Annals ofCritical Care Medicine

Volume: 6 - Number: 56 - September 15, 2006

Outstanding

Inhaled Nitric Oxide after Lung Transplantation: No More Cosmesis?

Hospital and Long-term Outcome After Tracheostomy for Respiratory Failure

Effect of Three Wound Dressings on Infection, Healing Comfort, and Cost in Patients With Sternotomy Wounds: A Randomized Trial

Early Alterations in Neutrophil Activation Are Associated with Outcome in Acute Lung Injury

Acute lung injury

Early Alterations in Neutrophil Activation Are Associated with Outcome in Acute Lung Injury

Airway obstruction

Extrathoracic Expiratory Flow Limitation in Obesity and Obstructive and Restrictive Disorders: Effects of Increasing Negative Expiratory Pressure

Asthma

Fully Automated Assessment of Inflammatory Cell Counts and Cytokine Expression in Bronchial Tissue

Cardiology

Deep Vein Thrombosis Among Patients Entering Cardiac Rehabilitation After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Critical Care

Hospital and Long-term Outcome After Tracheostomy for Respiratory Failure

Editorial

Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Pathophysiologic States: The Substance Behind the Gas

Inhaled Nitric Oxide after Lung Transplantation: No More Cosmesis?

K. Cheyne-Stokes Respiration

Influence of Cheyne-Stokes Respiration on Cardiovascular Oscillations in Heart Failure

Laboratory and animal investigations

Differential-Display Polymerase Chain Reaction Identifies Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide-Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase as an Ischemia/Reperfusion-Regulated Gene in Cardiomyocytes

Effects of Hyperchloremic Acidosis on Arterial Pressure and Circulating Inflammatory Molecules in Experimental Sepsis

N. Neonatal Pulmonary Hypertension

Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor-1 and Neonatal Compensatory Lung Growth after Exposure to 95% Oxygen

Occupational and environmental lung disease

Decreased Respiratory Symptoms After Intervention in Artificially Ventilated Offices in São Paulo, Brazil

Pleura

Clinical Implications of Appearance of Pleural Fluid at Thoracentesis

Preliminary reports

Increased Exhaled Nitric Oxide Following Autologous Peripheral Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation: A Potential Marker of Idiopathic Pneumonia Syndrome

Rx at Month

Dysphagia After Heimlich Maneuver

Sleep and Breathing

Lack of Efficacy for a Cervicomandibular Support Collar in the Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Surgery

Effect of Three Wound Dressings on Infection, Healing Comfort, and Cost in Patients With Sternotomy Wounds: A Randomized Trial

Effects of Additional Minocycline Pleurodesis After Thoracoscopic Procedures for Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax

Long-term Beneficial Effect of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients With COPD

Transplantation

Functional Analysis in Single-Lung Transplant Recipients: A Comparative Study of High-Resolution CT, 3He-MRI, and Pulmonary Function Tests