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Antibiotic, but probably not one of the semisynthetic penicillins because of the potential for platelet dysfunction secondary to this class of agents 14 ; . If aureus is isolated from the sputum, it should also be treated 13 ; . It interesting to note that patients in this study had a high incidence of colonization infection with multi-drug-resistant bacteria. In addition, one patient was considered to have active infection with M. avium complex. The presence of these organisms in this patient population may simply be a marker of more severe disease. On the other hand, a causative relationship between the presence of resistant organisms and hemoptysis cannot be excluded. In addition, the presence of such microorganisms in these patients implies that the interventional radiology staff should take measures to minimize the risk of transmission when patients with CF are undergoing a BAE procedure, particularly when organisms such as B. cepacia are present in the sputum. Malabsorption of fat-soluble vitamins, specifically vitamin K, can predispose patients with CF to coagulation abnormalities. Therefore, it is important to check the PT and PTT on all patients with CF admitted for hemoptysis. Interestingly, in this study, coagulation studies in these patients were for the most part not significantly abnormal. However, it is still important to address the possibility that coagulation defects may be present and treat such abnormalities as appropriate. Treatment with oral or parenteral vitamin K or fresh-frozen plasma may be considered in such circumstances. Another point of note is drug effect on the coagulation system, particularly platelet function. The penicillins, including the antipseudomonal semisynthetic penicillins, are noteworthy in this regard 1416 ; . Localizing the site of the bleeding is helpful prior to the BAE procedure. Perhaps the most reliable method, as noted in this and in other studies, for localizing an area of bleeding is the patient's report of "gurgling" or discomfort in a specific area of the thorax 4, 11 ; . In the current study, when a focal infiltrate or area of most severe disease was visible on the chest radiograph, its presence was fairly accurate in suggesting this area as the site of bleeding. The chest CT was performed in a minority of patients, but it was useful only in one patient for localizing hemorrhage. Therefore, the CT scan may be considered in those cases where the symptoms and the chest radiograph are not helpful. Bronchoscopy may also be useful to localize the site of bleeding, as in seven of the patients in our series. Although some earlier studies advocated the use of bronchoscopy as the primary method for localizing the site of bleeding, more recent literature has placed less importance on this modality 10, 17, 18 ; . Certainly if there is a large amount of blood in the airways, flexible bronchoscopy plays a limited role. We suggest that bronchoscopy has a role similar to that of CT, i.e., that it be reserved for those patients where the symptoms and chest radiograph are not useful. Clearly, the decision to employ either study should be made on a case-bycase basis. Some investigators advocate that in the setting of acute hemoptysis, all angiographically visible bronchial arteries to both lungs should be embolized 7, 10, 12 ; . Others promote a more selective approach, with embolization being directed toward the lung most clinically suspected of being the origin of the hemoptysis 11 ; . In this study, only unilateral embolizations were performed in seven of the 20 patients. As discussed previously, our approach is to pursue a more selective approach to BAE. Initial embolization is performed on the side most suspected as the source of the hemoptysis, based on the information as described in the preceding section. Only unilateral embolization was performed in the patients from our series who localized the symptoms to one side, and BAE was.
