Persistent hypoxemia after an asthma attack

Persistent cognitive impairment after transient ischemic attack.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE By definition, the symptoms of a transient ischemic attack (TIA) subside completely within 24 hours. Imaging studies show signs of persistent ischemic tissue damage in a substantial amount of patients with TIA. Cerebral infarction can cause permanent cognitive impairment. Whether permanent cognitive impairment occurs after TIA is unclear, as is its profile. METHODS Pati...

Managing Persistent Hypoxemia: what is new?

Mechanical ventilation is the standard life-support technique for patients with severe acute respiratory failure. However, some patients develop persistent and refractory hypoxemia because their lungs are so severely damaged that they are unable to respond to the application of high inspired oxygen concentration and high levels of positive end-expiratory pressure. In this article, we review cur...

How to treat an asthma attack.

What are the symptoms? You may have any of the following: • Shortness of breath, trouble breathing, or fast breathing • Trouble doing normal activities, such as exercising, playing sports, or doing chores that involve lifting • Trouble talking • Fingers or lips turning blue or gray • A peak flow rate (how fast you can blow air out of your lungs) less than 80 percent of your personal best • Tigh...

The attack of asthma.

We developed Tilescope, a fully integrated data processing pipeline for analyzing high-density tilingarray data http://tilescope.gersteinlab.org. In a completely automated fashion, Tilescope will normalize signals between channels and across arrays, combine replicate experiments, score each array element, and identify genomic features. The program is designed with a modular, three-tiered archit...

Persistent asthma after accidental exposure to ethylene oxide.