet M,Saint-Blancard P,Jancovici R

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between allergens in a domestic environment and asthma has been extensively studied and it is only recently that studies have suggested the possibility of the role of chemical pollutants in the internal environment in the genesis of asthma. The pollutants studied are oxides of nitrogen (nitrogen dioxi...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Krieger P,de Blay F,Pauli G,Kopferschmitt MC

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 74-year-old woman was hospitalised for pleuro-pneumonia of the right base. The chest x-ray showed the presence of a right paratracheal opacity which persisted during the course of the infectious episode. A computed tomographic scan of the thorax showed a voluminous anterior mediastinal mass which compressed the trac...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Bota S,Cuvelier A,Peillon C,Metayer J,Benhamou D,Muir JF

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amongst the elements which contributed to the success of the early lung transplants at the beginning of the 1980's we feel that the careful selection of candidates probably played a predominant role. If some of the selection criteria initially described remain somewhat intangible, others have either been eased or have...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Mal H,Sleiman C,Roué C,Lévy A,Brugière O,Fournier M,Pariente R

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changing incidence and nature of mycobacterial infections subsequent to the historical regression of tuberculosis and the acquired human immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic, as well as the development of new technical tools for molecular biology, have profoundly modified the methods used for the bacteriological ...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Wyplosz B,Truffot-Pernot C,Robert J,Jarlier V,Grosset J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the records of 15 Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infected patients with pulmonary cryptococcosis (PC). PC was the first AIDS-defining manifestation in nine patients. HIV infection was identified simultaneously with the onset of PC in 4 patients. The CD4+ lymphocyte count was low in all cases (median, 2...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Balloul E,Couderc LJ,Molina JM,Cahite I,Wolff M,Saimot AG,Caubarrère I

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) remains disappointing despite high initial complete response rate. The dramatic initial chemosensitivity of tumor cells is frustrated by the early emergence of drug resistant clonogenic cells, regardless of front line treatments. Enhancement of dose-intensity (D...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： de Crevoisier R,le Cesne A,le Chevalier T

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aortic rupture in the pulmonary parenchyma or the bronchi rarely results in an haemoptysis. It means in most of the cases the rupture of an aortica aneurysm. We relate the observation of a aorto-bronchial fistula from a tuberculosa origin in an old woman case. Although the tuberculosa aortitis is becoming very exc...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Girard P,Boquel V,Fournel P,Gournier JP,Barral X,Emonot A

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) are a multigenic family involving 14 enzymes which can cleave most, if not all, the components of the extracellular matrix (interstitium and basement membranes). The present work reports on the main structural characteristics, the substrate preference and the site synthesis of these...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Cuvelier A,Kuntz C,Sesboüé R,Muir JF,Martin JP

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thanks to a simplification of surgical techniques, single or double lung transplants have expanded significantly in latter years. Infection remains an important cause for morbidity and mortality, more so in early rather than late stages. Bacterial infections cause approximately fifty per cent of all infections. They c...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Nicod LP

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of eosinophilic pneumonia secondary to taking Tetracycline whose severity required the use of mechanical ventilation and steroid therapy. On the basis of this case, we review the characteristics of drug-induced pneumonia as well as the differential diagnosis which are evoked. ...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Liegeon MN,De Blay F,Jaeger A,Pauli G

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitisation to non tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) may provoke a non specific tuberculin reaction and can cause problems in the interpretation of tuberculin tests in subjects who have not been vaccinated with BCG. The practice of testing for antigens to NTM (sensitins) should be useful for pointing to the right diagn...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Albertini M,Haas H,Chiche V,Bourrier T,Dageville C,Mariani R

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 45-year old woman with daytime sleepiness, polycythemia, hypoxemia and hypercapnia, admitted to hospital on three occasions in a 10 month period for acute respiratory failure. Polysomnography demonstrated apneas of central type, testing of the respiratory drive suggested central alveolar hypoventilation...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Noseda A,Devriendt J,Hoffmann G,Schmerber J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amongst the undesirable effects of medical intervention which touch on the respiratory apparatus one can distinguish schematically those disorders which affect the "passive respiratory system" (lungs, pleura, bronchi and vessels) and those which concern the "active respiratory system (SRA)" (nerve centres, respiratory...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Similowski T,Gatineau M,Straus C,Derenne JP

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleurisies due to the syndrome of ovarian hyperstimulation typically accompany ascites and in their most severe form are associated with haemoconcentration, hypovolaemia and thromboembolic phenomena. It is not unusual in this context for pleural effusions to be isolated. They may occur during treatment for sterility b...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Caliandro R,Labalme MJ,Pérol M,Nicollet B,Guérin JC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of a pneumothorax occurring as a complication of AIDS is a poor prognostic sign. We have undertaken a review of 26 patients admitted to hospital for a pneumothorax of whom 25 were admitted for therapy: five resolved under simple drainage; twenty required a pleurodesis which was performed on thirteen und...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Riquet M,Le Pimpec-Barthes F,Debrosse D,Houel R,Hubsch JP,Manac'h D,Saab M,Debesse B

