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- Objectives: To compare the acceptability, reproducibility, and sensitivity of spirome...
- Study objectives: To establish a novel method allowing detection of regional abnormal...
- Study objectives: Despite the widespread use of lung scanning and angiography, pulmon...
- A 66-year, old man presented to the emergency department with a history of increasing...
- Purpose: This study investigated the association of COPD and postoperative cardiac ar...
- Study objectives: To validate lung diffusing capacity for nitric oxide (DLNO) as an i...
- Study objectives: Cigarette smoking is common in asthmatic patients, and we investiga...
- Study objectives: To evaluate the predictive value of microalbuminuria in the develop...
- A 55-year-old woman with pulmonary fibrosis underwent an uncomplicated right single-l...
- We identified 16 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of methods for weaning patients ...
- Low systemic vascular resistance (SVR) commonly occurs during and early after cardiop...
- Study objective: To evaluate the accuracy of positron emission tomography (PET) in de...
- Study objectives: Validation of test-shortening procedures for the 2-min tidal breath...
- Objective: To assess the prevalence of insomnia symptoms in patients with objectively...
- Study objective: To describe the clinical course, complications, and prognostic facto...
- Nosocomial infections (NIs) now concern 5 to 15% of hospitalized patients and can lea...
- In the current surgical literature, numerous attempts at identifying predictors of po...
- Study objectives: Pleural fluid cytology and non-image-guided Abrams or Cope biopsies...
- Objective: To determine the correlates of the lability of peak expiratory flow (PEF) ...
- Study objective: To determine the prevalence of sleep-related breathing disturbances ...
- Study objectives: To assess the characteristics and outcomes of patients admitted to ...
- A right-to-left shunt (RLS) is an uncommon complication of a patent foramen ovale (PF...
- We identified 10 randomized trials that compared alternative management approaches to...
- In Canada throughout the 1990s, inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) have been the treatment...
- Study objectives: We evaluated the effects on pulmonary function of irradiating lung ...
- Study objective: The impact of stable, chronic heart failure on baseline pulmonary fu...
- Study objectives: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common occurrence after cardiac surge...
- Objectives: To determine whether secondhand smoke (SHS) induces pulmonary artery endo...
- Intrathoracic splenosis is a rare diagnosis that is usually made following an invasiv...
- Health-care professionals (HCPs) can provide protocol-based care that has a measurabl...
- The diagnosis of asthma is usually made after careful consideration of a patient's in...
- Study objectives: To evaluate the palliative benefit of stent insertion in a group of...
- Objective: This study demonstrates the value of Mycobacterium tuberculosis fingerprin...
- Study objectives: We examined whether autonomic functions assessed by heart rate vari...
- Study objectives: The diagnosis of alveolar hemorrhage is assisted by the presence of...
- Pulmonary barotrauma of descent (lung squeeze) has been described in breath-hold dive...
- We identified three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that addressed whether preext...
- For some, there is nothing more thrilling than watching an old black-and-white movie ...
- Background: Sputum induction by hypertonic saline solution inhalation is widely used ...
- Background: Infection is the second-leading cause of death among patients with end-st...
- Study objectives: To define the clinical profile of young adults with optimal low-den...
- The current therapy for community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections is ofte...
- Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is an uncommon autosomal dominant disorder ...
- In contrast to primarily deductive quantitative research, qualitative research aims t...
- In this issue of CHEST (see page 1923), Krakow et al examine the prevalence of sympto...
- Cysteinyl leukotrienes (LTs) and thromboxane (TX)As are metabolites of arachidonic ac...
- Study objectives: To determine whether the spectrum of HIV-related pulmonary disease ...
- Study objective: To assess the effect of coronary flow to the infarct zone before pri...
- There is extensive experimental evidence from in vitro and animal experiments that co...
- A 27-year-old patient with cystic fibrosis underwent a bilateral lung transplantation...
- Weaning techniques include spontaneous breathing trials (SBTs), pressure-support vent...
