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Daily saunas taken by a young man were followed by fever, chills, malaise, dyspnea, cough, and myalgia from six to eight hours later. Symptoms, which were related to pouring water from a sauna bucket over the heating element, progressed to chronic dyspnea and fatigue. Serial serum samples showed precipitin reactions to bucket water and extracts of bucket mold. IgG antibody activity, demonstrated by radioimmunoassay, suggested that Pullularia was a major antigen.
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PMID:Sauna-takers disease. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis due to contaminated water in a home sauna. 98 16

The introduction of bromureides on a large scale in England and Australia has resulted in a major health hazard. Attention is directed to this problem so preventive measures may be taken in this country to discourage their marketing. We recommend that physicians acquaint themselves with the active ingredients of over-the-counter sedatives and cough medications and that they consider the potential risks involved before prescribing bromides in organic combination. We maintain that bromism is not a relic of the past but rather a serious problem in some countries and a potential one in ours. In addition to reviewing the present status of bromide intoxication in the United States and abroad, we report an atypical case of possible bromide intoxication from a water supply in a rural area of the Midwest United States. Because of reports of bromide intoxication in rural areas, we speculate that some of these cases may be secondary to contaminated water supplies.
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PMID:Bromism: recent perspectives. 111 55

A series of 24 adult male patients undergoing thoracotomy were found to have a reduction in their cough pressures in the immediate postoperative period to 29 percent of their preoperative values. Cough pressures still averaged only 50 percent of control values one week following surgery, with slow return toward normal over the ensuing three weeks. Pain associated with the surgical wound appeared to be primary factor in the patients' inability to cough effectively. The degree of impairment appeared to be related to the extent of the procedure, pressures being altered less in those with limited incision thoracotomies. Ultrasonically nebulized water mist was found to be effective in all but one patient in inducing significantly higher cough pressures and more effective sputum expectoration. Its use should be considered as a simple method of inducing more effective coughs in the postoperative patient.
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PMID:Cough dynamics in the post-thoracotomy state. 112 20

Five children (four boys and one girl) with chronic renal failure (CRF) developed congestive heart failure 0.5 to 11 years after the onset of the disease. Their ages were from 4 to 13 years old. They noticed tachypnea, tachycardia, cough, chest anxiety, general fatigue and their chest X-rays showed cardiomegaly with cardio-thoracic ratio (CTR) of from 55 to 63% and pulmonary congestion. Their echocardiograms showed no cardiomuscular hypertrophy, but the dilatation of left ventricular diastolic diameter (LVDd), and the decreased ejection fraction (EF) were observed. They were treated with water restriction, antihypertensive agents, cardiotonics and dialysis. Their clinical symptoms improved promptly, but their cardiomegary and echocardiographic findings improved gradually. The causes of heart failure in these patients seemed to be due to uremia, fluid overload and hypertension. The echocardiographic examination was useful for the management of the children with CRF in heart failure.
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PMID:[Echocardiographic assessment of cardiac function in the children of chronic renal failure with cardiomegary]. 129 69

Patients with Paragonimiasis westermani show a typical ring form or nodular shadow on chest X-ray, cough, sputum, and hemosputum. Recently, case reports of Paragonimiasis westermani, accompanied by pneumothorax and pleural effusion, as for Paragonimiasis miyazakii, have been increasing. Paragonimus westermani often causes an ectopic infection in various organs such as the peritoneal cavity, pleural cavity, pericardium, liver, adrenal gland and brain. Cutaneous paragonimiasis is considered one of the typical forms of ectopic infection in its earlier phase, but a few unexpected cases of cutaneous Paragonimiasis westermani have also been reported. A 68-year old man, who had never eaten fresh-water crab or raw sliced meat of wild boar, noticed subcutaneous induration of the abdominal wall. The induration had been gradually moving upwards and to the right from the infraumbilical region for over 20 days, and then disappeared at the right upper lateral abdominal wall. Eight months later, he developed severe pain in the right lower chest, and a chest X-ray showed right pleural effusion. Laboratory examinations revealed eosinophilia (WBC 3940/mm3, eosinophil 9%), elevated ESR, and an elevated serum total IgE level (5517 IU/ml). Ouchterlony's double diffusion test performed with the patient's serum in agarose showed strong bands toward Paragonimus westermani antigen, compared to Paragonimus miyazakii antigen. Immunoelectrophoresis with the patient's serum showed specific bands toward Paragonimus westermani antigen. This patient was finally diagnosed as having Paragonimiasis westermani infection, and he responded to praziquantel administration. The clinical course of this patient appears to be rare in cases of Paragonimiasis westermani infection. The clinical course of this case resembled some cases of Paragonimiasis miyazakii infection.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[A case of Paragonimiasis westermani with pleural effusion eight months after migrating subcutaneous induration of the abdominal wall]. 138 80

