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A 25 year old asymptomatic man with a past history of pulmonary tuberculosis presented with a continuous murmur. Selective arteriography revealed a left internal mammary arteriovenous malformation in communication with vessels in the left upper pulmonary lobe. No significant hemodynamic abnormalities were detected. This is the 26th reported case of internal mammary arteriovenous fistula and the 6th with a pulmonary communication. Review of the data in previous cases suggests that surgical indications are limited to symptomatic relief, heart failure during infancy or the possible risk of endarteritis, proximal arterial degeneration or rupture.
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PMID:Internal mammary arteriovenous malformation with communication to the pulmonary vessels. 110 39

An analysis of 500 consecutive pulmonary tuberculosis cases shows that lower lungfield tuberculosis occurs in 6.8 percent of the negroid population studied and therefore shows no racial predelection. The ratio of female to male involvement was 3:1. A clear association with young women and with pregnancy with or without other infections was demonstrated. Affected men were in the much older age group. Some association with diabetes and heart failure were also observed. The initial diagnosis of most of these patients was basal pneumonia or lung abscess. Therefore, the most useful clinical pointers were productive cough with or without haemoptysis unresponsive to various conventional antibiotics. The right base was most favoured and cavitation with fluid levels were frequent. We believe that the aetiological factors would include stress as could occur with pregnancies and poor basal tissue oxygenation due to diminished basal expansion in abdominal distension or cardiac failure.
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PMID:Lower lungfield tuberculosis in a rural African population. 206 90

Case histories of three elderly patients with a malignant lymphoma of the small intestine are described. Case No. 1 involved a 80-year-old male with a diffuse malignant lymphoma of medium size that was associated with a jejunal perforation. On the 64th day after surgery, he died of heart failure during the course of chemotherapy. Case No. 2 was a 76-year-old male with a diffuse malignant lymphoma of medium size in the ileocecum. He left hospital after surgery had relieved his symptoms, although 8 months after he developed active pulmonary tuberculosis during the course of chemotherapy. Case No. 3 involved a 76-year-old female with a diffuse malignant lymphoma of the mixed cell type in the terminal ileum. She died of heart failure complicated by a pulmonary disease on the 36th postoperative day. The therapeutic results of treating the malignant lymphoma in these 3 aged patients were all unfavorable. Thus, it is felt that special care should be taken in treating aged patients with this kind of disease.
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PMID:[Treatment of malignant lymphoma of the small intestine in aged patients over 70]. 230 13

Thanatogenesis of pulmonary tuberculosis has been studied on autopsy material gained in tuberculosis hospitals of Moscow from 1972 to 1992. The leading cause of lethal outcomes was progressive fibrous-cavernous tuberculosis (71.6% in 1992). Disseminated tuberculosis mortality rose two-fold (14.2% in 1992). Death rate for infiltrative tuberculosis reaches now 5.56%. Tuberculous patients die of the progressive disease in 54.94%, of respiratory distress and cardiac insufficiency in 32.72%. Progressive tuberculosis proved to combine with nontuberculous diseases in 71.87% of the cases.
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PMID:[Thanatogenesis of pulmonary tuberculosis based on statistics from tuberculosis hospitals in Moscow]. 817 Aug 99

Nine hundred twenty-five unselected autopsies were investigated for the presence or absence of hyaline peritoneal (splenic or hepatic) plaques, hyaline pleural plaques, asbestos, liver cirrhosis, heart failure, previous peritoneal dialysis or abdominal surgery, chronic peritonitis, splenomegaly, splenic infarcts, and pulmonary or abdominal tuberculosis. Lung asbestos body concentrations were calculated in 570 subjects. Peritoneal plaques were recorded in 163 cases. In both univariate and multivariate analyses, they were associated with cirrhosis, pulmonary nonactive tuberculosis, pleural plaques, and asbestosis. Association with asbestos body counts was also found, with a significant trend. Peritoneal plaques were described long ago in different pathologic conditions, for some of which (cirrhosis and nonactive pulmonary tuberculosis) the association is confirmed by the present analysis. It is suggested that they are significantly associated, moreover, with indicators of asbestos exposure.
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PMID:Hyaline splenic and hepatic plaques. Correlation with cirrhosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, and asbestos exposure. 821 23

Three patients, a man aged 71 and two women aged 47 and 54, were admitted for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cardiac failure. All three had thoracic deformities, owing to earlier pneumonectomy with thoracoplasty because of pulmonary tuberculosis, congenital kyphoscoliosis, and infant poliomyelitis respectively. Such patients are at risk of developing chronic respiratory insufficiency because of chronic alveolar hypoventilation: muscle power decreasing with age gradually fails to meet the increased respiratory labour. Often, the respiratory insufficiency is not noticed because the problems are ascribed to secondary chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or cardiac failure. The first sign of imminent respiratory insufficiency is nocturnal carbon dioxide accumulation. Therapy consists of respiratory assistance at night by positive air pressure ventilation via a nose mask.
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PMID:[Risk of respiratory insufficiency caused by thoracic rigidity]. 921 86

A total of 108 patients with heart failure-complicated disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis were followed up. Fifty eight patients received combined therapy including the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor ramipril in a daily dose of 0.25-0.50 mg for 1.5-2 months. Fifty ramipril-untreated patients comprised a control group. Examinations revealed the benefits of the agent in decompensatory chronic cor pulmonale as improved right ventricular systolic and diastolic functions and health in the patients.
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PMID:[Ramipril treatment of heart failure in disseminated forms of pulmonary tuberculosis]. 1042 Jul 46

61 years old man with 30-years history of ankylosing spondylitis was admitted to hospital because of respiratory and cardiac failure. Chest X-ray and CT scan showed nonspecific inflammation but microbiological diagnosis allowed to establish the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. During antibioticotherapy and antituberculous treatment respiratory failure regressed.
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PMID:[Pulmonary tuberculosis during a course of ankylosing spondylitis]. 1157 4

The renin-angiotension-aldosterone system (RAAS) was studied in 93 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis complicated by chronic heart failure (CHF). Radioimmunoassay was used to determine plasma renin activity (PRA) and serum angiotensin I and aldesterone levels. There was higher RAAS activity, as shown by elevated PRA. RAAS activity decreased during CHF treatment with angiotension-converting enzyme inhibitors (captopril, ramipril, prestarium) and an angiotensin II-receptor blocker (cosaar), which is indicative of the efficiency of CHF treatment.
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PMID:[Activity of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and its impact on the effectiveness of treatment of chronic heart failure in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis]. 1158 51

Two and thirty four patients with pulmonary tuberculosis complicated with chronic heart failure (CHF) were examined to study life quality (LQ) and its changes due to hemodynamic correction. LQ was assessed by the Minnesota Life Heart Failure Quality questionnaire filled in by patients before and after treatment of CHF with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (captopril, ramipril, prestarium) and an angiotensin II-receptor blocker (cosaar) given for 1.5-2 months during chemotherapy for tuberculosis. In patients with pulmonary tuberculosis complicated by CHF, LQ was found to be related to the degree of hemodynamic disorders and to significantly improves with complex treatment of a tuberculous process and with correction of hemodynamic disorders.
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PMID:[Effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and cosaar on quality of life of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and chronic heart failure]. 1176 90


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