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1. While subtitled "basic techniques and exposures," this atlas will serve as more than ...
2. I do not like to write about things I do not understand, but that is the whole point ...
3. Endobronchial manifestations of HIV infection are rare. The endobronchial appearance...
4. To further assess the clinical significance of asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis, we ...
5. This retrospective chart review describes the efficacy and safety of long-term admini...
6. Histamine challenge testing is used to measure airway responsiveness in asthma. Hist...
7. Several commercially available spirometers use unheated ceramic elements as flow sens...
8. Patterns of Response and Predictors of Outcome Pulmonary fibroproliferation (PFP) i...
9. The patient was a 72-year-old man with a superior mediastinal, paratracheal mass that...
10. Two cases of pulmonary plasma cell granuloma that progressed after respiratory infect...
11. We report the first case, to our knowledge, of sarcoidosis affecting the middle ear. ...
12. A 65-year-old woman with previously known rheumatoid arthritis and chronic renal fail...
13. Eosinophilic pulmonary infiltration is an uncommon presentation from cocaine abuse. ...
14. The value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the evaluation of vascular abnormali...
15. This first of two volumes devoted to the imaging of cardiac disorders is focused prim...
16. Unproven Accuracy, Untested Assumptions, and Unready for Routine Use To the casual ...
17. Alveolar macrophages (AMs) harvested from 32 HIV-infected patients with respiratory p...
18. The purpose of this investigation was to determine right ventricular function during ...
19. We have investigated pulmonary hemodynamics in 16 patients with COPD with respiratory...
20. Combination bronchodilator therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) i...
21. Study objective: To evaluate the effects of nebulized ipratropium bromide on intraoc...
22. To better characterize idiopathic eosinophilic pneumonia (IEP), we studied the clinic...
23. A prospective study of 132 patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) tr...
24. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is the clinical relationship between hepatic dysfunction and...
25. A 48-year-old previously healthy woman presented with a 3-week history of blood-tinge...
26. Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown etiology which is characterized pathologically by...
27. We present herein a case of cough-induced nonsustained ventricular tachycardia for wh...
28. A 52-year-old man with intractable cough refractory to standard therapy was treated s...
29. We report a case of an 85-year-old woman who presented with acute respiratory failure...
30. The Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension is divided into two main sectio...
31. Over the last several years, an increasing interest in medical practice patterns has ...
32. A decrease in the number of circulating [CD4.sup.+] T-lymphocytes occurs in subjects ...
33. Late potentials have been reported to be affected by body size or left ventricular ma...
34. Study objective: Assessment of acute and chronic effects of low-dose almitrine bisme...
35. Background: A high proportion of patients admitted to a medical emergency department...
36. The main problem related to the thoracoscopic resection of lung nodules is the diffic...
37. Study objective: To examine the incidence, clinical impact, and predictors of reintu...
38. WHY ARE EXPIRATORY MUSCLE AIDS NEEDED? Adequate expiratory muscle function is criti...
39. Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery provides an alternative to conventional thoracot...
