Letters to the Editor

Chappell D Rehm M Conzen P . Opioid-induced constipation in intensive care patients: relief in sight? Crit Care 2008;12: 161.

Roberts DJ Banh HL Hall RI . Use of novel prokinetic agents to facilitate return of gastrointestinal motility in adult critically ill patients. Curr Opin Crit Care 2006;12: 295–302.

Gupta RK Newbould RD Mathews PM . Methods of measuring lung water. JICS 2012;13: 209–15.

Lichtenstein D Meziere G Barre O . The comet-tail artifact. An ultrasound sign of alveolar-interstitial syndrome. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1997;156: 1640–46.

Jambrik Z Gargani L Adamicza A . B-lines quantify the lung water content: a lung ultrasound versus lung gravimetry study in acute lung injury. Ultrasound Med Biol 2010;36: 2004–10.

Agricola E Bove T Oppizzi M . “Ultrasound comet-tail images”: a marker of pulmonary edema: a comparative study with wedge pressure and extravascular lung water. Chest 2005;127: 1690–95.

Lichtenstein DA Meziere GA Gepner A . A-lines and B-lines: lung ultrasound as a bedside tool for predicting pulmonary artery occlusion pressure in the critically ill. Chest 2009;136: 1014–20.

Noble VE Murray AF Liteplo A . Ultrasound assessment for extravascular lung water in patients undergoing hemodialysis. Time course for resolution. Chest 2009;135: 1433–39.

Gargani L Lionetti V Picano E . Early detection of acute lung injury uncoupled to hypoxemia in pigs using ultrasound lung comets. Crit Care Med 2007;35: 2769–74.

Picano E Frassi F Mottola G . Ultrasound lung comets: a clinically useful sign of extravascular lung water. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2006;19: 356–63.

Young N Clark D Cook B . The management of antihypertensive-associated angioedema: when necessary, conventional tracheal intubation can be successful. JICS 2012;13: 25–27.

Sabroe RA Black AK . Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angio-oedema. Br J Dermatol 1997;136: 153–58.

Sondhi D Lippmann M Murali G . Airway compromise due to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor-induced angioedema: clinical experience at a large community teaching hospital. Chest 2004;126: 400–04.

Bas M Greve J Stelter K . Therapeutic efficacy of icatibant in angioedema induced by angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors: a case series. Ann Emerg Med 2010;56: 278–82.

Bright P Dempster J Longhurst H . Successful treatment of acquired C1 inhibitor deficiency with icatibant. Clin Exp Dermatol 2010;35: 553–54.

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