From Grecian days up to modern times serious penetrating and other injuries of the chest have resulted, almost without exception, in the death of the injured person with the physician or surgeon standing by helplessly. Medical historywas made and recorded whenever a patient with severe chest injury recovered and these cases seemed mostly to be chest wall injuries with lung prolapse. Pare, that ...

Acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia is a newly recognized pattern of lung injury. It may be idiopathic or secondary to a variety of lung injuries. In this case report we describe a 64-year-old male with acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia caused by decitabine. He had substantial clinical and radiological improvement after the discontinuation of decitabine and a course of corticosteroids.

Chest trauma is classified as blunt or penetrating, with being the cause of most thoracic injuries (90%). The main difference in penetrating opening cavity, created either by stabbing gunshot wounds, which absent chest trauma. Following head and extremities injuries, Blunt are third common injury polytrauma patients. Assessment patients clinical radiographic finding suggestive pneumothorax, rib...

T he lung is highly exposed to the external environment and must cope with a number of challenges from inhaled particles, toxic gases and invading microorganisms. Defence against these external injuries depends on various mechanisms (antioxidants, antiproteases and the immune response), and an efficient system for removing and replacing apoptotic cells. Failure to cope with external injury may ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the safety and short‑term results of early high volume lung lavage in the treatment of acute severe smoke inhalation injuries in dogs. A high‑volume normal saline complex solution lavage in the left lung was performed 1 h subsequent to bilateral pulmonary acute severe sawdust smoke inhalation injury in dogs. Lavage of the right lung was conducted ...

OBJECTIVE Free radicals generated by ionizing radiation attack various cellular components such as lipids. The lung is a very radiosensitive organ and its damage is a doselimiting factor in radiotherapy treatments. Melatonin (MLT), the major product of the pineal gland acts as a radioprotective agent. This study aims to investigate the radioprotective effects of MLT on malondialdehyde (MDA) lev...

OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that lung injury and rib cage fracture quantification would be associated with adverse outcomes. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Consecutive admissions to a trauma center with Injury Severity Score ≥ 9, age 18-75, and blunt trauma. CT scans were reviewed to score rib and sternal fractures and lung infiltrates. Sternum and each anterior, lateral, and posterior rib fracture was s...

two basic and clinical researches accomplished during the recent years on embryonic and adult stem cells constituted a mutation in regenerative therapy. these cells can be used for treating some degenerative diseases. between them, age-related functional defects, hematopoietic and immune system disorders, heart failures, chronic liver injuries, diabetes, parkinson’s and alzheimer’s diseases, ar...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Paraquat-induced lung injury has been considered a progressive and irreversible disease. The purpose of this study was to report the long-term evolution of lung lesions in eight survivors with significant paraquat-induced lung injuries who could be followed-up for longer than 6 months. METHODS We retrospectively examined high-resolution computed tomography and pulmonary functi...