M. Dean, E. Bell, C.R. Kershaw, B.M. Guyer, D.W. Hide
{"title":"A short exercise and living course for ashtmatics","authors":"M. Dean, E. Bell, C.R. Kershaw, B.M. Guyer, D.W. Hide","doi":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90036-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90036-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A 5-day, non-residential exercise and living course for children with asthma is described as a feature of a programme of outpatient physiotherapy.</p><p>Eleven children undertaking such a course were compared with 10 asthmatic children in a control group. The subject group showed, in the short term at least, an improvements in bronchial lability, peak flow rates, nocturnal and daytime wheeze, and activity compared with the controls. These findings were statistically significant. There was no difference between the groups in the number of days on which extra medication was taken.</p><p>A short, sharp course is of benefit physically, socially and psychologically to children with asthma.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75618,"journal":{"name":"British journal of diseases of the chest","volume":"82 ","pages":"Pages 155-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0007-0971(88)90036-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14181039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bruce W.S. Robinson, Allan James, Alison H. Rose, Gregory F. Sterrett, Arthur W. Musk
{"title":"Bronchoalveolar lavage sampling of airway and alveolar cells","authors":"Bruce W.S. Robinson, Allan James, Alison H. Rose, Gregory F. Sterrett, Arthur W. Musk","doi":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90007-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90007-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cell counts are used to assess ‘alveolitis’ in patients with interstitial lung diseases (ILD) but inflammatory cells from airways can contribute to the differential cell count. To determine what BAL volume samples airway cells in patients with ILD we measured the proportion of bronchial epithelial cells (BECs) in four successive 25 ml aliquots in a single lung subsegment in 23 patients with ILD (cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA) four, rheumatoid lung (RL) three, asbestosis (ASB) 11, sarcoidosis (SARC) five). Cells recovered from the first two 25 ml lavages exhibited higher proportions of BECs (15±14% and 9±2% respectively) than those from the rermaining two aliquots (3±1%, 3±1%, each <em>P</em><0.01), suggesting that the first 50 ml BAL preferentially sampled airway cells compared to the second 50 ml BAL. To evaluate airway and alveolar inflammatory cell proportions in ILD we performed two separate 50 ml BALs (samples I and II) in a single subsegment in 38 patients with ILD (CFA seven, RL five, ASB 19, SARC seven) and measured the proportions of recovered cells in each sample separately and combined. Seven control individuals were also studied. Sample I contained 1–67% (mean 26±3%) of the total recovered cells. Neutrophil (PMN) proportions were higher in sample I compared to sample II in CFA (20±6 vs 8±2%), RL (30±9 vs 8±2%) and ASB (12±2 vs 7±1%), <em>P</em><0.05 for each, but were similar in samples I and II in patients with SARC (3±1 vs 2±1%) and controls (2±1 vs 2±1%). In combined samples (I+II), absolute PMN proportions were up to 8% higher than in sample II alone whereas absolute lymphocyte proportions were up to 8% less than in sample II alone. These data suggest that separate processing of the fluid recovered from the first 50 ml BAL in ILD patients provides information on the location of inflammatory cells and improves the accuracy of BAL cell counts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75618,"journal":{"name":"British journal of diseases of the chest","volume":"82 ","pages":"Pages 45-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0007-0971(88)90007-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14296512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Giant cell arteritis with pulmonary involvement","authors":"L. Doyle, L. McWilliam, P.S. Hasleton","doi":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90014-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90014-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Giant cell arteritis (GCA) may present as pyrexia of unknown origin with profuse night sweats, pain on mastication, headache, pain in the region of the temporal arteries, polymyalgia rheumatica, myocardial infarction or dissecting aortic aneurysm (1). Few cases with pulmonary involvement have been described. We report a patient with temporal arteritis preceded by pulmonary vascular disease.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75618,"journal":{"name":"British journal of diseases of the chest","volume":"82 ","pages":"Pages 88-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0007-0971(88)90014-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14296518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Respiratory muscles and their neuromotor control (volume 26 of nuerology and neurobiology)","authors":"S. Freedman","doi":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90055-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90055-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75618,"journal":{"name":"British journal of diseases of the chest","volume":"82 ","pages":"Pages 205-206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0007-0971(88)90055-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"103879824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D.R. Buchanan , I.D.A. Johnston , I.H. Kerr , M.R. Hetzel , B. Corrin , M. Turner-Warwick
{"title":"Cryptogenic bilateral fibrosing pleuritis","authors":"D.R. Buchanan , I.D.A. Johnston , I.H. Kerr , M.R. Hetzel , B. Corrin , M. Turner-Warwick","doi":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90042-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90042-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We describe four patients with bilateral pleural effusions progressing to diffuse progressing to diffuse pleural thickening for which we have been unable to find any evidence of an infective, embolic or occupational aetiology. In order to avoid confusion with diffuse pleural thickening attributable to asbestos-related disease, the term cryptogenic bilateral fibrosing pleuritis is suggested.</p><p>The patients differed from those with pleural shadowing due to asbestos in that none of them gave a history of asbestos exposure, all were ill, presented with chest pain which was not always pleuritic in character, and had dyspnoea, cough or malaise. They had pleural effusions of variable size, pleural shadowing radiographically and raised sedimentation rates. Computed tomography revealed bilateral extensive pleural thickening in all cases. All four were HLA B44 positive.</p><p>Histology showed that in all cases the pleura was thickned by fibrous tissue. Both layers were affected and the pleural space was often obliterated. Otherwise the plaural surface was covered by organizing fibrin. Focal collections of lymphocytes were often present when the fibrous tissue abutted on the subpleural fat. No asbestos bodies were seen in any of the cases and in one patient electron microscopic fibre counts showed no excess of asbestos.</p><p>Pleural decortication was successful in three patients. In one of these, contralateral disease was successfully controlled with corticosteroids, but the fourth patient has not improved on corticosteroids.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75618,"journal":{"name":"British journal of diseases of the chest","volume":"82 ","pages":"Pages 186-193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0007-0971(88)90042-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14298070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diagnosis and management of respiratory diseases","authors":"Nigel Bateman","doi":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90016-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90016-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75618,"journal":{"name":"British journal of diseases of the chest","volume":"82 ","pages":"Page 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0007-0971(88)90016-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52755882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Residua of Thoracic Trauma","authors":"K.M. Pagliero","doi":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90023-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90023-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75618,"journal":{"name":"British journal of diseases of the chest","volume":"82 ","pages":"Pages 100-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0007-0971(88)90023-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52756212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of nifedipine on bronchial reactivity to inhaled histamine and methacholine: a comparative study in normal and asthmatic subjects","authors":"A.F. Henderson, J.F. Costello","doi":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90091-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90091-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The effect of pretreatment with nifedipine 20 mg sublingually on the bronchoconstrictor response to inhaled histamine and methacholine in asthmatic and normal subjects has been studied. For each agonist the provocation concentration required to produce a 15% fall in FEV<sub>1</sub> (PC15) and a 35% fall in specific conductance (PC35) was determined. In the group of asthmatic subjects the responses to histamine were significantly attenuated by histamine, PC15 increasing from 0.29 mg/ml to 0.68 mg/ml (<em>P</em><0.001) and PC35 increasing from 0.25 mg/ml to 0.58 mg/ml (<em>P</em><0.001). Responses to methacholine showed less modification by nifedipine. PC15 increased from 0.23 mg/ml to 0.32 mg/ml (<em>P</em><0.05). Changes in PC35 were not significant. In the group of normal subjects no attenuation of the response to methacholine was produced by nifedipine but significant increases of PC15 (<em>P</em><0.002) and PC35 (<em>P</em><0.005) were produced by the agent. The results are consistent with nifedipine exerting an effect principally on mediators dependent on external calcium sources for stimulus-contraction coupling in the airways. The magnitude of change in the histamine response of the two groups was similar, suggesting calcium dependent mechanisms are not involved in asthmatic hyper-responsiveness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75618,"journal":{"name":"British journal of diseases of the chest","volume":"82 ","pages":"Pages 374-381"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0007-0971(88)90091-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14209468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of directed coughing in cystic fibrosis","authors":"J. Bain , J. Bishop , A. Olinsky","doi":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90034-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90034-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Supervised directed coughing was compared to conventional physiotherapy (postural drainage, vibration and/or percussion and coughing) in 38 patients with cystic fibrosis aged 9–18 years admitted to hospital with an exacerbation of their pulmonary symptoms Assessment included objective measures of pulmonary functionand sputum characteristics. Both treatment groups showed significant improvement at the end of the 2-week period. When the patients were graded according to their pulmonary disease, those with mild-moderate disease demonstrated a significant improvement in both treatment groups whereas those with severe lung disease showed little improvement with either treatment,</p><p>Directed coughing is as effective as conventional physiotherapy in the management of patients with cystic fibrosis admitted to hospital for treatment of an exacerbation of their pulmonary symptoms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75618,"journal":{"name":"British journal of diseases of the chest","volume":"82 ","pages":"Pages 138-148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0007-0971(88)90034-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14181038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The use of high dose inhaled beclomethasone dipropionate as a means of assessing steroid responsiveness in obstructive airways disease","authors":"A.G. Wardman, F.G. Simpson, A.J. Knox, R.L. Page, N.J. Cooke","doi":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90038-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0007-0971(88)90038-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The use of high dose inhaled beclomethasone dipropionate (BDP) as a means of assessing steroid responsiveness in chronic obstructive airways disease (COAD) was assessed in 22 patients in a study involving three consecutive 2-week periods of placebo, inhaled BDP (1500 μg daily), and oral prednisolone (30 mg daily). Five of the 22 patients were considered steroid responsive following the course of oral corticosteroids and in each case this responsiveness had been identified by inhlaed BDP therapy. It is concluded that high dose inhaled BDP (1500 μg daily) may be used to assess corticosteroid responsiveness in COAD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75618,"journal":{"name":"British journal of diseases of the chest","volume":"82 ","pages":"Pages 168-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0007-0971(88)90038-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14181040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}