Recurrent Thoracic Duplication Cyst with Associated Mediastinal Gas by Hammad Al-Sadoon, Nathan Wiseman, Victor Chernick

“…Presentation varies from an abnormality found on routine chest radiograph to severe respiratory distress and even respiratory failure. Presentation depends on the age of the patient, the location of the lesion, the extent and the size of the mass, and what structures are involved. …”
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A Case of Congenital Cutis Laxa (Generalized Elastolysis) by Paul Champion, Frank Ryan

“…Although the patient’s vascular abnormalities were significant, she died of respiratory failure at 41 years of age from cutis laxa-induced emphysema.…”
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Pleuroparenchymal Fibroelastosis as a Late-Onset Pulmonary Toxicity after Treatment with Anticancer Chemotherapy for High-Risk Neuroblastoma by Satoshi Yokoyama, Risa Kanai, Daisuke Fukao, Keigo Hamahata

“…Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (PPFE) is a rare, progressive, restrictive lung disease characterized by hypercarbic respiratory failure. In pediatrics, it has been described in patients with a history of malignancy who have received a bone marrow transplant, chemotherapy, or radiotherapy. …”
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Pulmonary Complications in Patients with Severe Brain Injury by Kiwon Lee, Fred Rincon

“…Pulmonary complications are prevalent in the critically ill neurological population. Respiratory failure, pneumonia, acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS), pulmonary edema, pulmonary contusions and pneumo/hemothorax, and pulmonary embolism are frequently encountered in the setting of severe brain injury. …”
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Prenatal Diagnosis of the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. A Family Presentation by Humberto Perera Navarro, Tatiana Zaldivar-Vaillant, Carlos Viñas-Portilla, Ariel Medina Concepción, Rosa Guerra Badía, Mariesky Zayas Guillot

“…It is characterized by degeneration of the muscle skeletal fibers which produce handicap in the first decade of life bringing about death due to cardiac or respiratory failure. The responsible gene of the disease is known as DMD and it is located in the X chromosome shorter arm. …”
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A 29-Year-Old Man with Hospital-Acquired Cavitary Pneumonia by Mansoor Mehmood, Ruba A Halloush, Faisal A Khasawneh

“…This article describes the presentation, work-up, diagnosis and treatment of an East Asian immigrant who was admitted with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure.…”
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Considerations on rapid sequence intubation as an alternative to the airway approach in patients with COVID-19 by José Julio Ojeda González

“…COVID-19 is a condition that may evolve towards severity and the patient may presents acute respiratory failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome secondary to the pneumonic process triggered by this condition, in the course of which an anesthetic-surgical procedure may be required, and , as a consequence of the conditions described above, a rapid sequence intubation.This work is aimed at offering a group of valid considerations in the new context, related to the appearance of COVID-19, providing details on the management of these patients´ airway. …”
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Relevance of anxiety in clinical practice of Guillain-Barré syndrome: a cohort study by Raphaël Porcher, Djillali Annane, Andrea Polito, Tarek Sharshar, Takoua Merhbene, Morgane Blanc, Marion Antona, Marie-Christine Durand, Diane Friedman, David Orlikowski, Marie-Hélène Marcadet

“…Either language barrier or cognitive decline that precluded understanding was considered as exclusion criteria.Primary outcome Acute respiratory failure.Interventions At admission, anxiety and clinical factors (including known predictors of respiratory failure: delay between GBS onset and admission, inability to lift head, vital capacity (VC)) were assessed and related to subsequent need for mechanical ventilation (MV). …”
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High Altitude Pulmonary Edema. Case Report and Bibliography Review by Edgar Ernesto Romo Pinos, Yojan Guevara Pérez, Rina María Idrovo Avecillas, Vilma Silvana Vele Quito

“…Most of the times it is under diagnosed or confused with other pathologies which present with respiratory failure.…”
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A Case of Amyopathic Dermatomyositis with Pneumomediastinum and Subcutaneous Emphysema by Aslıhan Gürün Kaya, Aydın Çiledağ, Orhan Küçükşahin, Özlem Özdemir Kumbasar, Çetin Atasoy

“…Despite immunosuppressive treatment clinical deterioration and radiological progression were observed and the patient died because of severe hypoxemic respiratory failure. The patient presented with extremely rare occurrence of pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema in amyopathic dermatomyositis with a poor prognosis.…”
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Use of Thromboelastogram in Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for a Patient with Pulmonary Hemorrhage due to Microscopic Polyangiitis by Chak-Kwan Tong, Jun Jin, Qian Du