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`I here, ' said Dirk, `in pursuit of justice.' `Well, I wouldn't mix with me then, ' said Gilks, `and I certainly wouldn't mix with the Met. What do you know of MacDuff and Way?' `Of Way? Nothing beyond what is common knowledge. MacDuff I knew at Cambridge.' `Oh, you did, did you? Describe him.' `Tall. Tall and absurdly thin. And good-natured. A bit like a preying mantis that doesn't prey -- a non-preying mantis if you like. A sort of pleasant genial mantis that's given up preying and taken up tennis instead.' `Hmm, ' said Gilks gruffly, turning away and looking about the room. Dirk pocketed the tape. `Sounds like the same one, ' said Gilks. `And of course, ' said Dirk, `completely incapable of murder.' `That's for us to decide.' `And of course a jury.' `Tchah! Juries!' `Though, of course, it will not come to that, since the facts will speak for themselves long before it comes to a court of law for my client.' `Your bleeding client, eh? All right, Cjelli, where is he?' `I haven't the faintest idea.' `I'll bet you've got a billing address.' Dirk shrugged. `Look, Cjelli, this is a perfectly normal, harmless murder enquiry, and I don't want you mucking it up. So consider yourself warned off as of now. If I see a single piece of evidence being levitated I'll hit you so hard you won't know if it's tomorrow or Thursday. Now get out, and give me that tape on the way.' He held out his hand. Dirk blinked, genuinely surprised. `What tape?' Gilks sighed. `You're a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that, ' he said, `but you make the same mistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid. If I turn away it's for a reason, and the reason was to see what you picked up. I didn't need to see you pick it up, I just had to see what was missing afterwards. We are trained you know. We used to get half an hour Observation Training on Tuesday afternoons. Just as a break after four hours solid of Senseless Brutality.' Dirk hid his anger with himself behind a light smile. He fished in the pocket of his leather overcoat and handed over the tape. `Play it, ' said Gilks, `let's see what you didn't want us to hear.' `It wasn't that I didn't want you to hear it, ' said Dirk, with a shrug. `I just wanted to hear it first.' He went over to the shelf which carried Richard's hi-fi equipment and slipped the tape into the cassette player. `So do you want to give me a little introduction?' `It's a tape, ' said Dirk, `from Susan Way's telephone answering machine. Way apparently had this habit of leaving long.' `Yeah, I know about that. And his secretary goes round picking up his prattlings in the morning, poor devil.' `Well, I believe there may be a message on the tape from Gordon Way's car last night.' `I see. OK. Play it.' With a gracious bow Dirk pressed the Play button. `Oh, Susan, hi, it's Gordon, ' said the tape once again. `Just on my way to the cottage --' `Cottage!' exclaimed Gilks, satirically. `It's, er, Thursday night, and it's, er. 8.47. Bit misty on the roads. Listen, I have those people from the States coming over this weekend.' Gilks raised his eyebrows, looked at his watch, and made a note on his pad. Both Dirk and the police sergeant experienced a chill as the dead man's voice filled the room.
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1. Broide, D. H., M. Lotz, A. J. Cuomo, D. A. Coburn, E. C. Federman, and S. I. Wasserman. 1992. Cytokines in symptomatic asthma airways. J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. 89: 958967. 2. Bradding, P., J. A. Roberts, K. M. Britten, S. Montefort, R. Djukanovic, R. Mueller, C. H. Heusser, P. H. Howarth, and S. T. Holgate. 1994. Interleukin-4, -5 and 6 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha in normal and asthmatic airways: evidence for the human mast cell as a source of these cytokines. Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol. 10: 471480. 3. Ying, S., D. S. Robinson, V. Varney, Q. Meng, A. Tsicopoulos, R. Moqbel, S. R. Durham, A. B. Kay, and Q. Hamid. 1991. TNF alpha mRNA expression in allergic inflammation. Clin. Exp. Allergy 21: 745750. 4. Kips, J. C., J. Tavernier, and A. Pauwels. 1992. Tumor necrosis factor causes bronchial hyperresponsiveness in rats. Am. Rev. Respir. Dis. 145: 332336. 5. Wheeler, A. P., G. Jesmok, and K. L. Brigham. 1990. Tumor necrosis factor's effects on lung mechanics, gas exchange, and airway reactivity in sheep. J. Appl. Physiol. 68: 25422549. 6. Thomas, P. S., D. H. Yates, and P. J. Barnes. 1995. TNF increases airway responsiveness and sputum neutrophilia in normal human subjects. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 152: 7680. 7. Ohkawara, Y., K. Yamauchi, Y. Tanno, G. Tamura, H. Ohtani, H. Nagura, K. Ohkuda, and T. Takishima. 1992. Human lung mast cells and pulmonary macrophages produce tumor necrosis factor-alpha in sensitized lung tissue after IgE receptor triggering. Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol. 7: 385392. 8. Anderson, W. H., T. M. Davidson, and D. H. Broide. 1996. Mast cell TNF mRNA expression in nasal mucosa demonstrated by in situ hybridization: a comparison of mast cell detection methods. J. Immunol. Methods 189: 145155. 9. Costa, J. J., K. Matossian, M. B. Resnick, W. J. Beil, D. T. W. Wong, J. R. Gordon, A. M. Dvorak, P. F. Weller, and S. J. Galli. 1993. Human eosinophils can express the cytokines tumor necrosis factor- and macrophage inflammatory protein-1 . J. Clin. Invest. 91: 26732684. 10. Casale, T. B., J. J. Costa, and S. J. Galli. 1996. TNF- is important in human lung allergic reactions. Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol. 15: 3544. 11. Gosset, P., A. Tsicopoulos, B. Wallert, M. Joseph, A. Capron, and A. B. Tonnel. 1992. TNF- and interleukin-6 production by human mononuclear phagocytes from allergic asthmatics after IgE-dependent stimulation. Am. Rev. Respir. Dis. 146: 768774. 12. Bazzoni, F., and B. Beutler. 1996. The tumour necrosis factor ligand and receptor families. N. Engl. J. Med. 334: 17171725. 13. Rothe, J., W. Lesslauer, H. Lotscher, Y. Lang, P. Koebel, F. Kontgen, A. Althage, R. Zinkernagel, M. Steinmetz, and H. Bluethmann. 1993. Mice and buspirone.