40. A 73-year-old man presented with dyspnea, right-sided pleural effusion, and bilateral...
41. Nine years after receiving a bone marrow transplant for aplastic anemia, a 14-year-ol...
42. Diagnosis of asbestosis and bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma was made in a 55-year-old T...
43. We report a fatal case of acute interstitial pneumonitis in a patient treated with ca...
44. Drs. Engelman and Levitsky, both experts in the discipline of myocardial protection f...
45. Lessons from the Neonatal ICU In the January, 1994 issue of Chest (see page 195), S...
46. Human immunodeficiency virus infection changes the clinical presentation of tuberculo...
47. The systemic pressor effects of angiotensin II (ANGII) are well described, whereas re...
48. In 22 patients (19 men, 3 women; mean [[+ or -] SD] age, 63 [+ or -] 6 years) with ch...
49. Background: Single breath diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (Dco) is commonly u...
50. Practicing physicians are increasingly using life-sustaining devices in the home sett...
51. To evaluate the role of red blood cell (RBC) antioxidants as clinical markers of oxid...
52. Objective: Investigation of the hypothesis that the infusion of 10 ng/kg/min prostac...
53. This study investigated the ability of a protein F vaccine to reduce macroscopic evid...
54. Pulmonary physicians have a significant role in assessing the ability of individuals ...
55. A 49-year-old man presented with an atypical pneumonia entailing an adult respiratory...
56. A 51-year-old man was treated for bilateral pneumothorax secondary to pulmonary metas...
57. Intrapleural instillation of thrombolytic agents has been useful in the treatment of ...
58. Contrast echocardiography produced by peripheral injection of agitated saline solutio...
59. Edited by three experienced and reputed academic vascular surgeons from the United Ki...
60. This text published in 1993 is one of the best available for physicians desiring to l...
61. The article by Despars and colleagues that appears in this issue of Chest (see page 1...
62. To study the effect of nifedipine on aortic distensibility in patients with coronary ...
63. To evaluate the effect of outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation (OPR) on dyspnea, we me...
64. Purpose: To review available clinical trials of selective digestive decontamination ...
65. Background: Acute increases in nasal resistance are known to induce upper airway occ...
66. The precise roles of fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) and computed tomography (CT) of th...
67. Infection rates in the ICU population may increase to 80 percent as the duration of s...
68. A 47-year-old woman who was a nonsmoker was initially referred for laser resection of...
69. A 50-year-old man with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was successfully tr...
70. A 49-year-old man with a history of traumatic left above-elbow amputation was hospita...
71. Calcific embolization from aortic stenosis may be more frequent than commonly appreci...
72. This book, written by a physician and a nurse, could be titled, "Everything You Wante...
73. The Evolution of Cardiac Surgery is the ultimate update of the development of modern ...
74. Hemoptysis is an important and sometime alarming symptom which requires thorough inve...
75. The risks and benefits of three treatment strategies were examined in 64 consecutive ...
76. This study was designed to determine if there is residual airflow obstruction and/or ...
77. To more systematically evaluate the effect of respiratory muscle rest on indices of v...
78. We retrospectively analyzed 198 methacholine inhalation challenges (MICs) of symptoma...
79. This study examined the effect of smoking abstinence on sleep quality, daytime sleepi...
80. In 11 patients with moderately severe multiple sclerosis, lasting 11.2[+ or -]7.3 yea...
81. Objective: To assess the effect of hypermetabolism, dead-space ventilation, and pare...
