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G Archambault

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PubMed1982

Diagnosis and long-term follow-up of major bronchial disruptions due to nonpenetrating trauma.

From 1966 through 1978, 13 patients were treated for major bronchial disruptions due to nonpenetrating trauma. In 10 patients the diagnosis was made early, and operation was carried out in all of them. Four of the 6 patients with main bronchus avulsion had primary repair and all 4 patients with lobar rupture underwent lobectomy. One patient had a pneumonectomy. There was 1 operative death. In 3 patients the diagnosis was made more than a month after the injury. A bronchoplastic repair was done in every patient. All 7 patients who had repair of a transected main bronchus were assessed 2 to 14 years after operation (average, 7 1/2 years). Flow-volume curves on air and air-helium were normal, indicating no major airway obstruction; this finding was confirmed by clinical and bronchoscopic examinations. Pulmonary diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide was also normal in all patients. Volume measurements by closed circuit method and by body plethysmography showed restriction in 1 patient but no major air trapping. Perfusion/ventilation scans showed homogeneous distribution of air and blood flow in the lung.

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West Nile virus surveillance in Connecticut in 2000: an intense epizootic without high risk for severe human disease.

In 1999, Connecticut was one of three states in which West Nile (WN) virus actively circulated prior to its recognition. In 2000, prospective surveillance was established, including monitoring bird deaths, testing dead crows, trapping and testing mosquitoes, testing horses and hospitalized humans with neurologic illness, and conducting a human seroprevalence survey. WN virus was first detected in a dead crow found on July 5 in Fairfield County. Ultimately, 1,095 dead crows, 14 mosquito pools, 7 horses, and one mildly symptomatic person were documented with WN virus infection. None of 86 hospitalized persons with neurologic illness (meningitis, encephalitis, Guillain-Barré-like syndrome) and no person in the seroprevalence survey were infected. Spraying in response to positive surveillance findings was minimal. An intense epizootic of WN virus can occur without having an outbreak of severe human disease in the absence of emergency adult mosquito management.

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