INTRODUCTION Primary leiomyoma of the lung is a rare benign tumor that usually presents as a solitary lesion predominantly in young females. Fewer than 100 cases have been reported. Common symptoms include fever, chronic cough, hemoptysis, chest pain, shortness of breath, and pneumonias. CASE PRESENTATION A 34-year-old, non-smoker female who presented with recurrent pneumonias. She was found ...

Pneumonias are usually acute infectious processes of the pulmonary parenchyma, being the result of the overcome of the natural defence mechanisms of the human organism, which lead to the penetration, persistence and multiplication of a biologic agent (which has become a pathogen agent) within the lungs. This is a phenomena which generates local manifestations (inflammation) and systemic manifes...

OBJECTIVE To establish baseline values of pneumonia incidence and mortality and to distinguish primary endogenous from secondary endogenous and exogenous pneumonias in a homogeneous patient population with severe burns. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING A six-bed burn ICU. PATIENTS All patients of > or = 14 years admitted to the ICU between January 1995 and June 1996 with a total body surface ...

Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias include complex diseases that have a strong interaction between genetic makeup and environmental factors. However, in many cases, no infectious agent can be demonstrated, and these clinical diseases rapidly progress to death. Theoretically, idiopathic interstitial pneumonias could be caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, adenovirus, hepatitis C vi...

Radiological reports are a rich source of clinical data which can be mined to assist with biosurveillance of emerging infectious diseases. In addition to biosurveillance, radiological reports are an important source of clinical data for health service research.Pneumonias and other radiological findings on chest x ray or chest computed tomography (CT) are one type of relevant finding to both bio...

The study investigates the effect of macroeconomic determinants on the performance of the Indian Stock Market using monthly data over the period January 1991 to December 2011 for eight macroeconomic variables, namely, Interest Rate, Inflation, Exchange Rate, Index of Industrial Production, Money Supply, Gold Price, Silver Price & Oil Price, and two stock market indices namely Sensex and S&P CNX...

I study a problem, whether the asymmetry of a 56 Ni ejecta that results in the asymmetry of the Hα emission line at the nebular epoch of the type IIP su-pernova SN 2004dj is able also to account for the recently detected polarization of the supernova radiation. I developed a model of the Hα profile and luminos-ity with a nonthermal ionization and excitation taken into account adopting an asymme...

We are currently in the midst of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, and a second wave of flu in the fall and winter could lead to more hospitalizations for pneumonia. Recent pathologic and historic data from the 1918 influenza pandemic confirms that many, if not most, of the deaths in that pandemic were a result of secondary bacterial pneumonias. This means that a second wave of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influen...

Community-acquired pneumonias are difficult to diagnose. For this reason, we have attempted to evaluate the correct diagnosis by using noninvasive methods which are easy to follow outside the hospital environment. To achieve this, 165 patients exhibiting the clinical and roentgenographic symptoms characteristic of pneumonia, have been studied from a bacteriologic, serologic, and statistical sta...

Chlorhexidine bed baths seem to reduce the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycinresistant enterococcus detected by surveillance cultures. There is also some evidence on the benefit of chlorhexidine mouthwashes in the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonias. Acidsuppressing drugs increase the incidence of hospital-acquired pneumonias in non-intensive care...