82. Inadequacy of inspiratory muscle function, whether from primary neuromuscular dysfunc...
83. A 41-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital for obstetric surgery. A preoperati...
84. Unilateral pulmonary edema (UPE) is an unusual clinical condition occurring in left h...
85. Left ventricular (LV) response to chronic pressure overload of aortic stenosis (AS) i...
86. We report the unusual case of a young man with acute respiratory failure caused by a ...
87. We report the case of a woman treated with urokinase for acute pulmonary embolism wit...
88. I find this book to be an excellent review of the recently released Medtronic pacemak...
89. With 105 chapters written by 56 authors covering more than 1,300 pages, this is a tru...
90. Teaching the fundamentals of ventilator care to medical house staff is the most chall...
91. Study objective: To examine changes over time in the utilization of and factors asso...
92. Hypothesis: We hypothesized that high flow transtracheal oxygen (HFTTO) will improve...
93. We describe 12 patients with simultaneous bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax (SBSP). ...
94. The passive relaxation single-breath technique has been used primarily in anesthetize...
95. This prospective study compared two weaning modalities in COPD patients requiring mec...
96. The effect of recombinant human interleukin 1B (IL-1B) and recombinant human gamma in...
97. A 58-year-old man with pleuritic chest pain and an indeterminate lung scan had normal...
98. A 62-year-old woman who underwent an aortic valve replacement for severe aortic valve...
99. Sternal osteomyelitis due to Aspergillus fumigatus after cardiac surgery occurred in ...
100. Primary cutaneous invasive Aspergillus infection at a Hickman catheter site led to ch...
101. The cases of three patients with traumatic quadriplegia who had been treated with che...
102. This book is an ambitious undertaking that deals with much more than the prevention o...
103. In 1984, a young lady named Libby Zion died unexpectedly at the New York Hospital.[1]...
104. When resources are limited, decisions have to be made wisely and intelligently about ...
105. This study was undertaken to determine whether patients with silent ischemia (SI) (a ...
106. To investigate the relationship between circulating leukotriene [E.sub.4] and bronchi...
107. In 42 adults with recurrent respiratory infections (RRI) and common variable immunode...
108. Methacholine, provided by industrial sources, has traditionally been used in studies ...
109. Introduction: Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) is considered a useful procedur...
110. The purpose of this study was to review the cases of iatrogenic pneumothorax that occ...
111. Serum antibodies against five types of phospholipids, antiphospholipid antibodies (aP...
112. Sleep deprivation and fragmentation occurring in the hospital setting may have a nega...
113. A 52-year-old woman was transferred from an outlying hospital where she had been hosp...
114. A 55-year-old man demonstrated typical reflux esophagitis, not esophageal spasm, by e...
115. A 30-year-old woman underwent mitral valvotomy for severe mitral stenosis. Extracorp...
116. The chest wall is an uncommon localization for hydatid cyst. In this article, six pa...
117. The diagnostic value of ultrasonic (US) examinations followed by US-guided needle bio...
118. We present a 16-year-old girl with pulmonary hypertension due to multiple pulmonary a...
119. Psychosocial recovery from a cardiac event is just as important as the physiologic re...
120. This second edition of an already well-received text has been expanded to include the...
121. Interpreting the Synthesized Evidence Similar to the experience accumulated with to...
122. Mortality is high in unrecognized pulmonary embolism (PE), but the diagnosis is diffi...
123. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common cardiac arrhythmias in the adult p...
