PULMONARY FIBROSIS AND EMPHYSEMA
Authors: James Alexander Miller
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1935)

Article1 September 1935PULMONARY FIBROSIS AND EMPHYSEMAJAMES ALEXANDER MILLER, A.M., M.D., F.A.C.P.JAMES ALEXANDER MILLER, A.M., M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-9-3-219 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn the consideration of these chronic pulmonary conditions I propose in the first place to present them not as independent clinical entities but as coexistent conditions mutually dependent upon each other and associated with all chronic lung disease of whatever causation; and secondly, to emphasize the clinical importance of the functional pathological changes associated with these conditions, as distinct from the tissue pathological changes with which their names are usually connected.DEFINITIONSWe might begin this consideration with our definition of these conditions in terms of function.Pulmonary fibrosis we would define as an irreversible failure of the self-cleansing power...Bibliography1. FREUND WA: Über primäre Thoraxanomalien, speziell über die starre Dilatation des Thorax als Ursache eines Lungenemphysems, 1906, S. Karger, Berlin. Google Scholar2. SCHENKER D: Beziehung zwischen starrer Thoraxdilatation und alveolärem Lungenemphysem, Dissertation, 1910, Brin and Co., Basel. Google Scholar3. VAN LEEUWENVAN NIEKERKWELTZ WSJGA: Studien über Atmung und Thoraxform bei Asthma und Emphysem, München. med. Wchnschr., 1933, lxxx, 681. Google Scholar4. LAENNEC RT: Traité de l'auscultation médiate, 1819, J. A. Brosson and J. S. Chaudé, Paris. Google Scholar5. CÉLICE J: L'hypertrophie du poumon, Paris méd., 1929, i, 353-356. Google Scholar6. NEERGAARD K: Beitrag zur Lehre vom Emphysem, Verhandl. d. deutsch. Gesellsch. f. inn. Med., 1930, xlii, 624. Google Scholar7. LUISADA A: Über Lungendynamik, Ergebn. d. inn. Med. u. Kinderh., 1934, xlvii, 92-184. Google Scholar8. COURNANDBROCKRAPPAPORTRICHARDS AHJIDW: Disturbed action of respiratory muscles as a contributory cause of dyspnea. (To be published in the Arch. Int. Med.) Google Scholar9. PANCOASTPENDERGRASS HKEP: Roentgen technic with especial reference to examination to diagnose or exclude silicosis, Jr. Indust. Hyg., 1934, xvi, 165-168. Google Scholar10. FRAY WH: Roentgenologic diagnosis of chronic pulmonary emphysema, Am. Jr. Roentgenol., 1934, xxxii, 11-22. Google Scholar11. BEINTKER H: Die schwere Staublunge in der Versicherungsgesetzgebung, Schriften a.d. Gesamtgebiet d. Gewerbehygiene, Heft 43, 1933. Google Scholar12. CASTEXCAPDEHOURAT MREL: Chronologie et phénoménologie des altérations morbides chez les "cardiaques noirs" de Ayerza, Presse méd., 1934, xlii, 268-272. Google Scholar13. HILBER H: Experimentell erzeugte Lungenregeneration, Verhandl. d. anat. Gesellsch., 1934, xlii, 189. Google Scholar14. ORSÓS F: Das Epithel der Lungenalveolen, Centralbl. f. allg. Pathol. u. path. Anat., 1933, lvii, 81-88. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: New York, N. Y.*Read at the Philadelphia meeting of the American College of Physicians, April 30, 1935.From the Tuberculosis Service of Bellevue Hospital, New York, N. Y. Nextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byLung Surface Tension and Surfactant: The Early YearsCLINICALLY INDETERMINATE PULMONARY FIBROSIS A PATHOLOGIC STUDY 1 September 1935Volume 9, Issue 3Page: 219-233KeywordsEmphysemaLungsPulmonary diseasesPulmonary fibrosis ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 September 1935 PDF downloadLoading ...