Latest Pulmonology Articles

• Pacemaker-Lead Dislodgement and Cardiac Perforation May 16, 2024
  A 96-year-old woman presented with a 1-day history of pleuritic chest pain 4 days after a pacemaker was implanted for complete heart block. Electrocardiography showed complete heart block.
  Christina Menexi, Mohamed ElRefai
• Intensive Ambulance-Delivered Blood-Pressure Reduction in Hyperacute Stroke May 16, 2024
  In a trial involving 2404 patients with acute stroke and elevated blood pressure, ambulance-delivered systolic blood-pressure reduction did not result in better functional outcomes than usual care.
  Gang Li, Yapeng Lin, Jie Yang, Craig S. Anderson, Chen Chen, Feifeng Liu, Laurent Billot, Qiang Li, Xiaoying Chen, Xiaoqiu Liu, Xinwen Ren, Chunfang Zhang, Ping Xu, Lijun Wu, Feng Wang, Daijun Qiu, Mei Jiang, Yiqian Peng, Chaohui Li, Yiyang Huang, Xiaohui Zhao, Jiye Liang, Yao Wang, Xiangjun Wu, Xiaoyun Xu, Guofang Chen, Dongya Huang, Yue Zhang, Lian Zuo, Guozhao Ma, Yumei Yang, Junjie Hao, Xiahong Xu, Xinli Xiong, Yueyu Tang, Yijia Guo, Jianping Yu, Shuping Li, Song He, Fengkai Mao, Quandan Tan, Song Tan, Nengwei Yu, Ruxiang Xu, Mingwei Sun, Binghu Li, Jiang Guo, Leibo Liu, Hueiming Liu, Menglu Ouyang, Lei Si, Hisatomi Arima, Philip M. Bath, Gary A. Ford, Thompson Robinson, Else Charlotte Sandset, Jeffrey L. Saver, Nikola Sprigg, H. Bart van der Worp, Lili Song, the INTERACT4 investigators*
• Chronic Silicosis May 16, 2024
  A 47-year-old man was incidentally found to have diffuse nodular opacities on chest radiography. He had worked in a quarry for more than 30 years.
  Shan Kai Ing, Sze Shyang Kho