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POSTOPERATIVE PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS

Medical Clinics of North America, 2001
Patients undergoing elective surgery first need to be screened for operative risks by reviewing factors that relate to the patient and factors that relate to the procedure they are undergoing. The identification of high-risk patients undergoing high-risk procedures may be aided by reviewing the following factors: the presence of symptomatic lung ...
E, Trayner, B R, Celli
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FUNGAL PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 1996
With AIDS has come a new level of T-cell immunosuppression, beyond that previously seen. The impact of the HIV pandemic on the field of fungal infections includes a major increase in the number of serious fungal infections, an increase in the severity of those infections, and even some entirely new manifestations of fungal illness.
S F, Davies, G A, Sarosi
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Pulmonary complications of leptospirosis

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2002
Leptospirosis is a worldwide disease. In this time of globalization knowledge about leptospirosis is important. Although pulmonary involvement has an incidence varying from 20% to 70% and its exteriorization may vary from mild to severe, The severe form appears to be becoming more prevalent (at least in Brazil) and may be associated with higher ...
Carlos Roberto Ribeiro, Carvalho, Eduardo P, Bethlem   +1 more
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Pulmonary complications of trauma

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 1994
Pulmonary complications can be the result of direct chest trauma or can occur from indirect trauma outside of the thorax. Understanding the mechanism of pulmonary function in determining intrapulmonary shunt and physiologic deadspace can assist the clinician in assessing the severity and monitoring the progression of pulmonary injury in patients.
D, Prentice, T, Ahrens
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Pulmonary Complications of Transplantation

Annual Review of Medicine, 1992
Improved immunosuppressive regimens, advances in surgical proficiency and techniques, and improved supportive medical care have translated into dramatic increases in graft survival in organ transplantation and in patient outcome in bone marrow transplantation.
R A, Robbins, A A, Floreani, S E, Buchalter, J R, Spurzem, J H, Sisson, S I, Rennard   +5 more
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Pulmonary Complications in Infants

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1974
The advent of neonatal intensive care units has led to familiarity with problems of alveolar instability, ventilation-perfusion inequality, airway obstruction, and interstitial disease, all of which may be seen in infants who must have surgery in the newborn period.
M L, Williams, A G, Galvis
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Pulmonary Complications of Leukemia

Chest, 1990
T he leukemias are a diverse group ofdisorders. The natural history and management of the acute and chronic leukemias are distinctly different. Several different pulmonary complications are common in patients with any ofthe leukemias. These are dependent upon multiple factors, including the type of leukemia, the nature and time course of treatment, and
F L, Hildebrand, E C, Rosenow, T M, Habermann, H D, Tazelaar   +3 more
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Pulmonary Complications of Hemoglobinopathies

Chest, 2010
Hemoglobinopathies are diseases caused by genetic mutations that result in abnormal, dysfunctional hemoglobin molecules or lower levels of normal hemoglobin molecules. The most common hemoglobinopathies are sickle cell disease (SCD) and the thalassemias.
Rekha, Vij, Roberto F, Machado
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Perioperative pulmonary complications

Current Opinion in Critical Care, 2011
This article reviews current concepts in perioperative pulmonary management.Preoperative risk assessment tools for perioperative pulmonary complications (POPCs) are evolving for both children and adults. Intraoperative management strategies have a demonstrable effect on outcomes. Late POPCs may be preceded by clinical signs.POPCs are common and lead to
D C, Johnson, L J, Kaplan
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Pulmonary Complications of Obesity

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2001
Obesity can profoundly alter pulmonary function and diminish exercise capacity by its adverse effects on respiratory mechanics, resistance within the respiratory system, respiratory muscle function, lung volumes, work and energy cost of breathing, control of breathing, and gas exchange.
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