“…Our patient suffered from severe hemoptysis due to active microscopic polyangiitis and respiratory failure. Heparin infusion was given at the initiation of ECMO support without further aggravation of hemoptysis. …”
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Tunnel Vision: A Novel Approach for Blood Clot Retrieval Using Cryotherapy through a Flexible Bronchoscope by Fernando Figueroa Rodriguez, Parminder Minhas, Houssein A. Youness

“…We present a case of a 72-year-old man who presented with COVID-19 pneumonia and respiratory failure, requiring intubation and proning. During his stay, he developed pneumothoraces in the left hemithorax, which necessitated the placement of two large-bore chest tubes. …”
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Organizing Pneumonia Associated with Pegylated Interferon α and Ribavirin Therapy by Amit Chopra, Creticus Marak, Narendrakumar Alappan, Chang Shim

“…We report here a case of severe form of organizing pneumonia secondary to pegylated interferon α therapy presenting as acute respiratory failure. Patient has near complete recovery with withdrawal of pegylated interferon α and steroid therapy. …”
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Acute Splenic Artery Thrombosis and Infarction Associated with COVID-19 Disease by Osama Qasim Agha, Ryan Berryman

“…The symptoms of COVID-19 can vary from mild upper respiratory symptoms to severe pneumonia with hypoxemic respiratory failure. Multiple studies and reports have reported a hypercoagulable state associated with this disease, and various recommendations have emerged to guide the use of anticoagulants for prophylaxis. …”
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Comparison of Different Disease-Specific Health-Related Quality of Life Measurements in Patients with Long-Term Noninvasive Ventilation by Toru Oga, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Hideo Kita, Tomomasa Tsuboi, Keisuke Tomii, Morihide Ando, Eiji Kojima, Hiromi Tomioka, Yoshio Taguchi, Yusuke Kaji, Ryoji Maekura, Toru Hiraga, Naoki Sakai, Tomoki Kimura, Michiaki Mishima, Wolfram Windisch, Kazuo Chin

“…Two disease-specific questionnaires have been developed to assess health-related quality of life (HRQL) in patients with chronic respiratory failure: the Severe Respiratory Insufficiency (SRI) Questionnaire and the Maugeri Respiratory Failure (MRF) Questionnaire. …”
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Analysis of Optimal Health-Related Quality of Life Measures in Patients Waitlisted for Lung Transplantation by Junko Tokuno, Toyofumi F Chen-Yoshikawa, Toru Oga, Takahiro Oto, Tomoyo Okawa, Yoshinori Okada, Miki Akiba, Masaki Ikeda, Daisuke Nakajima, Masatsugu Hamaji, Hideki Motoyama, Akihiro Aoyama, Maki Isomi, Kazuo Chin, Hiroshi Date

“…We hypothesized that chronic respiratory failure (CRF)-specific HRQL measures would be more suitable than the SGRQ, considering the underlying disease and its severity in these patients. …”
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis (AAV) Overlap Syndrome: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Sathish Itikyala, Debendra Pattanaik, Syed Raza

“…Our patient initially presented with granulomatous gastric ulcer and later developed respiratory failure. She was diagnosed with GPA. While on maintenance treatment with azathioprine 150 mg/day, she developed hematuria and proteinuria which turned out to be from class V lupus nephritis instead of relapse of vasculitis. …”
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Sarcoidosis Presenting as Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome by Bilal Haider Lashari, Ahmad Raza, Vincent Chan, William Ward

“…Acute pulmonary manifestations, especially acute respiratory failure or acute respiratory distress syndrome, remain extremely uncommon in individuals without a prior diagnosis. …”
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A Fatal Case of Concurrent Disseminated Tuberculosis, Pneumocystis Pneumonia, and Bacterial Septic Shock in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis Receiving Methotrexate, Glucocortico... by Shin-Ichiro Ohmura, Ryuhei Ishihara, Ayaka Mitsui, Yoshiro Otsuki, Toshiaki Miyamoto

“…Despite undergoing intensive treatment, the patient developed respiratory failure and died after 7 days of admission. …”
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Reversible Fetal Renal Impairment following Angiotensin Receptor Blocking Treatment during Third Trimester of Pregnancy: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Tal Saar, Lorinne Levitt, Hagai Amsalem

“…Affected neonates will often suffer from fatal, renal, and respiratory failure. Case. A 39-year-old multigravida admitted due to anhydramnios secondary to valsartan (ARB) exposure at 30 weeks’ gestation. …”
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