- Predicting patient outcome is an important component of patient care in critical care...
- Background: Inhaled corticosteroids have the potential to produce upper-airway side e...
- Study objectives: To assess the efficacy and complications of different interventiona...
- Objectives: To identify and characterize cases of potentially preventable venous thro...
- Study objectives: In dyspneic patients without left ventricular enlargement, it may b...
- The use of Swan-Ganz catheters has increased tremendously since they were first intro...
- Tracheotomy is commonly performed in ventilator-dependent patients. Disadvantages to ...
- Intensive care management of status asthmaticus has advanced in recent years. Knowled...
- Objective: To compare the functional benefits and relative costs of administering an ...
- Study objective: To determine the usefulness of high-resolution three-dimensional (3D...
- Objective: To examine the relationship between sublingual PC[O.sub.2] (PslC[O.sub.2])...
- Study objectives: To determine whether pulse oximetry accurately estimates arterial b...
- Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium endocarditis is rare and usually occurs in ...
- Study objectives: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common disorder that is characte...
- Study objectives: To investigate changes in the cerebral metabolism of patients with ...
- Study objectives: It is well-recognized that the risk of lung cancer declines after s...
- Study objective: TX[A.sub.2] (thromboxane [A.sub.2]) is a lipid mediator believed to ...
- Study objectives: To determine the effectiveness of a cotinine-feedback, behaviorally...
- Study objectives: This study was designed to evaluate sleep-related disordered breath...
- Study objectives: To investigate the characteristics of tuberculosis infection in dia...
- Objective: Different types of multimodality therapy, including chemoradiotherapy and ...
- Study objectives: The present study introduces a method that has been developed to im...
- (CHEST 2001; 120:1723-1724)
You have been asked to assist in the ventilatory manage...
- Objectives: To examine the prevalence and nature of craniofacial abnormalities in pat...
- Study objective: The standard daily dose of rifampin in directly observed treatment o...
- Study objective: To provide current data on the long-term outcome and incidence of lu...
- Study objectives: In adults, arterial blood samples are usually drawn using plastic s...
- (CHEST 2001; 120:1725-1727)
A 57-year-old man presented with cough, purulent blood-...
- Background: Asthma and rhinosinusitis are common medical conditions among adults. Alt...
- Study objectives: The differential diagnosis of syndrome X and coronary artery diseas...
- Study objective: We assessed whether transpleural methods for diagnosing peripheral l...
- Objectives: We tested the hypothesis that an increase in the blood colloid osmotic pr...
- (CHEST 2001; 120:1728-I 731)
A 27-year-old man presented with a 2-day history of wo...
- To the Editor:
We read with interest the report by Guerrero and colleagues (March 2...
- Lessons To Be Learned From the Differences Between the Sexes
John Gray's famous boo...
- Background: It is not certain whether inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy reduces bo...
- Study objectives: To evaluate dipyridamole stress echocardiography (DSE) for predicti...
- Objective: Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) triggers systemic inflammation. Recent eviden...
- Study objectives: Because efforts to secure adequate arterial oxygenation during card...
- A 39-year-old man with AIDS presented with acute respiratory distress and diffuse bil...
- Reason For Concern?
In this issue of CHEST (see page 1461), Blanc et al report the ...
- Study objective: [[beta].sub.2]-Adrenoceptor Gly16 polymorphism has been associated w...
- Study objectives: The majority of thrombolysis studies require defined ST-segment ele...
- Study objectives: To examine whether relative hypoperfusion to the apical one third o...
- Study objectives: To determine the optimal method of delivering supplemental oxygen d...
- Pulmonary hypertension (PH) with right-sided cardiac failure is a rare complication o...
- Background: Multi-dose dry-powder inhalers are perceived as being easier for patients...
- Study objectives: We tested the hypothesis that breathing 100% oxygen could result in...
- Study objectives: To describe the prognostic factors, clinical course, and outcome of...
- Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a serious medical condition frequently associated w...
- A 37-year-old man who had an atrial septal defect (ASD) corrected as an infant was fo...
- In most studies on the subject, persons with diabetes mellitus (DM) have a twofold to...
- Study objectives: Increasing morbidity due to asthma and antimicrobial resistance amo...
- Background: Pulmonary magnetic resonance angiography (PMRA) has been proven to be acc...
- Study objectives: To examine clinicians' approaches to mechanical ventilation in pati...
- Acute pulmonary edema has been associated with cold-water immersion in swimmers and d...
- A 34-year-old white man was admitted to the hospital for progressive respiratory diff...
- Despite the best efforts of clinicians to limit coronary angiography to symptomatic p...
- Study objectives: To assess the frequencies of three polymorphisms at amino acid posi...
- Study objectives: Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) is a rare disease of unknown e...
- Study objectives: To examine the current clinical spectrum of noncardiogenic pulmonar...
- (CHEST 2001; 120:1695-1701)
Key words: antitumoral chemotherapy; ARDS; cancer patie...
- A case is presented in which the insertion of a pulmonary artery catheter was complic...
- Major surgery under general anesthesia poses a significant stress to the cardiopulmon...
- Objectives: The possibility that a bronchial inflammatory process could be involved w...
- Objectives: During or after surgery, asthma attacks due to airway hyperresponsiveness...
- Study objectives. To examine predictors of sleep-disordered breathing in patients wit...
- Objectives: (1) To determine the validity of current recommendations for direct arter...
- We report the first use of a new wire-guided endobronchial blocker in a critical resp...
- Each year, despite a wide and efficient array of asthma treatments, patients with ast...
- Study objective: The purpose of the meta-analysis was to understand the antitussive e...
- Study objectives: Albuterol, a [[beta].sub.2]-adrenergic agonist that is commonly use...
- Study objectives: End-stage lung disease is associated with poor quality of life and ...
- Background: The ability of conventional CT scans and fiberoptic bronchoscopy to local...
- Endobronchial foreign bodies are often difficult to diagnose as the cause of obstruct...
- ENDOBRONCHIAL STENT PLACEMENT FOR TREATMENT OF LEFT POSTPNEUMONECTOMY SYNDROME
Intr...
- Determining readiness for liberation from mechanical ventilation (weaning) and the op...
- Study objectives: To assess the roles of poor access to care, psychological risk fact...
- Objective: To describe 13 neurologically normal infants with chronic respiratory symp...
- Study objective: To compare the efficacy and safety of ipratropium bromide reformulat...
- Background: In the airline industry, training is costly and operator error must be av...
- Most extramedullary plasmacytomas are associated with the upper respiratory tract. Pr...
- Study objective: To measure the ability of a set of clinical parameters, the Winthrop...
- Background: Airway inflammation is important in the development and progression of as...
- Objective: In patients with acute myocardial infarctions (MIs), cholesterol levels ar...
- Background: After patients recovering from respiratory failure have successfully comp...
- Aortic intramural hematoma (IMH) is related to but is pathologically distinct from ao...
- We report three cases of pulmonary edema associated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, i...
- Study objectives: To investigate the clinical, epidemiologic, and microbiological cha...
- Study objective: Many children with asthma go into long-term clinical remission at ad...
- Study objectives: To assess the prognostic value of dobutamine-atropine stress echoca...
- Study objectives: To determine the incidence of systemic inflammatory response syndro...
- Improved understanding of the pathogenesis of acute lung injury (ALI)/ARDS has led to...
- Complete occlusion (CO) of the left main coronary artery (LMCA) is a rare but often f...
- Study objectives: To evaluate the frequency and diagnostic significance of alveolar h...
- Study objective: Thoracotomy, sternotomy, and upper abdominal laparotomy are associat...
- Background: The time required for oxygen uptake (V[O.sub.2]) to return to baseline le...
- Study objectives: Patients experiencing prolonged periods of in-hospital mechanical v...
