Nihon Kyōbu Shikkan Gakkai zasshi
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Nihon Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai Zasshi · Nov 1996
[Effect of on-demand inhalation of dry oxygen on nasal mucociliary clearance].
To determine whether nasal mucociliary clearance is affected by dry oxygen delivered on demand. ⋯ We conclude that using the demand oxygen delivery system with a nasal cannula for 8 hours had no adverse effects on nasal mucociliary clearance.
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Nihon Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai Zasshi · Nov 1996
Case Reports[Acute bronchiolitis due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae and successfully treated with steroids].
A high fever, coughing, stridor, and dyspnea developed in a 52-year-old woman on October 19, 1995. She went to a local clinic and was treated with oral penicillin and intravenous cefpirome. The symptoms worsened, and she was admitted to our hospital on October 26. ⋯ The response to steroids was good. Pulmonary function improved and the arterial PaO2 at the time of discharge was 86 Torr (room air). Use of steroid therapy in the early phase of bronchiolitis obliterans seemed to be effective.
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Nihon Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai Zasshi · Nov 1996
[Importance of interstitial lung disease in collagen vascular disease: analysis of outcome].
We studied length of survival and related clinical findings in 715 inpatients with collagen-vascular diseases (1984 through 1994), the diagnostic Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that patients with polymyositis/dermatomyositis and those with systemic sclerosis did not survive as long as those with other types of collagen-vascular disease. Of the patients who died 37% died of respiratory failure due to interstitial lung disease. ⋯ Among patients with interstitial lung disease, those who died of polymyositis/dermatomyositis did so within 1 year, but those who died of systemic sclerosis lived longer. Interstitial lung disease is an important prognostic factor in collagen-vascular disease, and needs further evaluation.