Seattle Area Chest Grand Rounds

Abnormal Chest X-ray

Battistini E, et al. Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia in three children with acute leukaemias treated with cytosine arabinoside and anthracyclines. Eur Respir J. 1997 May;10(5):1187-90.

Patel M, et al. Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia in a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia developing after initiation of interferon and cytosine arabinoside. Eur J Haematol. 2001 Nov-Dec;67(5-6):318-21.

Perez-Zincer F, Juturi JV, Hsi ED, Hoeltge GA, Rybicki LA, Kalaycio ME. A pulmonary syndrome in patients with acute myelomonocytic leukemia and inversion of chromosome 16. Leuk Lymphoma. 2003 Jan;44(1):103-9.

Chest Pain

Kawano H, Ogawa H. Endothelial function and coronary spastic angina.
Intern Med. 2005 Feb;44(2):91-9.

Miwa K, et al. Recent insights into the mechanisms, predisposing factors, and racial differences of coronary vasospasm. Heart Vessels. 2005 Feb;20(1):1-7.

Wang K, et al. ST-segment elevation in conditions other than acute myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med. 2003 Nov 27;349(22):2128-35.

PE and thrombolysis?

Dalen JE. The uncertain role of thrombolytic therapy in the treatment of pulmonary embolism. Arch Intern Med. 2002 Dec 9-23;162(22):2521-3.

Wood KE. Major pulmonary embolism: review of a pathophysiologic approach to the golden hour of hemodynamically significant pulmonary embolism.
Chest. 2002 Mar;121(3):877-905.

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Immune reconstitution syndrome

Hirsch HH, Kaufmann G, Sendi P, Battegay M. Immune reconstitution in HIV-infected patients. Clin Infect Dis. 2004 Apr 15;38(8):1159-66.

Narita M, et al. Paradoxical worsening of tuberculosis following antiretroviral therapy in patients with AIDS. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1998 Jul;158(1):157-61.

Race EM, Focal mycobacterial lymphadenitis following initiation of protease-inhibitor therapy in patients with advanced HIV-1 disease. Lancet. 1998 Jan 24;351(9098):252-5.

Shelburne SA 3rd, et al. Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome: emergence of a unique syndrome during highly active antiretroviral therapy. Medicine (Baltimore). 2002 May;81(3):213-27.

Post-Extubation Complications

Jaber S, et al. Post-extubation stridor in intensive care unit patients. Risk factors evaluation and importance of the cuff-leak test. Intensive Care Med. 2003 Jan;29(1):69-74.

Markovitz BP, Randolph AG. Corticosteroids for the prevention and treatment of post-extubation stridor in neonates, children and adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2000;(2):CD001000.

Meade MO, et al. Trials of corticosteroids to prevent postextubation airway complications. Chest. 2001 Dec;120(6 Suppl):464S-8S.

Rothaar RC, Epstein SK. Extubation failure: magnitude of the problem, impact on outcomes, and prevention. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2003 Feb;9(1):59-66.

Solitary lung nodule

Libby DM, et al. Managing the small pulmonary nodule discovered by CT.
Chest. 2004 Apr;125(4):1522-9.

Gould MK, et al. Accuracy of positron emission tomography for diagnosis of pulmonary nodules and mass lesions: a meta-analysis. JAMA. 2001 Feb 21;285(7):914-24.

Yeow KM, et al. Risk factors of pneumothorax and bleeding: multivariate analysis of 660 CT-guided coaxial cutting needle lung biopsies.
Chest. 2004 Sep;126(3):748-54.

Microscopic Polyangiitis and the Lungs

Agard C, et al. Microscopic polyangiitis and polyarteritis nodosa: how and when do they start? Arthritis Rheum. 2003 Oct 15;49(5):709-15.

Collins CE, Quismorio FP Jr. Pulmonary involvement in microscopic polyangiitis.
Curr Opin Pulm Med. 2005 Sep;11(5):447-51.

Goek ON, Stone JH. Randomized controlled trials in vasculitis associated with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies. Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2005 May;17(3):257-64.

Milne KL, et al. Microscopic polyangiitis: first report of a case with onset during pregnancy. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2004 Jan;19(1):234-7.

TB Pleuritis

Pai M, et al. Nucleic acid amplification tests in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleuritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Infect Dis. 2004 Feb 23;4(1):6.

Aoe K, et al. Diagnostic significance of interferon-gamma in tuberculous pleural effusions. Chest. 2003 Mar;123(3):740-4.

Hiraki A, et al. Comparison of six biological markers for the diagnosis of tuberculous pleuritis. Chest. 2004 Mar;125(3):987-9.

Kataria YP, Khurshid I. Adenosine deaminase in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleural effusion. Chest. 2001 Aug;120(2):334-6.

Candela A, et al. Functional sequelae of tuberculous pleurisy in patients correctly treated. Chest. 2003 Jun;123(6):1996-2000.

Andreu J, et al. Radiological manifestations of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Eur J Radiol. 2004 Aug;51(2):139-49.

Conde MB, et al. Yield of sputum induction in the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2003 Mar 1;167(5):723-5.

Kirsch CM, et al. The optimal number of pleural biopsy specimens for a diagnosis of tuberculous pleurisy. Chest. 1997 Sep;112(3):702-6.

CNS Tuberculosis

American Thoracic Society/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Infectious Diseases Society of America: treatment of tuberculosis.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2003 Feb 15;167(4):603-62.

Bernaerts A, et al. Tuberculosis of the central nervous system: overview of neuroradiological findings. Eur Radiol. 2003 Aug;13(8):1876-90.

Brodie D, Schluger NW. The diagnosis of tuberculosis. Clin Chest Med. 2005 Jun;26(2):247-71, vi.

Thwaites GE, Tran TH. Tuberculous meningitis: many questions, too few answers. Lancet Neurol. 2005 Mar;4(3):160-70.

Tracheoesophageal Fistula

Rampaul RS, Naraynsingh V, Dean VS. Tracheoesophageal fistula following blunt chest trauma: diagnosis in the ICU--the "breathing bag" sign.
Chest. 1999 Jul;116(1):267.

Kanne JP, Stern EJ, Pohlman TH. Trauma cases from Harborview Medical Center. Tracheoesophageal fistula from a gunshot wound to the neck.
AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2003 Jan;180(1):212.