- (CHEST 2001; 120.1368-1371)
Key words: earliest illustration; historical article; h...
- Angina is a common symptom of severe pulmonary hypertension. Although many theories f...
- Anecdotal reports of venous thromboembolism (VTE) associated with air travel have bee...
- Objectives: Lyophyllum aggregatum (LA) is called Shimeji in Japanese and is eaten com...
- Study objectives: To identify the impact of upright and supine spirometry (USS) on th...
- Background: Although acute left main coronary artery (LMCA) occlusion is a rare clini...
- Objective: To determine the value of contrast echocardiographic studies in patients a...
- (CHEST 2001; 120:1372-1376)
A 12-year-old white girl was referred for the evaluatio...
- Coronary artery-left ventricular (LV) fistulas are extremely rare and can cause myoca...
- In the January 2001 supplement Sixth ACCP Consensus Conference on Antithrombotic Ther...
- Legionella is a relatively common cause of pneumonia. In patients with community-acqu...
- Study objectives: Pulmonary complications occur in half of allogeneic bone marrow tra...
- Study objectives: Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) for emphysema has a variable e...
- Background: Muscle capillary P[O.sub.2] has been found to reach a minimal value, ie, ...
- Study objective: Several lung diseases are characterized by the presence of increased...
- Most clinicians believe that any device that is marketed as a "bacterial/viral filter...
- Perioperative graft failure after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) can result in a...
- Even with extensive diagnostic regimens, most studies of community-acquired pneumonia...
- Study objectives: Our current knowledge of pediatric bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) is...
- Study objective: To make a descriptive analysis of the frequency and the type of thor...
- Study objectives: To evaluate and to correlate endothelial cell dysfunction, using re...
- Background: Systemic capillary leak syndrome (SCLS) is a rare disorder of unknown eti...
- (CHEST 2001; 120:1390-1393)
Key words: activated protein C; antimicrobial; bacterem...
- Ambient air contains variable amounts of respirable foreign substances. Some of these...
- Background: The aim of this pilot study was to determine whether measuring sputum dif...
- Objective: To determine the optimal administered dose of meta-tetrahydroxyphenylchlor...
- Objective: To identify the spectrum of respiratory disturbances during sleep in patie...
- Study objectives: A novel method for acoustic imaging of the human respiratory system...
- (CHEST 2001; 120:1394-1398)
A 48-year-old man with end-stage renal disease due to b...
- Science and Hocus-Pocus
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most important...
- A Long-term Follow-up Analysis
Objective: To evaluate the diagnostic and prognostic...
- Association With Cardiovascular Morbidity
Objectives: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)...
- Justification of Methods and Goals of Treatment
Dyslipidemia is a major risk factor...
- In this case report, we describe a patient with a history of fallopian tube adenocarc...
- Study objective: To examine the relationship between the duration of the preoperative...
- Background: Some of the disagreements on the perception of dyspnea (PD) during bronch...
- A Comparison With Younger Patients
Study objectives: Atrial fibrillation (AF) becom...
- Objectives: To explore the effect of using different scoring criteria for hypopneas i...
- Vasopressin is emerging as a rational therapy for the hemodynamic support of septic s...
- To the Editor:
I read with interest the article of Affrime et al (December 2000),[1...
- In the January 2001 supplement Sixth ACCP Consensus Conference on Antithrombotic Ther...
- Theoretically, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene replac...
- Objective: To examine if exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) during childho...
- Background: Low participation limits the effectiveness of patient education intervent...
- Study objectives: Collapse therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis involved placement of v...
- Study objective: To investigate whether protein C levels predict 30-day mortality rat...
- Results From [is greater than] 6,000 Consecutive Referred Male Patients
Objective: ...
- Data From the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Study objectiv...
- Background: Little is known about factors determining the pathogenesis and severity o...
- Relationship With Preoperative Exercise Testing
Study objectives: To evaluate the i...