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Although a high prevalence of hypertension has been observed in snorers, whether ther...
Study objective: To compare the maximal extrapulmonary effects of the [beta]-agonists...
Objective: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa has...
Study objective: To determine the indications and limitations of surgical videothorac...
Objective: To describe a cluster of donor-transmitted cases of invasive aspergillosis...
We live in an era of awareness that the environment impacts human health. The human, ...
Interleukin-8 (IL-8) has been described as an important angiogenic factor causing pro...
Increased airspace epithelial permeability (EP) occurs in cigarette smokers and in no...
There are few studies providing systematic estimates of the contribution of occupatio...
During the past quarter century, the flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope has facilitated...
Purpose: To describe the risks of transthoracic needle aspiration (TTNA) in a populat...
Although patients with COPD often have elevated pulmonary artery pressures (PAP) and ...
A Hungarian-American kindred with familial primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) and a...
It is both an honor and a source of sadness that I present this first Thomas A. Neff ...
One of the most common somatic genetic alterations in human cancers involves the loss...
One of the goals of this meeting is to explore how investigators in the field of occu...
Occupational and environmental exposure to grain dust can cause a spectrum of clinica...
Acute asthma is a common medical emergency because it afflicts about 5% of the Americ...
To evaluate the individual and additive diagnostic yield(s) of several bronchoscopic ...
Objective: Identify risk factors for work disability among adults with asthma treated...
Objective: To test whether dopexamine hydrochloride, by its [[beta].sub.2]-adrenocept...
A 40-year-old man had progressive shortness of breath for several months prior to hos...
Tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) is a devastating complication of malignancies; howeve...
Chronic beryllium disease (CBD) is an occupationally acquired lung disease that begin...
Detection of pulmonary malignancy often occurs late in the course of the disease. As ...
Pulmonary interstitial fibrosis is a devastating outcome of the chronic inflammatory ...
Chronic bronchitis in cigarette smokers and workers with environmental lung diseases ...
High technology home care (HTHC) is now the fastest growing sector of the home care e...
Objective: Previous research indicates that asthma has been underdiagnosed. However, ...
A 57-year-old nurse complains of slowly progressing dyspnea on exertion of 12 months'...
Isocyanates, highly reactive compounds used extensively in industry, are the most com...
Inhalation of asbestos in a rat model results in the predominant deposition of fibers...
A characteristic of exposure of lungs to certain environmental pollutants is irrevers...
There is increasing evidence that symptoms and disease caused by inhalation of organi...
Since the British MRC(1) and the NOTT(2) trials, there has been no debate that supple...
Study objective: To determine the effect of elective thoracic surgery on energy metab...
Study objective: The aims of the study were to evaluate the technique of selective di...
Exposure to ambient levels of ozone air pollution causes decrements in lung function,...
Airway epithelial cells are a principal target for environmental insults and play a c...
Chronic beryllium disease (CBD) is a pulmonary granulomatous hypersensitivity that is...
Animals are frequently used as "models," or surrogates for humans in experiments aime...
The disappointingly poor outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac resuscitation have promp...
Study objective: To determine whether higher personnel intensive chest physical thera...
The effectiveness of cardiopulmonary support (CPS) as a rescue method following faile...
Kaposi's sarcoma rarely causes upper airway obstruction. In the only two previously r...
Biological markers are potentially useful to investigate occupational lung disorders ...
Sleep disordered breathing afflicts an estimated 20 million or more Americans. Most m...
Experimental pneumoconiosis induced by inhalation of particles is characterized by in...
An association between increased morbidity and mortality and ambient particulate leve...
Sleep disordered breathing is relatively common in the population, with sleep apnea s...
Purpose: Bronchioloalveolar cell adenomas (BAAs) have been described in up to 10% of ...
Current concepts suggest that macrophages may play a central role in pulmonary fibros...
Dental technician's pneumoconiosis (DTP) is a rather recent finding in subjects expos...
The enzyme neutral endopeptidase (NEP) hydrolyses small bioactive peptides, which are...
The alveolar epithelium responds to injury by upregulation of various specialized fun...
Silicosis is characterized by accumulations of macrophages and lymphocytes with miner...
Immune hypersensitivity to house dust mite antigen is one of the most common forms of...
Marvin Olasky's book, The Tragedy of American Compassion, has created a great stir in...
To test the hypothesis that respiratory effort during obstructive apneas contributes,...
Lung resections from 50 Chinese patients in Hong Kong diagnosed as having non-small c...
A 60-year-old man with massive hemoptysis was treated successfully by modified bronch...
We previously reported findings of high numbers of respirable rubber tire fragments i...
Knowledge of the mechanisms responsible for the toxicity of emission source particles...
Purpose: To describe the occurrence, cause, and significance of hemoptysis following ...
Pulmonary extralobar sequestration is a rare anomaly, usually diagnosed during the fi...
