BACKGROUND Hydrochloric acid aspiration increases pulmonary microvascular permeability. The authors tested the hypothesis that partial liquid ventilation has a beneficial effect on filtration coefficients in acute acid-induced lung injury. METHODS Isolated blood-perfused rabbit lungs were assigned randomly to one of four groups. Group 1 (n = 6) served as a control group without edema. In grou...

background: hairdressers are occupationally exposed to a number of agents in their workplace that result in respiratory symptoms and changes in pulmonary function. objective: to evaluate associations between occupational exposure and respiratory function and reported symptoms in a group of hairdressers compared to a control group. methods: a questionnaire on respiratory symptoms and workplace c...

A 28-year-old woman with a deformed thorax and kyphoscoliosis associated with Klippel-Feil syndrome developed respiratory failure with pulmonary hypertension. Pulmonary 133Xe ventilation and 99mTc-MAA perfusion scintigraphies showed maldistributions of lung ventilation and perfusion, and noticeably delayed 133Xe washout from the lungs. Dynamic breathing MR imaging showed poor and/or asynchronou...

A case is reported of complete isolated occlusion of the right pulmonary artery resulting in underperfusion of the right lung; this was confirmed radiographically and at thoracotomy. Bronchospirometry showed that there was a reduction of ventilation to the right lung. When this lung alone was supplied with a carbon dioxide rich mixture there was a shift of ventilation towards the normal pattern...

A 14-year-old female patient underwent right single living-donor lobar lung transplantation for bronchiolitis obliterans after bone marrow transplantation. The patient experienced a complication with severe hypoxemia requiring venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which appeared to result from significant ventilation-perfusion mismatch caused by preferential ventilation of the transpl...

During ventilation, the lungs may serve as accessory pumps for forward blood flow. We have noted significant hemodynamic improvement in several patients during short periods of vigorous hand ventilation with the Ambu bag and tried to reproduce the hemodynamic improvement in the management of four patients with profound low cardiac output syndrome secondary to right ventricular (RV) failure foll...

Transfusion-related acute lung injury is a serious complication of blood transfusions. Herein is a report on a 32-year-old woman who developed diffuse pulmonary infiltrates and acute respiratory compromise after blood transfusion. Non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema was diagnosed based on data calculated by the hemodynamic monitoring system, but severe hypoxemia persisted despite conventional pres...

A game for training of breath (TRABR) for continuous monitoring of pulmonary ventilation during the patients’ therapy focuses especially on monitoring of their ventilation processes. It is necessary to detect, monitor and differentiate abdominal and thoracic breathing during the therapy. It is a fun form of rehabilitation where the patient plays and also practicing isolated breathing. Finally t...

We read with great interest the article published by Chen et al. [1] regarding a systematic assessment of respiratory mechanics in patients with ARDS to determine ventilation parameters and the optimal mode. They used basic monitoring along with the placement of an esophageal balloon catheter to measure transpulmonary pressure. We believe that monitoring pulmonary mechanics may be useful, not o...

OBJECTIVE This study analyzed acute respiratory failure caused by acute pulmonary edema, as well as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation, that was treated with non-invasive mechanical ventilation to identify the factors that are associated with the success or failure non-invasive mechanical ventilation in urgent and emergency service. METHODS This study was a prospective, descri...