摘要:

A retrospective report is presented on the quality of life and the life expectancy of 80 women who gave birth to totally 196 children after pneumonectomy. The women were operated upon in the period 1947–1954 and followed since in regular intervals. Pecularities concerning pregnancy, delivery and motherhood in their relation to the pulmonary function are discussed. It is concluded that a pneumonectomy for a nonprogressive disease of one lung in a woman of childbearing age is associated with a nearly normal obstetric history and life expectan

ISSN:0025-7931    

DOI:10.1159/000194216

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1980

数据来源: Karger

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Two groups of 10 patients with systemic arterial hypertension were studied by respiratory function tests before and after acute administration of diazoxide or furosemide. Small airways obstruction was present in a high percentage of patients and was partially reversed after the acute administration either of diazoxide or of furosemide. Systemic arterial hypertension seems to influence small airways caliber, through pulmonary vascular distension and/or pulmonary interstitial edema

ISSN:0025-7931    

DOI:10.1159/000194222

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1980

数据来源: Karger

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Lung volumes (FVC1, FEV1.0 and peak flow) were measured in 403 men and 561 women volunteers for fitness testing, using the SRL automated spirometer system. Average scores for this population were 5–10% higher than predicted from age, height and sex using either the formulae inherent in the SRL computer or standards proposed by Anderson et al. [1968] for the Toronto population; existing standards may thus underestimate respiratory potential. Lung function data showed a dose-dependent decrease within the category of cigarette smokers, but there was no significant difference between average results for smokers and non-smokers. Multivariate analysis showed significant contributions of lean mass and obesity to the overall description of lung volumes; however, effects were not large enough to justify incorporation of such variables into routine prediction equations. Positive responses to the respiratory section of the Cornell Medical Index were in several instances associated with below expected lung volumes. The most consistent response was to the question ‘do you suffer from asthma?’ Although the average effect was significant, the magnitude of response (10–20%) would have been overlooked in individual testing; this suggests that there may be more scope for pulmonary screening through the improvement of questionnaires than through the purchase of expensive electronic spi

ISSN:0025-7931    

DOI:10.1159/000194217

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1980

数据来源: Karger

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17 subjects were carefully selected among 150 patients with COLD: all patients with one or more conditions or diseases that could alter the physiological response to chronic hypercapnia were eliminated. During a period of 13 to 28 days, the acid-base response to slow carbon dioxide changes was studied in the selected patients. Total body buffering capacity was expressed as dH+a/dPaCO2 and showed to be an inverse function of chronic PaCO2 (defined as the value of PaCO2 in clinical and acid-base steady status for each patient), according to the previous suggestions of Weiss and Dulfano and to the report of Ingram and co-workers during acute carbon dioxide changes in the same patients

ISSN:0025-7931    

DOI:10.1159/000194218

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1980

数据来源: Karger

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This work is aimed at getting on-line values of dead space and nitrogen clearance curves during washout experiments performed during continuous oxygen inhalation. An analog computer was built and connected to standard numeric implements, sending to them the processed signals from the measuring instruments. This solution seems to give at the same time good accuracy and good versatility at the lowest cost both in time and money

ISSN:0025-7931    

DOI:10.1159/000194219

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1980

数据来源: Karger

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106 pleural effusions or pleural opacities suggesting fluid were evaluated in a prospective study by B-mode real-time sonography and radiography. 41 cases were first investigated by means of ultrasound, 65 by the conventional erect roentgenogram. The correct diagnosis of pleural fluid was made by ultrasound in 95.3% and by radiologic examination in 86.8% of the cases. Radiography failed to distinguish between pleural effusion and solid pleural thickening in 7.5%, sonography in 1.9% of the cases. In 8 patients with normal roentgenograms, small epidiaphragmal pleural effusions were detected by means of ultrasound. In diagnosis of pleural effusion, sonography was found to be superior to the conventional radiologic technique both in sensitivity and in diagnosing the consistency. The value of the ultrasonic method both in establishing the quality of intrathoracic masses adjacent to the pleura and in sonographically guided needle puncture is emphasized

ISSN:0025-7931    

DOI:10.1159/000194220

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1980

数据来源: Karger

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The importance of nonoccupational asbestos exposure has been emphasized recently. To illustrate this problem, we report 4 persons with asbestos-related disease from household exposure. There were 2 wives of asbestos workers, who cleaned their husbands’ work clothes. One developed a mesothelioma and the other plaques, calcification, benign asbestos pleural effusion and subpleural parenchymal fibrosis. 2 men were exposed as children while playing in a cellar room which was also used for their father’s muffler repair business. At ages 27 and 33, they had pleural and diaphragmatic calcificat

ISSN:0025-7931    

DOI:10.1159/000194221

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1980

数据来源: Karger