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in the United States today, and ...
Inhaled dust particles of appropriate size contact cells of the alveolar region.(1) T...
Indoor allergen exposures are ubiquitous and can lead to significant allergic disease...
Airborne exposure to organic and inorganic dusts, or to certain microbial antigens is...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a preventable and treatable disease. Institutions that diagnose ...
Background: The contribution and role of emphysema and small airways disease in causi...
Increased pleural fluid adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity is classically associated ...
Objective: To quantify the effect of altitude on the operational characteristics of h...
The few reports in the literature on thoracoscopic anatomic lung resections were almo...
We present the case of a patient with left ventricular pseudoaneurysm following acute...
An Open and Shut Case? A remarkably consistent scientific literature indicates the po...
Purpose: To evaluate, on thin-section CT scans, the prevalence of emphysema in patien...
Objective: Patients admitted to the pulmonary isolation service to rule out tuberculo...
Study objective: To study the effect of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) on th...
A 36-year-old woman arrives via ambulance to the emergency department and is comatose...
To understand the mechanism of hepatic hydrothorax clearly, thoracoscopy was performe...
This study was undertaken to test whether multiplane transesophageal echocardiography...
Aim: In this study, the effects of a 12-week hospital-based outpatient pulmonary reha...
Objective: We have studied the effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibit...
Study objective: To evaluate the percentage of nitric oxide (NO) responders in septic...
A 25-year-old man complained of persistent lower back pain for 3 months that was asso...
Many highly trained athletes experience exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB): studies ...
We conducted a questionnaire survey of 346 pulmonary reliabilitation programs to dete...
Study objective: To determine if elderly patients with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) ...
Study objective: Plasma volume expansion is frequently recommended to correct the low...
A 47-year-old man experienced recurrent pulmonary embolism resistant to aggressive me...
Study objective: To determine the prevalences of symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux ...
We have investigated pulmonary hemodynamics in a large series of consecutive, unselec...
Study objective: To assess cardiovascular conditions and other side effects associate...
Since the pleural fluid proteins and lactate are unmeasured anions, the pleural fluid...
We described a young man who had been healyhy until he develop extensive benign left ...
Recently, I was thinking about the changes in the practice of pulmonary medicine duri...
Twenty-six adults (23 to 58 years) with mild to moderate asthma underwent a 10-week s...
Ventilation and gas exchange were studied during sleep and incremental treadmill exer...
Passive smoking has been shown to adversely affect the health of infants and children...
This study was designed to compare the efficacy of coronary thrombolysis obtained wit...
Three Cases of Long-term Survival Without Emergency Surgical Repair Rupture of the le...
To anyone used to watching national and international figure skating competition on t...
Although chlorine gas is a common irritant exposure, little is known about airway res...
Study objective: The cost and inconvenience of polysomnography make simplified techni...
Study objective: Fiberoptic bronchoscopy is the most common modality used to diagnose...
(CHEST 1996; 109:516-34) CFS=cerebrosimal fluid; Pa[co.sub.2]=arterial P[co.sub.2]; P...
Postpneumonectomy syndrome has only been described after a right pneumonectomy except...
Advance directives (Ads) get a lot of attention these days. Federal law, special inte...
Respiratory impairment in myasthenia gravis is usually attributed to weakness of the ...
Study objective: To identify clinical variables of pneumonia in children with acute l...
Hypercalcemia occurs in about 10% of the patients with sarcoidosis; hypercalciuria is...
The postcardiac injury syndrome (PCIS) is characterized by inflammation of the perica...
Strijbos and colleagues, in this issue of CHEST, examine the importance of the site o...
The aim of the study was to evaluate the facilitatory effects of inhaled corticostero...
Background: Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) is the major obstacle to long-ter...
Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate die diagnostic accuracy of...
A review of the literature On reduction pneumoplasty for giant bullous emphysema was ...
Biochemical and cellular characteristics of pleural fluid from two patients with pleu...
Pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure are recognized complications of obstru...
Study objective: It has been reported that therapy with iodinated glycerol (IG) can i...
In November 1990, a lung transplantation program began at the University Hospital in ...
Asbestos-exposed workers (Asb) can sometimes develop lung impairments resembling idio...
Advances in computer technology have permitted development of virtual reality images ...
Dynamic right ventricular outflow tract obstruction (RVOTO) has been reported followi...
Although the surgical treatment of acute thoracic empyema has existed since the days ...
In the context of caring for terminally or critically ill patients, determining the l...
The role of mitral valve reconstruction is controversial in elderly patients with con...
Study objective: To determine the prevalence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunctio...
Aims: To develop an instrument for the measurement of, and to determine the level of,...
Background: The prognosis of patients with pleural mesothelioma is more dependent on ...
Study objective: To assess the effect of 1 year of therapy for sleep apnea syndrome (...
Several studies have suggested that swallowing dysfunction and pulmonary aspiration o...
