COPD: Emphysema
Microbiological airway colonization in COPD patients with severe emphysema undergoing endoscopic lung volume reduction
... with COPD and severe ...of COPD patients with advanced emphysema undergoing eLVR with endobronchial valves at a single German University hospital, ...
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Influence of the type of emphysema in the relationship between COPD and lung cancer
... and COPD with emphysema were characterized by present- ing a higher prevalence of paraseptal emphysema (OR = ...paraseptal emphysema, with respect to those patients who did not present it for ...
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Smoking history and emphysema in asthma–COPD overlap
... Background: Emphysema is a distinct feature for classifying COPD, and smoking history ($10 pack-years) is one of several newly proposed criteria for asthma–COPD overlap ...and emphysema are ...
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A novel CT-emphysema index/FEV<sub>1</sub> approach of phenotyping COPD to predict mortality
... more emphysema and airflow obstruction) of GOLD B and D groups that explain their higher degree of symptoms (compared to A and C ...relevant COPD phenotype. It is unclear what the prevalence of airway or ...
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High prevalence of bronchiectasis in emphysema-predominant COPD patients
... of COPD and bronchiectasis based on available ...between emphysema and bronchiectasis in COPD subjects, further studies on molecular mechanisms are closely ...
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Emphysema versus Chronic Bronchitis in COPD: Clinical and Radiologic Characteristics
... of COPD and the assessment of disease severity and pro- gression [1] ...with emphysema, and more recently attention has turned to the measurement of airway wall dimensions ...of COPD is vital because ...
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Gene expression profile of human lung in a relatively early stage of COPD with emphysema
... needed to explore sex-specific association in the development of emphysema or COPD. Additional gene expression stud- ies that include never smokers and female subjects would improve the RNA-seq analysis of ...
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Influence of pulmonary emphysema on COPD assessment test-oriented categorization in GOLD document
... category B had poorer survival than those in categories A and C, probably due to their higher incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Our present study was cross-sectional in nature, and our results cannot be ...
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Internet access and use by COPD patients in the National Emphysema/COPD Association Survey
... on COPD patients’ Internet access and use [13], we used data from a national survey of COPD patients to evaluate the rela- tionship between patients’ socioeconomic factors, clinical characteristics, ...
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<p>Inhaled Corticosteroids in COPD: Trying to Make a Long Story Short</p>
... moderate COPD) in the attempt to control and avoid the harmful consequences of adaptive immunity on airway remodeling and peribronchiolar alveolar septa damage subsequent to the recruitment and activation of CD4 + ...
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Active smoking and COPD phenotype: distribution and impact on prognostic factors
... with emphysema, and exacerbators with chronic bronchitis), and correlated with disease severity (body mass index, obstruction, dyspnea and exacerbations [BODEx] index and dyspnea grade), quality of life according ...
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The association of Toll like receptor 4 gene polymorphisms with the development of emphysema in Japanese subjects: a case control study
... TLRs are expressed in many cells, including airway epithelial cells, alveolar type II epithelial cells, alveolar macrophages, endothelium, fibroblasts, vascular smooth muscle cells, and T-cells [27]. TLR4s can recognize ...
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New bacterial growth in bronchial secretions after bronchoscopic valve implantation
... severe COPD and emphysema underwent endoscopic valve implantation in the Thoraxklinik University of Heidelberg from January 2011 to December ...severe COPD with a mean FEV 1 of ...
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Comparison of lung capacity change in elderly women
... have COPD (such as chronic bronchial trouble and pulmonary emphysema), research has demonstrated how exercise can be ...for COPD have not been ...
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Relationship between FEV1 and PaO2,PaCO2 in Patients with Chronic Bronchitis
... with COPD (chronic bronchitis and emphysema), in emergency department (during disease exacerbation or in accompany with other diseases) (11,13), or even in emphysematous patients (the association between ...
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The COPD assessment test correlates well with the computed tomography measurements in COPD patients in China
... good instrument to assess the symptoms burden. In the pres- ent study, we demonstrated that the CAT scores in COPD patients increased with the increasing level of emphysema and airway wall thickness ...
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Inducible targeting of IL 13 to the adult lung causes matrix metalloproteinase– and cathepsin dependent emphysema
... with COPD (15–17, 19, 40, ...human COPD with prominent emphysema, enlarged lungs, enhanced pulmonary compliance, mucus metaplasia, and a mixed tissue inflammatory ...the emphysema in these ...
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Impact of COPD on prognosis of lung cancer: from a perspective on disease heterogeneity
... of COPD was associated with the decreased OS of lung cancer (HR = ...both emphysema-predominant phenotype and nonemphysema- predominant phenotype of COPD significantly decreased the OS (HR = ...
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“What are my chances of developing COPD if one of my parents has the disease?” A systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence of co-occurrence of COPD diagnosis in parents and offspring
... a COPD classification definition; 3) if COPD, emphysema, or chronic bronchitis was combined with other respiratory conditions; 4) if data were limited to familial investigation of known genetic ...
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Relationship between vitamin D-binding protein polymorphisms and blood vitamin D level in Korean patients with COPD
... 175 COPD patients from the Korean Obstructive Lung Disease ...Among COPD clinical parameters, vitamin D deficiency was associated with a lower ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 second to forced vital ...
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