http://jrd.consultantlive.com The Journal of Respiratory Diseases en Copyright 2009, CMPMedica US Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:00:01 GMT Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:00:01 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://jrd.consultantlive.com/display/article/1145425/1541845?CID=rss Diabetes mellitus is a group of disorders characterized by hyperglycemia and the resulting macrovascular and microvascular complications.<br style="clear:both;"/> Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:00:00 GMT http://jrd.consultantlive.com/display/article/1145425/1479649?CID=rss Despite the recent development of several new therapies, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) remains an incurable disease. Careful monitoring of disease progression is vital to ensuring that patients receive maximal medical therapy before the onset of overt right-sided heart failure. In part 1 of this article, I reviewed the role of the history and physical examination, chest radiography, electrocardiography, echocardiography, and pulmonary artery catheterization. In part 2, I focus on MRI, cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), the 6-minute walk test, and biomarkers. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://jrd.consultantlive.com/display/article/1145425/1405513?CID=rss Nocardia asteroides is a rarecause of pulmonary or disseminatedinfection in immunocompetentpersons. Pleuralcompromise is common, butempyema necessitatis is veryrare. The authors describe anapparently immunocompetentpatient with N asteroides infectionwho had chest wallcompromise mimicking empyemanecessitatis. Tue, 1 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT