Medical audit in North America.

Abstract

reports do mention hyperventilation with a low Pco2.Hyper- ventilation was the outstanding feature in this patient and could not be attributed to any mechanical abnormality or hypoxaemia.The whole functional picture resembles that attributed to disease of the small pulmonary arteries by Nadel and his colleagues,8 but I think Dr.Evans has conclusively excluded the possibility in the present case.DR.FLETCHER: About the honeycomb pattern-I would have thought this was a very uncommon result of chronic bronchitis.DR.J. SILVER (8): Are steroids of use in these patients ?DR.