Inappropriate mode switching clarified by using a chest radiograph

Letter to the Editor: Marino et al. Inappropriate mode switching clarified by using a chest radiograph

To the Editor, I read with great interest the article by Marino et al. entitled “Inappropriate mode switching clarified by using a chest radiograph.” [1]. The authors have explained a case of dual-chamber pacemaker malfunction, caused by intermittent high-frequency noises. They claimed that this happened because of lead–lead interaction caused by excess slack of atrial and ventricular leads. In...

An abnormal chest radiograph.

Volume 90, Number 1 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 47 A 24-year-old asymptomatic man requested a chest radiograph for routine tuberculosis screening. He did not have difficulty breathing, palpitations, chest pain, or edema. His medical history was significant for scoliosis and Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, a rare genetic condition that causes short stature, broad thumbs and toes, hirsu...

The Chest Radiograph

The chest radiograph accounts for a very significant proportion of imaging throughout the world. It often represents the first imaging step, not only in diseases that focus on the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, but in systemic illness. For this reason, its ubiquity can be beguiling. There is an inclination to feel that because one grows up with the chest radiograph, there must be an in...

A Graphical Method of Detecting Pneumonia Using Chest Radiograph

An important ingredient of health care is the correct initial diagnosis of chest ailments using images of chest radiograph. This paper develops a simple graphical method to aid the initial screening and discrimination of pneumonia patients (PNEU) from pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients, lung cancer (LC) patients and normal healthy individuals (NL). Approximate confidence regions using princi...

Chest discomfort and abnormal chest radiograph.