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Ann Intern Med -- Table of Contents (February 15 2005, 142 [
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Abstract | Full Text | PDF Updates Update in Pulmonary Diseases Martin J. Tobin This year's Update in Pulmonary Diseases incorporates articles on mechanical ventilation, obstructive lung disease, and pulmonaryinfection. Full Text | PDF Reviews Narrative Review: Celiac Disease: Understanding a Complex Autoimmune Disorder Armin Alaedini and Peter....
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Update
Update in Pulmonary Diseases 283
M.J. Tobin
This year’s Update in Pulmonary Diseases incorporates
articles on mechanical ventilation, obstructive lung disease,
and pulmonaryinfection.
Review
Narrative Review: Celiac Disease: Understanding a
Complex Autoimmune Disorder
289
A. Alaedini and P.H.R. Green
This review discusses...
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Incidence and Clinical Implications of Isolation of Mycobact
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A possible association with poverty suggests mechanisms of transmission and requires further study. Mycobacterium kansasii , a nontuberculous mycobacterium, causes pulmonary disease that is indistinguishable from M. tuberculosis infection in immunocompetent persons. Before the AIDS epidemic, M. kansasii was a relatively infrequent pathogen [1] : In...
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Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in 267 Patients with Severe
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Hong Kong hospital found that most of the 227 patients with laboratory-confirmed SARS presented with fever (99%), chills (75%), myalgia (50%), pulmonary infiltrates (95%), and lymphopenia (70%). Some had cough (40%), shortness of breath (20%), and rales (20%). During hospitalization, half Glass, K. Subbarao, B. Murphy, and P. M. Murphy Mechanisms ...
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Incidence of and Risk Factors for Ventilator-Associated Pneu
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Pneumonia was classified by using five methods: adjudication committee, bedside clinician's diagnosis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention definition, Clinical PulmonaryInfection score, and positive culture from bronchoalveolar lavage or protected specimen brush. Results: 177 of 1014 patients (17.5%) developed ventilator-associated in char...
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Continuous Aspiration of Subglottic Secretions in Preventing
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Several strategies, such as infection-control measures (for example, hand-washing) [15, 16] , preservation of a normal gastric pH, or topical administration of a leukocytes/mm 3 ) or leukopenia (<4000 leukocytes/mm 3 ), purulent secretions, and the presence of new and persistent pulmonary infiltrates. The diagnosis of pneumonia was confirmed by a....
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Incidence of and Risk Factors for Ventilator-Associated Pneu
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Pneumonia was classified by using five methods: adjudication committee, bedside clinician's diagnosis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention definition, Clinical PulmonaryInfection score, and positive culture from bronchoalveolar lavage or protected specimen brush. Results: 177 of 1014 patients (17.5%) developed ventilator-associated J. Chri...
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Incidence and Clinical Implications of Isolation of Mycobact
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Ninety-four percent of cases were from respiratory isolates, and 87.5% of patients had evidence of infection. Persons with HIV infection differed from those without HIV infection with respect to mycobacteremia (9.6% compared with 0%; P = 0.001), need for hospitalization (77.4% compared with 51.9 Baum, R. Priess, A. Lavy, A. B.-G. Shitrit, M. Raz, ...
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Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Patients with Leukemia: First Si
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Computed tomographic scanning can reveal peripheral pulmonary lesions that are not detected by chest roentgenography. In recent years, pulmonary fungal infections have been increasingly reported in neutropenic patients with hematologic malignancies [1, 2] . Usually, roentgenographic findings do not provide any clues to observed two patients with.....
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Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in 267 Patients with Severe
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What did the researchers find? Laboratory tests confirmed coronavirus infection in 227 of the 267 patients with suspected SARS. Most of these patients had presented with fever (99 that showed features similar to pneumonia. Many had had low numbers of blood cells that make antibodies and fight infection (lymphocytes). During hospitalization, about....
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Endoscopic Ligation Compared with Sclerotherapy for Treatmen
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10 [CI, 0.03 to 0.29]), but no significant differences were seen between treatments for pulmonary infections or bacterial peritonitis. Additionally, the number of endoscopic treatment sessions required to achieve variceal obliteration was lower with...
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Pleural Effusions in Hospitalized Patients with AIDS -- Jose
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View this table: [in this window] [in a new window] Table. SI Unit and Abbreviation Pulmonary disease is common in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and is predominantly caused by opportunistic infections [1] . Pleural effusions can radiographic results, and response to treatment; hypoalbuminemia, when patients had serum albumin...
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Plasma Level of a Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid C
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Can TREM-1 help distinguish sepsis from the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) without infection? Contribution In this prospective study, 76 critically ill adults with suspected infection had plasma TREM-1 levels measured with a rapid immunoblot technique. Thirty-eight percent of the adults had SIRS, and hospital in France between...
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Ganciclovir Prophylaxis To Prevent Cytomegalovirus Disease a
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All patients who began to excrete virus were removed from the study and treated with ganciclovir [11] . Viral infection was defined as recovery of virus from the throat, urine, or blood. Disease caused by CMV was defined as recovery of site (lung, gastrointestinal tissue) or by bronchoalveolar lavage in patients who had associated signs...
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Fluconazole Therapy for Coccidioidal Meningitis -- Galgiani
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Conclusion: Fluconazole therapy is often effective in suppressing coccidioidal meningitis. Meningitis is the most serious complication of infection with Coccidioides immitis and is nearly always fatal if untreated [1-5] . The only established therapy entails frequent administration of had received only 0.16 and 2.35 mg intrathecal amphotericin...
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Preventing the Nosocomial Transmission of Tuberculosis -- Bl
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1) tuberculosis exposure episodes [that is, the number of patients with acid-fast bacilli smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis not admitted into respiratory isolation at hospital admission] and 2) tuberculin skin test results of health care workers at our We measured two aspects of health care worker exposure to tuberculosis before and during...
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Risk Factors for Methotrexate-Induced Lung Injury in Patient
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Moreover, methotrexate-induced lung injury, rheumatoid lung, and pulmonaryinfection may be difficult to distinguish on clinical grounds alone [31-45] . We thus did a multicenter casecontrol study to to have methotrexate-induced lung injury. View this table: [in this window] [in a new window] Table 1. Adverse Pulmonary Events Resulting from...
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Increased Rate of Fractures and Severe Kyphosis: Sequelae of
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...the greatest cause of illness and death in patients with cystic fibrosis, improved therapy for chronic pulmonaryinfection has markedly extended life expectancy and has led to the discovery of myriad other problems that afflict these...
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An Algorithmic Approach to Chronic Cough -- Pratter et al. 1
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Design: Prospective trial using an algorithm for chronic cough in immunocompetent nonsmoking outpatients. Setting: University-based pulmonary practice. Patients: Forty-five patients met the inclusion criteria. The mean duration of cough was 140 weeks (range, 3 in cough. Methods Top Methods Results Discussion Author & Article Info References...
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