Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) is caused due to respiratory distress the fetus during or before parturition. As a result of asphyxia, fetal gasping causes meconic amniotic fluid entry into air passages and pulmonary complications, sometimes death newborn. In present study, two cases MAS in murrah buffalo calves born full term by assisted delivery died after few hours were received for routi...

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life-threatening lung injury characterized by rapid onset of widespread inflammation in the lungs. Multiple risk factors, including pneumonia, non-pulmonary sepsis, aspiration gastric contents or inhalation injury, have been reported, to cause ARDS. We present case healthy young woman her first trimester with vaping-induced who presented spontaneo...

BACKGROUND Critically ill patients who require mechanical ventilation are at risk for ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current data are conflicting as to the optimal diagnostic approach in patients who have suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia. METHODS In a multicenter trial, we randomly assigned immunocompetent adults who were receiving mechanical ventilation and who had suspected venti...

Tracheoesophageal fistulas can arise from both benign and malignant conditions, and often present clinically as increased secretions, coughing with or without hypoxia after swallowing, and recurrent aspiration pneumonia. We describe a tracheoesophageal fistula in a post-chemotherapy lymphoma patient that was closed with use of an over-the-scope Aponos clip.

Anterior cervical hyperostosis may be a cause of dysphagia. For anterior cervical hyperostosis, medical or surgical treatments can be adhibited in view of the causative mechanisms and intensities of dysphagia. We report 3 cases of cervical hyperostosis-derived progressive dysphagia that underwent operation. Radiologic diagnosis and Video Fluoroscopic Swallowing Study were performed on the three...

Mrs S. is an 83-year-old woman with advanced dementia who lives with her daughter. At baseline, Mrs S. is communicative but confused, requires assistance for her activities of daily living, and has little interest in food. Her daughter tries to feed her a puréed diet that she has been following since her discharge from hospital 3 months ago after aspiration pneumonia. Over the past several week...

background: cefepime was used as empirical treatment in ventilator-associated pneumonia (vap) induced by gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. this study aimed to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of cefepime against microorganism causing vap in mazandaran, north of iran. methods: this study was performed on vap patients diagnosed with clinical pulmonary infection score (cp...

OBJECTIVE A prior study suggested that antidepressants might increase the risk of hospitalization for pneumonia in the elderly. This study sought to confirm or refute this hypothesis. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Case-control study of persons aged 65 and above nested in the UK General Practice Research Database. RESULTS We identified 12,044 cases of the hospitalization for pneumonia (the primar...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of a new reflex cough test, using nebulized tartaric acid, in the evaluation of the laryngeal cough reflex and the development of aspiration pneumonia. STUDY DESIGN In this two-phase study, the cough test assessed the cough reflex in 161 stroke subjects. Phase 1 was a double-blinded prospective study of 40 subjects scheduled to have both modified bariu...