High-altitude pulmonary edema in the children and young adults of Leadville, Colorado.
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Adolescent↗
Biomedical subjects
C H Scoggin
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Recurrent pneumonia in Behçet's syndrome. Roentgenographic documentation during 13 years.
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Behcet Syndrome↗
Status asthmaticus. A nine-year experience.
A retrospective analysis of 811 patients admitted to the hospital for status asthmaticus over a nine-year period was performed. Eight patients died, and 19 required mechanical ventilation. All persons who died of status asthmaticus were in the group that required mechanical ventilation. In 12 of the patients who received ventilation, no definite cause for the acute exacerbation could be identified, although initial arterial blood gas analyses showed profound hypoxemia, hypercapnia, and acute respiratory acidosis. Seventy-eight major complications occurred during mechanical ventilation. Pneumothorax, endotracheal tube malfunction, alveolar hypoventilation on the ventilator, and pneumonia were associated with decreased survival. Mucous plugging of the airways was found in all autopsied patients. Mechanical ventilation in status asthmaticus is a life-support system associated with substantial morbidity and should be instituted only when it becomes evident that maximal medical therapy will not be efficacious.
Adolescent↗
Acute respiratory failure due to disseminated strongyloidiasis in a renal transplant recipient.
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Acute Disease↗
Therapeutic considerations in status asthmaticus.
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Adrenal Cortex Hormones↗
Clinical semi-starvation: depression of hypoxic ventilatory response.
A decreased metabolic rate has been associated with decreased ventilatory response to hypoxia and hypercapnia, and also with starvation. We fed a 500-calorie carbohydrate diet with supplemental electrolytes, designed to simulate alimentation by usual intravenous fluids, to seven normal subjects for 10 days to determine the effect of semi-starvation on metabolic rate and ventilatory responses. By the 10th day metabolic rate was significantly decreased, and hypoxic ventilatory response decreased to 42% of control (P less than 0.05). In two subjects, hypoxic ventilatory response was virtually abolished at day 10. These changes reversed toward normal with refeeding. The decrease in hypoxic ventilatory response response was significantly (P less than 0.01) related to the decrease in metabolic rate. Hypercapnic ventilatory response, measured as the slope of the ventilatory response to hypercapnia, decreased slightly but not significantly. The decrease in hypoxic ventilatory response seen during semi-starvation may contribute to the hypoxemia and respiratory failure subsequent to caloric restriction.
Adult↗
Roentgenogram of the month. Productive cough and hemoptysis in rheumatoid lung disease.
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Arthritis, Rheumatoid↗
Tuberculosis of the skull.
Because tuberculosis of the skull is relatively unusual occurrence, it may not be immediately recognized. It responds readily to chemotherapy and should be suspected in disseminated tuberculosis or in any draining lesion of the skull that is sterile or fails to respond to conventional antibiotic therapy.
Adult↗