Exposure to machining fluid aerosols in the automotive industry is associated with a variety of respiratory symptoms including cross-shift changes in pulmonary function, cough, asthma, and phlegm. Lubricating and cooling fluids used in machining operations are predominantly water and thus are susceptible to microbial growth. In the present study, the role of endotoxin in the acute pulmonary injury produced by machining fluid aerosols was examined in guinea pigs. Animals were exposed to nebulized water, unused machining fluid, or used machining fluid. At the end of a 3-hr exposure, specific airway conductance (SGaw) was not affected by exposure to the vehicle water, but was decreased in a dose-dependent manner by exposure to aerosols of the used machining fluid. SGaw decreased from preexposure baseline values by 0, 7, and 40% in animals exposed to 1, 10, and 100 mg/m3 used machining fluid, respectively. These exposure levels also produced acute lung injury as evidenced by changes in cellular and biochemical indices in lavage fluid. These adverse respiratory effects may have been due to microbial contamination of the used machining fluid as the aerosol exposures were associated with airborne endotoxin concentrations of 0.3, 1.9, and 5.3 micrograms/m3, respectively. Animals exposed to aerosols of the endotoxin-free unused machining fluid had no statistically significant adverse functional, cellular, or biochemical effects except for a fourfold increase in neutrophils at 100 mg/m3. These results suggest that contamination of machining fluid during use or storage may lead to the adverse respiratory effects of aerosolized machining fluids.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Acute respiratory effects of endotoxin-contaminated machining fluid aerosols in guinea pigs. 139 92

Exercise induced bronchospasm (EIB) commonly occurs several minutes into or following an exercise event. Respiratory heat loss and respiratory water loss have been suspected as the precursor to exercise-induced bronchospasm. Obstructive EIB has been reported in elite Olympic athletes as well as the recreational athlete. Although exercise-induced bronchospasm presents as wheezing, chest tightness, or dizziness during or after exercise, cough post-exercise is a common and an easily detected characteristic of EIB. When exercise induced bronchospasm is suspected in the young athlete, an exercise challenge test should be performed. A 10% or more decrease in the peak expiratory flow rate in the post-exercise period is diagnostic of EIB. Once the diagnosis of EIB has been made, both nonpharmacological and pharmacological interventions are beneficial in reducing the airway responsiveness. Nonpharmacological measures include extensive education and cardiovascular fitness evaluation. Initial pharmacological management should consist of a trial of albuterol inhaler use 15 min prior to exercise. Early identification and treatment of EIB may enhance sports performance as well as enjoyment.
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PMID:Exercise-induced bronchospasm in the young athlete: guidelines for routine screening and initial management. 140 69

In patients with asthma, the respiratory muscles have to overcome the increased resistance while they become progressively disadvantaged by hyperinflation. We hypothesized that increasing respiratory muscle strength and endurance with specific inspiratory muscle training (SIMT) would result in improvement in asthma symptoms in patients with asthma. Thirty patients with moderate to severe asthma were recruited into 2 groups; 15 patients received SIMT (group A) and 15 patients were assigned to the control group (group B) and got sham training in a double-blind group-comparative trial. The training was performed using a threshold inspiratory muscle trainer. Subjects of both groups trained five times a week, each session consisted of 1/2-h training, for six months. Inspiratory muscle strength, as expressed by the PImax at RV, increased significantly, from 84.0 +/- 4.3 to 107.0 +/- 4.8 cm H2O (p < 0.0001) and the respiratory muscle endurance, as expressed by the relationship between Pmpeak and PImax from 67.5 +/- 3.1 percent to 93.1 +/- 1.2 percent (p < 0.0001), in patients of group A, but not in patients of group B. This improvement was associated with significant improvements compared with baseline for asthma symptoms (nighttime asthma, p < 0.05; morning tightness, p < 0.05; daytime asthma, p < 0.01; cough, p < 0.005), inhaled B2 usage (p < 0.05), and the number of hospital (p < 0.05) and sick-leave (p < 0.05) days due to asthma. Five patients were able to stop taking oral/IM corticosteroids while on training and one in the placebo group. We conclude that SIMT, for six months, improves the inspiratory muscle strength and endurance, and results in improvement in asthma symptoms, hospitalizations for asthma, emergency department contact, absence from school or work, and medication consumption in patients with asthma.
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PMID:Inspiratory muscle training in patients with bronchial asthma. 142 51