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Atropine is the commonest anticholinergic agent in the clinics in this country. The reason for giving atropine is to reduce saliva secretion and bronchial secretion, to relax the bronchioles, to inhibit parasympathetic reflexes, and possibly counteract the stimulatory effect that some medications have on the parasympathetic system. Dosage stated for pigs varies, from 0.02 0.09 mg kg 9, 13 ; . Too large a dose can give tachycardia. This has occurred following a dose of 0.05 mg kg to a sow. For these animals, 0.02 mg kg was sufficient.
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22. Shimosato, Y., Sobin, L. H., Spencer, H., and Yesner, R. The World Health Organization histological typing of lung tumors, Ed. 2 ; . Am. J. Clin. Pathol., 77: 123136, 1982. Dib, C., Faure, S., Fizames, C., Samson, D., Drouot, N., Vignal, A., Millasseau, P., Marc, S., Hazan, J., Seboun, E., Lathrop, M., Gyapay, G., Morissette, J., and Weissenbach, J. A comprehensive genetic map of the human genome based on 5, 264 microsatellites. Nature Lond. ; , 380: 152154, 1996. Boyle, J. O., Hakim, J., Koch, W., van der Riet, P., Hruban, R. H., Roa, R. A., Correo, R., Eby, Y. J., Ruppert, J. M., and Sidransky, D. The incidence of p53 mutations increases with progression of head and neck cancer. Cancer Res., 53: 4477 4480, Carbone, D. P., Mitsudomi, T., Chiba, I., Piantadosi, S., Rusch, V., Nowak, J. A., McIntire, D., Slamon, D. J., Gazdar, A., and Minna, J. P53 immunostaining positivity is associated with reduced survival and is imperfectly correlated with gene mutations in resected non-small cell lung cancer. A preliminary report of LCSG 871. Chest, 106 Suppl. ; : 377s381s, 1994. 26. Langenfeld, J., Lonardo, F., Kiyokawa, H., Passalaris, T., Ahn M-J, Rusch, V., and Dmitrovsky, E. Inhibited transformation of immortalized human bronchial epithelial cells by retinoic acid is linked to cyclin E down-regulation. Oncogene, 13: 19831990, 1996.
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The lungs of OVA-treated wild-type mice displayed dense cellular infiltrates in bronchovascular bundles of large and mid-size bronchi with their attendant blood vessels Fig. 1b ; . The infiltrates consisted of lymphocytes and eosinophils Fig. 1e ; , and, although their relative number varied from infiltrate to infiltrate, their overall prominence was about equal. The cellular infiltrates did not usually extend beyond the terminal bronchioles, but the immediately surrounding alveoli were often atelectatic and had swollen septa. The airways displayed basement membrane thickening, increased mucus production, and goblet cell hyperplasia that stained black with methenamine silver Fig. 1h ; . In contrast, in the lungs of OVA-treated LTC4Snull mice, inflammatory cell infiltrates, blood vessel wall thickening, bronchial basement membrane thickening, mucus production, and goblet cell hyperplasia were all remarkably reduced Fig. 1, c and i ; . Although OVA-treated LTC4Snull mice had reduced pulmonary inflammation, the character of the remaining infiltrate was similar to that of OVA-treated wild-type mice and was composed of essentially equal numbers of eosinophils and mononuclear cells Fig. 1f ; . To quantitate the extent of pulmonary inflammation, we compared the ratios of inflamed area to total lung area in OVA-treated LTC4Snull mice and wild-type mice. Ten low power 10 objective ; fields of randomly selected areas were examined for digital image analysis. After OVA challenge, the LTC4Snull mice had inflammatory infiltrates occupying 3% of the lung, whereas the wildtype mice had lesions occupying 13% Fig. 2a ; . Hyperplasia of intraepithelial mast cells is a characteristic of Th2 cell-dependent inflammation in mouse lung 27, 39 ; and small and byetta.