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:10.23937/2378-3516/1410013
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...
