CHEST
(ISSN: 0012-3692, 1931-3543)
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2009 - 136 (4)
- Unify the evaluative procedures and involve peers for increasing use of guidelines in daily practices.
- Does biofilm formation play a role in ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis?
- Exercise-induced bronchospasm: coding and billing for physician services.
- Chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis or invasive pulmonary aspergillosis.
- Carriage classification of pneumonia rather than time improves survival.
- Trees don't grow in the lungs!
- Could fiberoptic bronchoscopy and CT lung scan differentiate ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis from ventilator-associated pneumonia?
- Bronchoscopy in China: the Chinese Society of Respiratory Diseases Survey.
- Flawed comparative groups lead to flawed conclusions.
- Predictors of success in pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with interstitial lung disease.
- Longitudinal assessment of spirometry in World Trade Center responders.
- Pulmonary venoocclusive disease and failure of specific therapy.
- Dangers in using translated medical questionnaires: the importance of conceptual equivalence across languages and cultures in patient-reported outcome measures.
- A 45-year-old man with a history of hepatitis C and testicular cancer presents with cavitary lung lesions and palpable purpura.
- A 27-year-old man with pleuritic chest pain and hemoptysis after a rugby game.
- A 67-year-old woman with a remote history of breast cancer who presents with dyspnea and chest pain.
- Interventional management of pleural infections.
- Pseudochylothorax without pleural thickening: time to reconsider pathogenesis?
- Low-dose urokinase in massive pulmonary embolism when standard thrombolysis is contraindicated.
- Design and measurement of quality improvement indicators in ambulatory pulmonary care: creating a "culture of quality" in an academic pulmonary division.
- The intersection of risk and benefit: is warfarin anticoagulation suitable for atrial fibrillation in patients on hemodialysis?
- Antibiotic resistance in community-acquired pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and Acinetobacter baumannii.
- Histologic considerations for individualized systemic therapy approaches for the management of non-small cell lung cancer.
- Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitides and respiratory disease.
- Molecular mechanisms of combination therapy with inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting beta-agonists.
- A-lines and B-lines: lung ultrasound as a bedside tool for predicting pulmonary artery occlusion pressure in the critically ill.
- Counterpoint: The Texas advance directives act is ethically flawed: medical futility disputes must be resolved by a fair process.
- Nutritional support is maintained: case report.
- Point: The Texas advance directives act effectively and ethically resolves disputes about medical futility.
- Improving access to specialty care for chronic cough.
- The patient-ventilator interaction has a third player: the endotracheal tube.
- Keeping the workplace safe in troubled times.
- Filling the heart failure management void with positive airway pressure.
- Medical uncertainty: informing decision making for patients with acute pulmonary embolism.
- Medical questionnaires are copyrighted to ensure that validity is maintained.
- Safety and efficacy of combined long-acting beta-agonists and inhaled corticosteroids vs long-acting beta-agonists monotherapy for stable COPD: a systematic review.
- Obesity-asthma association: is it explained by systemic oxidant stress?
- Racial and ethnic disparities in asthma medication usage and health-care utilization: data from the national asthma survey.
- In-hospital treatment of obstructive sleep apnea during decompensation of heart failure.
- The metabolic syndrome in patients with chronic bronchitis and COPD: frequency and associated consequences for systemic inflammation and physical inactivity.
- Recent trends in clinical outcomes and resource utilization for pulmonary embolism in the United States: findings from the nationwide inpatient sample.
- Troponin-based risk stratification of patients with acute nonmassive pulmonary embolism: systematic review and metaanalysis.
- Minor salivary gland biopsy to detect primary Sjogren syndrome in patients with interstitial lung disease.
- Leukotriene B4 contributes to exhaled breath condensate and sputum neutrophil chemotaxis in COPD.
- Exhaled air dispersion distances during noninvasive ventilation via different respironics face masks.
- How frequently should workplace spirometry screening be performed?: optimization via analytic models.
- Increases in endotracheal tube resistance are unpredictable relative to duration of intubation.
- Predictors of short-term rehospitalization following discharge of patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia.
- Effect of the management of patients with chronic cough by pulmonologists and certified respiratory educators on quality of life: a randomized trial.