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank the nurses and staff at the Castle Hill Hospital for their help in obtaining bronchial tissue. GRANTS R. Ramachandran was supported by a University of Hull Ph.D. studentship and A. Botham is supported by a British Heart Foundation Ph.D. studentship Number FS 03 078. These studies were supported solely by departmental funds. REFERENCES 1. Abe K, Aslam A, Walls AF, Sato T, Inoue H. Up-regulation of protease-activated receptor-2 by bFGF in cultured human synovial fibroblasts. Life Sci 79: 898 904, Akers IA, Parsons M, Hill MR, Hollenberg MD, Sanjar S, Laurent GJ, McAnulty RJ. Mast cell tryptase stimulates human lung fibroblast proliferation via protease-activated receptor-2. J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 278: L193L201, 2000. 3. Bachli EB, Pech CM, Johnson KM, Johnson DJ, Tuddenham EG, McVey JH. Factor Xa and thrombin, but not factor VIIa, elicit specific cellular responses in dermal fibroblasts. J Thromb Haemost 1: 19351944, 2003. Blanc-Brude OP, Archer F, Leoni P, Derian C, Bolsover S, Laurent GJ, Chambers RC. Factor Xa stimulates fibroblast procollagen production, proliferation, and calcium signaling via PAR1 activation. Exp Cell Res 304: 16 27, Bogatkevich GS, Tourkina E, Silver RM, Ludwicka-Bradley A. Thrombin differentiates normal lung fibroblasts to a myofibroblast phenotype via the proteolytically activated receptor-1 and a protein kinase C-dependent pathway. J Biol Chem 276: 45184 45192, Bohm SK, Kong W, Bromme D, Smeekens SP, Anderson DC, Connolly A, Kahn M, Nelken NA, Coughlin SR, Payan DG, Bunnett NW. Molecular cloning, expression and potential functions of the human proteinase-activated receptor-2. Biochem J 314: 1009 1016, Bolton SJ, McNulty CA, Thomas RJ, Hewitt CR, Wardlaw AJ. Expression of and functional responses to protease-activated receptors on human eosinophils. J Leukoc Biol 74: 60 68, Boven LA, Vergnolle N, Henry SD, Silva C, Imai Y, Holden J, Warren K, Hollenberg MD, Power C. Up-regulation of proteinase-activated receptor 1 expression in astrocytes during HIV encephalitis. J Immunol 170: 2638 2646, Chambers RC, Dabbagh K, McAnulty RJ, Gray AJ, Blanc-Brude OP, Laurent GJ. Thrombin stimulates fibroblast procollagen production via proteolytic activation of protease-activated receptor 1. Biochem J 333: 121127, 1998. AJP-Lung Cell Mol Physiol VOL and bronchial.
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Part ; , bronchial cuff pressure was measured while confirming the position of the bronchial cuff during the 30 min of the operative procedure. The bronchial cuff pressure decreased significantly by 28.4 cm H, O P 0.01 ; and 21.3 cm H, O P 0.01 ; in the first and second parts, respectively, before the pressure-volume loop or the capnogram changed. The bronchial cuff pressure in the third part showed no significant change. We conclude that bronchial cuff pressure monitoring was very helpful in detecting displacement of the DLT during right-sided, one-lung ventilation. Anesth Analg 1997; 84: 1349-53.
Case 1--G. T. The chest cage is barrel shaped, with wide intercostal spaces. Throughout both lungs dense snowflake like infiltrations particularly evident in the right base, and to a lesser extent in the left upper lobe are noted. Small cavities are noted in the upper lobes and one large cavity, approximately 2 x cm., in the right upper lobe at the level of the third interspace anteriorly. There is a localized pneumothorax at the top of the right lung. Case 2--S. G. The chest cage is long and narrow. Considerable widening of the hilus area. The right upper lobe is densely infiltrated and in the upper outer portion a rather large cavitation. There are long strands of bronchial and peribronchial thickening peripherally from the hilus area throughout both lungs, particularly noted in the right basal area. Case 3--W. C. The chest cage is large with wide intercostal space. The markings are increased throughout both lungs, both basally and apically and especially in the right lung and bilaterally a fair number of discrete calcifications, especially on the right side. The hiluses are definitely increased. Case 4--H. G. The chest cage is somewhat wide with wide intercostal spaces. The hilus areas are quite large particularly on the left side. The left upper lobe is infiltrated in its entirety with dense and camptosar.
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