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case of disseminated pulmonary histoplasmosis in an HIV positive patient who had travelled in countries where the disease was endemic. The principle clinical characteristics of the disease are reviewed including the radiology and the methods of treatment particularly in the forms occurring in this...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Herry I,Antoine M,Roux P,Girard PM,Mayaud C,Cadranel J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The consensus conference convened by the French Language Society for Infectious Disease at Lille in 1991 stressed the fact that two germs were most often the cause of exacerbation in chronic bronchitis (Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae) and that antibiotic therapy was the "safe solution" and that th...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Taytard A,Vernejoux JM,Villanueva P,Tunon De Lara JM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a case of drug-induced cytolytic hepatitis probably secondary to hypersensitivity to allopurinol which was prescribed incorrectly for secondary hyperuricaemia during treatment with pyrazinamide. The diagnosis was reviewed in view of the late occurrence of hepatitis in relation to the onset of the ...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Urban T,Maquarre E,Housset C,Chouaid C,Devin E,Lebeau B

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:General reviews about occupational asthma divide the susceptible allergens capable of initiating asthma into two distinct groups: those of high and of low molecular weight. Atopy would be a risk factor for developing occupational asthma to high molecular weight allergens but not to those of low molecular weight. In th...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Lemière C,Charpin D,Vervloet D

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young man without any past history of note had taken isotretinoin for disfiguring acne before the summer season. He presented with a severe bilateral pneumonia, associated with dyspnoea two months after the start of treatment. On the pulmonary radiography there was a bilateral ground glass appearance which was worse...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Oliviero G,Constans P,Caby I,De Rohan Chabot P,Lacherade JC

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility and the good immediate acceptability of unilateral lung transplants in the patients with obstructive respiratory problems have recently been demonstrated and since the initial reports, some hundreds of lung transplants have been performed in various parts of the world for this indication. Nevertheless,...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Mal M,Fournier M,Sleiman C,Roué C,Raffy O,Jebrak G,Roux F,Mangiapan G,Duchatelle JP,Kitzis M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Utilization of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs') for hospital payments in France. OBJECTIVES:To search the variations and the explicative factors of length of stay in a pneumologic unit, to analyse the relevance of the indicators by using the DRG's and the supplementary variables in a medical and economical ...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Vergnenègre A,Chalé JJ,Grouchka C,Séné E,Pous J,Bonnaud F

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total lung capacity (TLC) and residual volume (RV) estimations were obtained from single-breath nitrogen washouts in 96 male and 77 female healthy never-smokers with normal spirometry from a non-polluted rural area in north-east France. TLC depended on height (both sexes) and diminished slightly with age in males, wit...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Teculescu D,Damel MC,Benamghar L,Costantino E,Pham QT,Marchand M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of primary broncho-pulmonary cancer presenting as a round, fine walled cyst. Based on the observations in this case, and from the data in the literature, we suggest the characteristics of the radiology and scanning which should enable the neoplastic aetiology to be suspected. ...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Kessler R,Salame I,Roche O,Chaouat A,Weitzenblum E

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiral scanning (BSV) is a newly acquired scanning technique for all or part of the thoracic volume in a single breath-hold. It offers many advantages when compared to conventional CT scanning. The study of the lungs with a single breath-hold avoids the inconvenience of an anatomical discontinuity while acquiring the ...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Rémy J,Rémy-Jardin M,Giraud F,Wannebroucq J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a study of 8 patients with acute Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection of the respiratory tract admitted to the Army Hospital Desgenettes over a 10 months period. Our clinical observations are compared with a review of the literature. We observed a seasonal outbreak in spring and autumn. This infection was encount...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Devouassoux G,Heyraud JD,Gontier C

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No treatment was established for disseminated M. avium intracellulare (MAC) infection, a common disease of end stage of AIDS. An open study was conducted to assess in 173 AIDS patients, the activity of clarithromycin. Initial bacteriologic eradication from blood was observed in 136/147 evaluable patients (93%). Acquir...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Dautzenberg B,Saint-Marc T,Durant J,Reynes J,Meyohas MC,Legrand MF,Truffot C,Chauvin JP

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of non-allergic bronchial hyperreactivity brings limited information in the diagnosis of asthma, whether for epidemiological purposes or for an individual patient. Its sensitivity and specificity in the general population amount to 46 and 89% respectively. It follows that the positive and negative pred...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Savoy J,Junod AF

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxocariasis is a frequent disease in children, but the severe clinical manifestations are rare in the literature (diffuse interstitial pneumonia with hypoxaemia and acute severe asthma). The diagnosis is made thanks to the reliability of serological techniques (the ELISA test and using antigen excretion-secretion tes...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Bouchard O,Arbib F,Paramelle B,Brambilla C

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen patients with a tracheostomy who were undergoing artificial ventilation at home were included in a study covering 62 episodes, during a month of treatment, which was undertaken with three different humidification systems: A Puritan Bennet Cascade humidifier (C), a Swedish nose Vygon-(V) (a hydroscopic condens...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Antoun F,Guyen JN

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognosis of tumours invading the lumen of the tracheobronchial tree is very poor. The majority of patients can only be offered symptomatic treatment. Different techniques to relieve bronchial obstruction have recently been developed. Amongst these is endobronchial radiation treatment at high dosage, with the adva...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Trédaniel J,Hennequin C,Zalcman G,Walter S,Maylin C,Hirsch A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case of a patient presenting with a bronchogenic mediastinal cyst, which presented as a super-infection of the cyst. The cyst was associated with malformation of the cervical vertebra, cardiovascular abnormalities and congenital deafness, placing this in the group of rare complex polymalformation ...

journal_title：Revue des maladies respiratoires

authors： Vittecoq O,Girault C,Heliot P,Louvel JP,Benhamou D,Paillotin D,Muir JF

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00