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Respiratory and Pulmonary MedicineISSN: 2378-3516

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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410016

Community Acquired Pneumonia

Sonia Akter

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: March 21, 2015

Community-acquired pneumonia is defined as an acute infection of the pulmonary parenchyma in a patient who has acquired the infection in the community. CAP remains a common and potentially serious illness. It is associated with considerable morbidity, mortality and treatment cost, particularly in elderly patients. CAP causes problems like difficulty in breathing, fever, chest pains, and cough....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410015

Primary Mediastinal Goiter Resected via Cervical Approach

Benito Vargas-Abrego, Pablo Alvarez-Maldonado, Rosa M Alcazar-Lopez, Francisco C Lorente-Ludlow and Carlos Nunez-Perez Redondo

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: February 24, 2015

Primary mediastinal goiter is a rare entity. In most cases their finding is incidental. Excision is mandatory because of the risk of compression of vital structures within the chest. We report the case of a primary posterior mediastinal goiter that was resected through a cervical approach....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410014

Does the Body Mass Index Affect the Success of Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation in Patients with Acute Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure?

Esmehan Akpinar, Serdar Akpinar and Nazire Ucar

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: February 15, 2015

Objective: Obesity has many negative effects on lung functions. It is not yet clear whether body mass index (BMI) affects the success of noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIMV). The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in NIMV strategies, on the basis of BMI, in patients with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure and the effect of BMI on the success of NIMV. Methods: A total of 86 patients who had acute hypercapnic respiratory failure were enrolled consecutively....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410013

The Use of Independent Lung Ventilation for Unilateral Pulmonary Hemorrhage

Ajit A. Sarnaik

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: February 08, 2015

Independent Lung Ventilation (ILV) has been used in the critical care setting as a rescue therapy for differential lung disease. The purpose of anatomic separation of the lungs is to prevent blood, purulent secretions, or other debris from one lung from contaminating the other lung. Physiologic separation of the lungs allows different ventilator strategies to be applied to each lung. We report the case of the successful use of ILV in a man with congenital heart disease with severe right sided pu...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410012

New Treatment Strategies for Influenza

Luis del Carpio-Orantes

Article Type: Mini Review | First Published: January 28, 2015

After the pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, there are many lessons learned regarding the diagnosis and treatment of patients affected by this virus. However, there have also been a number of contingencies that have greater concern to the world population, mainly by new types as infectious outbreaks, as well as the report of virus mutations that confer resistance to common treatment widely used. For new outbreaks have resulted in a new calamity, after the A (H1N1) pdm09, mainly mentioned the influenz...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410011

An Enlarging Airway Foreign Body

Vijay Hadda, Kavitha Venkatnarayan, Karan Madan, Anant Mohan and GC Khilnani

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: January 26, 2015

A 25-year-old female patient presented with dry coughs of 20 days duration and fever for four days. Examination of respiratory system revealed no significant abnormality. Chest radiograph was normal. CT scan of the thorax revealed endobronchial opacity in the right main bronchus suggestive of a foreign body. Patient retrospectively recollected history of betel nut aspiration just prior to onset of symptoms. Flexible bronchoscopy revealed a large sized blackish-brownish large foreign (betel nut) ...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410010

Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure Measurement: A Challenge for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

F. Zoreka, H. Bouvaist, E. Vautrin, S. Marliere, R. Guerbaai, J. Labarere, G. Vanzetto and C. Pison

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: January 11, 2015

Background: International registries report an aging population suffering from PAH (Pulmonary Artery Hypertension) engendering diagnosis difficulties linked with growing cases of group 2 related to left heart failure with preserved Ejection Fraction (PH-HFpE). Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure (PCWP) measurement by right heart catheterization remains a technical challenge for patient classification; many centers still use digital PCWP given by cath lab software. Here, we have tried to demonstra...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410009

Halotherapy in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis: A Pilot Study

Morhaf AlAchkar, David E. Geller, Amanshe Perera Slaney and Daniel T Layish

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: January 04, 2015

Objectives: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a complex genetic disorder of the lower and upper respiratory tract. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of Halotherapy on sinusitis symptoms, dyspnea, pulmonary function tests, and quality of life in CF patients. Study design: This was a pilot open-label before-and-after-study. Settings: The study was performed at the Orlando Salt Room. Participants were from a single CF care center, and were enrolled in the study between January and June, 201...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410008

Continuous Abstinence Rates at 3, 6, 9 and 12 Months in a Smoking Cessation Unit at the Albacete University Hospital Over 2 Years

Callejas Gonzalez FJ, Genoves Crespo M, Cruz Ruiz J, Tornero Molina AI, Esquinas Lopez C, Bermejo Lopez P, Garcia Castillo S, Martinez Garcia AJ, Rodriguez Montes JA5 and Tarraga Lopez PJ

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: January 04, 2015

838 patients referred 559 attended to and only 278 treated (33%); 55.4% males and 44.6% females; mean age of 46.4 years. The most important comorbidities were psychiatric (36.3%), cardiovascular (dyslipidemia 30.2%, hypertension 19.1%, diabetes 9.4%) and respiratory (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), 15.1%; Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS), 11.9%; asthma, 7.6%). Treatments included varenicline (VRN), 36.7%, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), 43.4%, bupropion, 13.3%, and psych...

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