While imaging with monoplane or biplane TEE, multiple injections of agitated saline solution were injected during cough or Valsalva maneuver to detect flow through a PFO. Platelet aggregation was not inhibited by the treatment in other five inpatients. Each month it features cutting edge clinical investigations in the multidisciplinary specialties of chest medicine, such as pulmonology, cardiology, thoracic surgery, transplantation, sleep and breathing, airways disease, and more. Below is a recent list of 2019—2020 articles that have had the most social media attention. In 12 asthmatic adults with relatively severe exercise-induced asthma, we compared the effect of a new calcium antagonist, PY 108-068, in doses of 75 mg and 150 mg with nifedipine (30 mg) and placebo on resting flow rates and flow rates after exercise. Impact Factor: 8.308 ℹ Impact Factor: 2019: 8.308 The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years. Elsevier.com visitor survey. Examination of the upper airways and bronchial tree was positive for lesions endoscopically visible in 12.6% of cases. The data used in the calculation may not be exhaustive.The implicit issue in the correspondence appears to be the extent to which change in sweat chloride could be used as a primary end point to establish efficacy for regulatory purposes (ie, approval of a drug for marketing). However, the choice of ventilation modalities is not a simple one and depends on many factors, such as efficiency, patient’s tolerance, teams’ experience in the different ventilation techniques, patients’ environment, health-care systems, and also, above all, each patient’s opinion. The procedure used was as follows: (1) bronchoscopy with exploration of the upper airways and bronchial tree, followed by TBNA and immediate cytologic assessment (ICA); (2) at least three TBPB; (3) if TBNA was diagnostic, the procedure was stopped; if not, a second pass with the needle was performed and then the bronchoscope was removed; (4) if the second TBNA was not diagnostic, PCNA with ICA was performed up to a maximum of three needle passes. The impact factor (IF), also denoted as Journal impact factor (JIF), of an academic journal is a measure of the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. Impact Factor: 8.308 ℹ Impact Factor: 2019: 8.308 The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years. There were significant differences (p<0.05) in peak mean systolic velocity and resistive index obtained in the pulmonary arteries, both between normal volunteers and patients and between measurements obtained in the patient's own lung and the transplanted lung. As described in the “Materials and Methods” section, we included only stage I (T1–2N0M0) non-small cell lung cancer patients whose TNM codes were completely recorded in the California Cancer Registry. One-year and 2-year survivals of 40% and 23% are markedly better than the historical 1-year survival of 10%. CHEST Journal. Although all treatment regimens caused some reduction in the 24-h excretion of corticosteroid products, none of the mean values was below the normal ranges. Median survival was 258 days for patients with SCLN (n = 234) and 297 days for patients without SCLN (n = 1136) (p = 0.002). Cox models confirmed that SCLN did not provide any significant additional prognostic information. At 5 years, survival was 0.63 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.58 to 0.68), 0.56 (95% CI, 0.53 to 0.59), 0.49 (95% CI, 0.46 to 0.52), and 0.38 (95% CI, 0.32 to 0.44) for groups A, B, C, and D, respectively.