Levodropropizine is a recently developed, peripherally active antitussive agent which is widely used in clinical practice. In order to obtain further information on the spectrum of activity of this compound in experimental clinical models, a double-blind controlled study was carried out to evaluate the potential effect of the drug against cough and bronchoconstriction induced by inhalation of an ultrasonically nebulized solution of distilled water in patients with obstructive lung disease. Twenty patients were randomly divided into two groups, which received levodropropizine (60 mg t.i.d.) or placebo respectively for 7 consecutive days. Parameters evaluated at baseline and on the last day of treatment included (i) results of respiratory function tests (FEV1, IVC, FVC, TIFF, PEF, MEF75, MEF50, MEF25) performed before the stimulation test with nebulized water; (ii) total number of coughs during a 2-hour period after the stimulation test; (iii) bronchial responsiveness, quantified by calculating the volume of nebulized water required to induce a 20% reduction of FEV1 below the basal level. At pretreatment, the tussive response was very similar in the two groups. A significant decrease in number of coughs (from 34.4 +/- 8.4 at baseline to 15.6 +/- 4.9 post-treatment, p less than 0.01) was observed after administration of levodropropizine, whereas placebo treatment produced no significant effect (number of coughs: 29.6 +/- 4.9 at baseline vs 24.8 +/- 9.6 post-treatment, N.S.). Bronchial responsiveness decreased significantly (compared to baseline) in both treatment groups, without any significant difference between drug and placebo. Respiratory function tests were not significantly affected by either treatment.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Protective effect of levodropropizine against cough induced by inhalation of nebulized distilled water in patients with obstructive lung disease. 142 6

Thirty-eight workers from a factory producing nickel-cadmium and other types of batteries came to us for medical evaluation. They included 21 women and 17 men (seniority 2-20 years, age range 31-63 years), and represented a self-selected subset of 700-900 ever-employed and 200+ recently or currently employed workers in the factory. Thirty-four worked on the nickel-cadmium assembly line. Symptoms and signs included: headache in 34; weakness, fatigue and lassitude in 26; dizziness in 16; pruritus and skin eruptions in 37; gingivitis, teeth loss and caries in 34; nasal congestion, nosebleeds and anosmia in 30; cough, phlegm production, wheezing and shortness of breath in 26; "asthma" in 14; bone pain in 18; urinary frequency, beta 2 microglobulinuria and kidney stones in 17; and sterility or multiple abortions (33) in 8 of 21 women. One additional patient had died from an "amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-like syndrome", while CT scans in six workers revealed brain atrophy. One other worker had leukemia, and two had died from cancer (lung and pancreas). Those who had worked for more than 10 years had more symptoms and signs than shorter-term employees, especially neurological illness, bone pain and urinary tract problems, including beta 2 microglobulinuria. Past blood and urinary cadmium levels were in the range of 1.6-8.7 micrograms/dl and 8-306 micrograms/l, respectively. Our findings indicated that: a) health risks for workers were not confined to the nickel-cadmium assembly line or to older workers, b) hazardous exposures still existed and illness appeared in new workers after a clean-up and intervention program, and c) exposures involved increased risks for renal disease and cancers. Finally, there is a need to control exposures and determine health risks in the full cohort of those ever employed, in the workers' children, and in the surrounding environment (air, ground, water) due to the dumping of waste from the plant.
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PMID:Medical findings in nickel-cadmium battery workers. 142 13


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