124. In view of the ubiquitous practice of using bronchodilator responsiveness to determin...
125. Cervical spinal cord injury results in interruption of sympathetic airway innervation...
126. In a retrospective review, a group of seven patients were found to have a sputum cult...
127. Endobronchial biopsy specimens of small-cell carcinoma often exhibit extensive crush ...
128. The aim of this study was to evaluate the cellular and biochemical characteristics of...
129. The proliferation of alarms on equipment in ICUs contributes to a level of noise that...
130. A 33-year-old white man was at his work as an auto mechanic when leaning over a car e...
131. A nonsmoker drill polisher with interstitial lung disease is presented. The environm...
132. This report describes a patient with mucormycosis treated with hyperbaric oxygen ther...
133. A 23-year-old Ethiopian new immigrant presented with a giant lymphangioma extending f...
134. Acute tricuspid insufficiency is an uncommon cause of cardiogenic shock. Previous re...
135. Roger Bone and his four coeditors have produced a two-volume "mega textbook" that rep...
136. Bacterial endotoxins act at picomolar to nanomolar concentrations to stimulate a wide...
137. The histopathology of acute lung injury (ALI) is characterized by alveolar septal thi...
138. Activation of the NADPH-oxidase in neutrophils results in the production of reactive ...
139. Interleukin-8 (IL-8) is the best known representative of a new class of chemotactic c...
140. The extreme thinness of the pulmonary blood-gas barrier has long been recognized. In...
141. Pulmonary edema formation occurs by two mechanisms: increased hydrostatic pressures i...
142. The organizers of the 1993, 36th Annual Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference, G. Sco...
143. Pernicious anemia, expressed as megaloblastic anemia, exists in individuals who fail ...
144. Study objective: To investigate the acute effect of sodium cromoglycate on airway re...
145. In order to assess the role of genetic factors and environmental influences in bronch...
146. To assess the effects of coronary angioplasty in patients with severe left ventricula...
147. Study objective: To show that prolonged survival can be observed after high-dose rat...
148. To assess the hemodynamic effects of pulmonary microvasculature disruption in emphyse...
149. We evaluated the clinical features of 32 patients with pulmonary infections caused by...
150. Fatal pulmonary embolism (PE) is a major cause of mortality in patients with spinal c...
151. Objectives: To evaluate the success and complications of pulmonary artery catheteriz...
152. Three basic pathophysiologic conditions are responsible for the development of heart ...
153. The debut of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) into the medical arena roughly coincide...
154. We report three cases of chronic hepatitis C (HC) with pneumonitis, suspected to be c...
155. Centrally mediated hypoventilation causes respiratory failure without respiratory dis...
156. Dehiscence of the bronchial stump, particularly following pneumonectomy, is one of th...
157. A case of acute reversible pulmonary damage from amiodarone is described. Pulmonary ...
158. Many cardiac drugs improve symptoms, but few improve survival. Angiotensin converting...
159. Pulmonary intravascular macrophages (PIMs) are large mature macrophages that adhere t...
160. The central importance of the alveolar epithelial barrier in both the pathogenesis an...
161. Parenteral interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) or lipopolysaccharide...
162. Neutrophils have been implicated in the pathogenesis of the adult respiratory distres...
163. Inflammatory molecules such as histamine increase endothelial permeability by initiat...
164. Acute lung injury is the rapid disruption of the gas exchange apparatus in response t...
165. I have yet to meet a physician or nurse who knew what the term "guarded condition" me...
166. The incidence of lung cancer continues to increase in the United States as the cumula...
167. Examination was made of the serum levels of interleukin 4 (IL-4), soluble Fc[epsilon]...
168. One hundred twenty patients undergoing coronary artery surgery completed a randomized...
169. Objective: We have studied the usefulness of squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCC Ag...
170. The effect of in vivo and in vitro N-acetylcysteine (NAC) treatment on destructive ac...
171. We have analyzed our experience with 90 consecutive patients who were operated on for...
172. Study objective: To study sequences of colonization of different species of microorg...
173. Pneumatosis intestinalis occurred in a patient with a primary cytomegaloviral (CMV) i...
174. A patient presented with multisystem disease due to a very aggressive malignant thymo...
175. Clinical panhypopituitarism caused by cancer with parasellar metastasis and hypothala...
176. Coronary artery fistulas have been traditionally diagnosed by angiography. This repo...
177. A patient with eosinophilic granuloma, histologically confirmed from open lung biopsy...
178. This book is divided into three major sections. Section 1 covers the general topics ...
179. Despite advances in antibiotic therapy and the care of critically ill patients, morta...
180. Alveoli must be kept free of fluid for effective gas exchange to occur. The alveolar...
181. In a number of animal models and clinical pulmonary diseases of human subjects, inhal...
182. Interleukin-8 (IL-8) is a potent inflammatory mediator in the lung. Alveolar macroph...
183. The marginating pool of blood monocytes normally present in the pulmonary microvascul...
184. The original description of the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in 1967[1]...
185. A growing body of literature has emphasized the role of airway inflammation in the pa...
186. Hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) is an infiltrative disease of eosinophils affecting ...
187. This study evaluated immunoreactivity for several cytokines in bronchial tissue of as...
188. Left atrial appendage (LAA) function and flow patterns in 29 patients with chronic no...
189. Dyspnea after polio can occur for a variety of reasons, including neuromuscular disea...
190. In a retrospective analysis of lower respiratory tract infections in an ex-injection-...
191. Objective: To report functional results and survival in patients undergoing single l...
192. Study objectives: To describe the importance of measuring work of breathing (WOB) in...
193. Diagnosis of Pneumonia Based on Quantitative Cultures Obtained From Protected Brush C...
194. Laboratory and animal investigations Polidocanol was instilled in five pleural cavi...
195. A Recent Experience and Diagnostic Value of Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging Shor...
196. Background: We report a dramatic case of factitious hemoptysis in a 36-year-old blac...
197. Endobronchial streptokinase has been used previously to dissolve blood clots caused b...
198. A 14-year-old obese male patient presented following a motor vehicle accident with mu...
199. We describe a patient who presented with a history of unexplained exertional dyspnea ...