ACE=angiotensin-converting enzyme; CHF=congestive heart failure; IABP=intra-aortic ba...
Background: At some point in time, many patients with end-stage COPD require intubati...
A 61-year-old man with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy developed acute pulmonary edema 29...
A case is reported on subacute tricuspid regurgitation due to rupture of papillary mu...
The days during which cardiac rehabilitation is perceived solely as exercise rehabili...
We report our combined experience on video-assisted thoracoscopic (VAT) anatomic lung...
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the systematic and pu...
Noninvasive multigated equilibrium radionuclide ventriculography with krypton-81m ([....
Objective: Wheezing is a widely used physical sign of asthma that physicians assess i...
Objective: To investigate if exposure to firewood smoke and other indoor pollutants i...
Objective: To study the relative contribution of the lung and the chest wall on the t...
Study objective: To review experience with pneumococcal bacteremia at two Canadian te...
The purpose of this statement is to find areas of agreement or areas of unresolved di...
A previously healthy 28-year-old man presented with a 4-month history of left scrotal...
Native valve endocarditis normally presents with fever and only later in its course d...
The title of this extraordinary autobiography stems from the elation Francis D. Moore...
There have been myriad attempts to identify reliable, cost-effective, and readily ava...
Study objective: Some patients with chronic heart failure manifest a further increase...
Objectives: To assess the usefulness of transesophageal echocardiography in diagnosin...
Previous studies have suggested that intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1, CD54)...
Studies investigating the relation between respiratory symptoms and change in ventila...
Background: Objective measurement of lung function is considered essential in the man...
Objectives: We have previously reported our experience with noninvasive positive pres...
The progress that is noted in medical science is ultimately linked to the advancement...
A 69-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital owing to unstable angina. Medical hi...
A case of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) associated with fever, heart failure, an...
That thoracoscopy has captured the interest of chest surgeons and pulmonologists is s...
Intermittent pneumatic leg compression is an effective method for preventing postoper...
Intrabronchial capnography was applied in 11 lung cancer patients to investigate the ...
Study objective: To determine the effects of cardiac rehabilitation and exercise trai...
Purpose: The utility of arterial blood gas levels in excluding the diagnosis of acute...
Study objective: To determine whether there has been an increase in the prevalence of...
Objective: The half-moon sign, is defined as a shadow seen on the lateral chest radio...
To investigate the etiology of pleural effusions in our region, we undertook a prospe...
Background: Dopexamine and dobutamine are traditionally described as having primarily...
AAV=adeno-associated virus; Ad=adenovirus; cAMP=cyclic adenosine monophosphate; cDNA=...
Dissemination of lung cancer beyond the intrathoracic lymph nodes (stage IV disease) ...
A 90-year-old man presented with a large right-sided complex pleural effusion 4 month...
This monumental book develops from an internal medicine perspective all areas of crit...
We read interest the article by Yim and colleagues (see page 13) describing their ini...
For many of us who place education at the highest priority, it is difficult concept t...
Study objective: To evaluate the treatment, extent of recovery, and residual disabili...
Study objective: Hyperthyroidism (H) has been implicated as a primary cause of decrea...
Introduction: Pneumatic compression stocking (PCS) devices have been introduced to de...
Study objective: The monitoring of serum concentrations of Cyfra 21-1, tumor polypept...
Purpose: To assess quantitative high-resolution CT (quantitative CT) as a diagnostic ...
The production of cytotoxic oxygen radicals by activated granulocytes is a proposed m...
Snoring has been plaguing the bedpartners and others, forced to listen to a snorer, f...
The promotion of atenolol as a "long-acting" cardioselective beta-blocker has led to ...
We describe the clinical and pathologic findings of the first reported case of pulmon...
Two cases of anomalous systemic arterial supply to the basal segments of the lower lo...
Prompt diagnosis of all patients with myocardial infarction (MI) is an elusive goal. ...
Is More Perfusion Better? The gastrointestinal tract has long been known to be partic...
Background: Women undergo evaluation and treatment for cardiac diseases less frequent...
Study objective: To determine if temperature during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) has ...
A significant minority of patients with COPD have favorable response to corticosteroi...
Objective: Lung transplantation is one of the fastest-growing solid organ tansplant P...
Aim: To describe the thin CT scans findings in AIDS patients with intrathoracic Kapos...
Study objective: To determine whether the development of late-onset ventilator-associ...
Thrombosis of left-sided prosthetic valves is an uncommon yet potentially serious com...
A 56-year-old man presented with a sternotomy wound infection 6 months after coronary...
Clubbing of the fingers is commonly associated with interstitial lung diseases (ILDs)...
A liver transplant recipient in cardiogenic shock from an acute myocardial infarction...
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COPD is characterized by a progressive deterioration of lung function with an [FEV.su...
Revisiting the Folklore Recently, several investigators have confirmed the generally ...