Showing papers in "Chest in 1976"

TL;DR: It is concluded that pulmonary lesions occur in Sjogren's syndrome more frequently than previously reported.

TL;DR: From approximately 48,000 procedures, ten deaths were reported and are described: all patients who died had either myocardial disease, severe chronic pulmonary disease, serious pneumonia, or cancer.

TL;DR: Observations and other cited evidence are supportive of the concept that repeated, small tracheobronchial aspirations of gastric acid secretions over a long period of time may cause interstitial pulmonary fibrosis.

TL;DR: Bronchial washings and postbronchoscopic sputum specimens did not add significantly to diagnostic yield, and it is concluded that they should no longer be part of the diagnostic procedures routinely ordered.

TL;DR: Hospital records of 91 consecutive near-drowning victims were studied retrospectively, and Observations on these patients are discussed in light of previous experiments in animals, and an approach to therapy is suggested.

TL;DR: In a prospective study, 11 patients out of 742 patients had angiographically proven coronary artery aneurysms, and these 11 cases plus the 23 previously reported ante mortem form the total reported in world literature.

TL;DR: For the first time the superiority of the ultrasonic method over the radiologic one was demonstrated, and the difference was most obvious in cases of small pleural effusion.

TL;DR: A new "wedge" method of transbronchial forceps biopsy is now being utilized in the bronchoscopic unit, and the tip of the flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope is lodged into the appropriate segmental bronchus to tamponade any bleeding and prevent blood from flooding the airway.

TL;DR: The pH and carbon dioxide tension were measured in 24 consecutive parapneumonic effusions, along with the leukocyte count, leukocytic differential count, and levels of glucose and protein, and the pH of the pleural fluid alone separated the empyemas and loculated effusions from benign effusions.

TL;DR: The only symptoms in this 24-year-old woman patient were those of recurrent nasal obstruction, including mucosal ulcerations, edema, and thick secretions within the nose.

TL;DR: Inhalation therapy in addition to oral therapy improved bronchodilation without causing resistance and resistance developed in skeletal muscles with decreased tremor and in cardiac beta-adrenergic receptors.

TL;DR: Impaired LVEF in coronary arterial disease is associated with myocardial infarction, and RVEF is relatively preserved except in multiple-vessel disease and my Cardiac Infarction and in association with impaired LVEf.

TL;DR: The value of this technique without tracheal intubation was investigated in 14 patients with acute respiratory distress, and in most patients (eight patients, or 57 percent) the technique was successful, as evidenced by avoidance of the necessity forTracheal Intubation and improvements in clinical appearance, arterial oxygen pressure, and chest x-ray films.

TL;DR: Symptoms of household members, especially children, are related to smoking habits within the households but are not significantly so when symptoms in adults are controlled.

TL;DR: In this paper, vascular changes in the coronary arteries and intramyocardial arteries and arteriole were studied in 1,056 men in relation to the effects of cigarette smoking and to age.

TL;DR: Echocardiographic findings in seven patients with infiltrative cardiomyopathy due to amyloid should suggest infiltrative heart failure in a patient with congestive heart failure.

TL;DR: Flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopic examination with systematic bronchial lavage was performed in patients with massive hemoptysis, finding the technique is rapid, simple, and effective in controlling life-threatening hemopTYsis in patients who are unsuitable for resection due to inadequate pulmonary reserve or other causes.

TL;DR: It is indicated that ST-segment depression occurs more commonly in the absence than in the presence of chest pain and that ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring is a useful method of determining the frequency of myocardial ischemia during normal daily activity.

TL;DR: After a mean follow-up of 32 months, the mortality in the medically treated groups was 46 percent with intermediate syndrome and 7% with progressive angina, and the incidence of myocardial infarction was 38 percent and 7 percent, respectively.

TL;DR: The esophageal obturator airway is a useful adjunct during cardiopulmonary resuscitation when endotracheal intubation is not feasible, and it is concluded that the failures to oxygenate were not due to the EOA.

TL;DR: Six young women who had taken progestational agents for a period of time ranging from six months to five years developed symptoms and signs of pulmonary hypertension, and cardiac catheterization confirmed the presence of severe pulmonary hypertension.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the increased severity of coronary arterial disease in diabetic patients is not attributable to age, duration of symptoms, hypertension, type -4 hyperlipoproteinemia, or apparent severity of the glucose intolerance.

TL;DR: Open pulmonary biopsy remains the diagnostic method of choice in diffuse lung disease of undetermined etiology in open pulmonary biopsies through limited thoracotomies.

TL;DR: Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease might well be a syndrome rather than an etiologic entity and the possibility has to be considered that this may be elicited by a virus in some patients and by toxic factors or by clotting disorders in others.

TL;DR: This case illustrates the difficulties in distinguishing between atherosclerosis and arteritis using a single coronary angiographic study because of the different therapeutic interventions required.

TL;DR: The technique may be utilized for biopsy of peripheral pulmonary masses in contact with the chest wall, in order to assure accurate placement of the needle in the center of the mass, reduce the risk of pneumothorax, and eliminate the exposure to radiation that occurs with fluoroscopic guidance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed 179 patients who had undergone thoracotomy and resection of a suspected malignant coin lesion of the lung over the past 20 years to see if a policy of early thoracotomization was therapeutically valid.