airways disease
A Study on Electrocardiographic and Echocardiographic changes in Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease
... obstructive airways disease is the most common indication for lung transplantation world ...obstructive airways disease 43 ...vascular disease who have exhausted medical ...
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Immune modulation of allergic airways disease
... Allergic airways disease is clinically characterized by airways obstruction, inflammation and bronchial hyperresponsiveness (Bochner et ...the disease is mediated by networks of cells, ...
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RAD: Reactive Airways Disease or Really Asthma Disease?
... A resident presenting on rounds introduces her patient as “a 15-month- old with RAD. He’s had 2 days of wheezing, and we started albuterol and steroids.” A presentation like this is frequently heard on pediatric units ...
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Anthracotic Airways Disease: Report of 102 Cases
... serious airways distortion and should be regarded as an independent cause of disabling pneumopathies with the resultant ...the airways by various microorganisms set the stage for repeated acute ...chronic ...
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Small airways disease: time for a revisit?
... Landmark pathological studies with high radiation dose micro-computed tomography (CT) analysis have provided evidence that the loss of small airways is an early event pre- ceding the development of emphysema. With ...
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The contribution of L-selectin to airway hyperresponsiveness in chronic allergic airways disease
... Method: A chronic ovalbumin-induced allergic airways disease model was applied to L- selectin- deficient mice and wild-type control mice. The development of airway inflammation was assessed by examining ...
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Is pesticide exposure a cause of obstructive airways disease?
... As many pesticides, especially those used on crops, are applied by spraying, exposure through inhalation is of particular concern, in addition to dermal exposure to the operator. It is well recognised that pesticides can ...
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<em>Haemophilus influenzae</em> and smoking-related obstructive airways disease
... symptomatic disease evidenced as chronic cough and sputum (chronic bronchitis, CB) and/or recurrent episodes of acute wheezy bronchitis, and/or late onset reversible airways disease (‘intrinsic ...
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Association between functional small airways disease and FEV1 decline in COPD
... of disease severity represented proportionally and with stringent spirometry and CT quality ...for disease progression, particularly in mild to moderate ...on disease distribution and relative ...
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Aspects of the pharmacotherapy of airways disease
... Patients with severe asthma or chronic obstructive airways disease are often administered 3-agonist drugs in combination with ipratropium bromide, a quaternary anti-cholinergic drug O'Dr[r] ...
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Airways Disease: Phenotyping Heterogeneity Using Measures of Airway Inflammation
... Asthmatic smokers have been shown to have reduced eosinophils and increased neutrophils and interleukin-8 (IL-8) in sputum compared with asthmatic nonsmokers, 45 features similar to those observed in NEA. However, the ...
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Epigenetics and airways disease
... COPD), disease fluctuations and might pro- vide an explanation for the phenotypic discordance often observed among monozygotic twins (70% for multiple sclerosis, 30% to 50% for diabetes, and 25% for asthma) ...
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The pathology of small airways disease in COPD: historical aspects and future directions
... Histopathological evidence of SAD in COPD gained momentum in the mid-twentieth century; Table 1 lists the major findings of studies spanning from 1953 to 1971 [7–14]. A striking feature of these studies is the ...
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Current concepts: host–pathogen interactions in cystic fibrosis airways disease
... with disease severity ...lower airways in CF ...acute disease in a sample population that was largely sputum culture positive for Pseudomonas aeruginosa ...CF airways has been found to be ...
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Eosinophil activation in a mouse model of allergic airways disease
... XII ABBREVIATIONS AHR airways hyperreactivity APC antigen presenting cell BALF bronchoalveolar lavage fluid BSA bovine serum albumin CCR C-C chemokine receptor cDNA complementary DNA Cfe[r] ...
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Vitamin D in respiratory diseases
... obstructive airways disease such as COPD and asthma, but it is definitely beneficial in TB, and new evidence is mounting that it may be useful in patients with acute respiratory tract infections, ...
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The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
... List of abbreviations CONSORT: Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials; COPD: Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease; CRTU: Clinical Research Trials Unit; CVD: Cardiovascular Disease; DH[r] ...
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Midkine Is Expressed and Differentially Processed during Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Associated with Staphylococcus aureus Infection
... the airways during acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) but more commonly recognized as a cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia ...the airways were investigated, ...
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United airway disease: current perspectives
... lower airways are considered a unified morphological and functional unit, and the connection existing between them has been observed for many years, both in health and in ...airway disease in the present ...
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Lung function and energy expenditure in infants with cystic fibrosis
... Lung volumes were measured using a Jaeger body plethysmograph (Wuerzburg, Germany). The subject was seated in the body plethysmograph and breathed normally through the mouthpiece. The door of the plethysmograph was ...
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