Meconium aspiration syndrome causes respiratory failure after birth and in vivo monitoring of pulmonary edema is difficult. The objective of the present study was to assess hemodynamic changes and edema measured by transcardiopulmonary thermodilution in low weight newborn piglets. Additionally, the effect of early administration of sildenafil (2 mg/kg vo, 30 min after meconium aspiration) on th...

PURPOSE To analyze the clinical features of foreign-body aspiration into the lower airway in geriatric patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS The clinical data of 17 geriatric patients with foreign-body aspiration were retrospectively analyzed and compared with 26 nongeriatric adult patients. The data were collected from Peking University First Hospital and Anhui Chest Hospital between January 2000 a...

Introduction: Drowning is still one of the leading causes accidental deaths worldwide while Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) main component drowning pathophysiology. During which often leads to aspiration, pneumonitis may develop an inflammatory response and release mediators activation immune mediated responses. This cascade events development Syndrome, (ARDS). Case: We received a ca...

Therapy by drugs that block the activity of the protein Bcr-Abl, specific inhibitors of Bcr-Abl tyrosine kinase (TKI), significantly changed the prognosis of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Bcr-Abl gene is located on the Philadelphia chromosome (Ph'-chromosome), resulting from t(9;22) translocation, plays a key role in the onset and progression of CML. To date, the standard in the treatment of ...

CONTEXT Brazilian researchers have recently recognized a marked increase in the number of people using abusable drugs and the consequences of this habit. It has become a major public health problem in a potentially productive segment of the general population. In the last few years, several medical articles have given special emphasis to pulmonary complications related to cocaine use. This revi...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women, and the second cause of cancer mortality after pulmonary cancer in this gender. radiotherapy is one of the major treatments, which locally controls the disease and prohibits in recurrency. radiation pneumonitis is one of the radiotherapy complications, which usually occurs with...

BACKGROUND Data on characteristics, outcomes, and prognosis of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients who develop pneumonitis during systemic anti-cancer therapy (pneumonitis) are currently lacking. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 910 consecutive patients diagnosed with advanced NSCLC between January 2004 and January 2014. Of these, 140 patients were exclude...